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Does nonstop reading from a hard drive reduce its lifespan? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by Kalcifer@lemmy.world to c/sysadmin@lemmy.world
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I was thinking of setting up a seedbox. Seeding will mean that the hard drive is being read from virtually non-stop. Is it fair to say that hard drives are designed for this? Or would this reduce the operational life-span of the hard drive?

For example, I was trying to find some spec in the Seagate Barracuda hard drive specifications document, but I wasn't able to find anything specific to this (or perhaps I just missed it).

I'm not exactly sure if this is the right community to post this, so let me know if there's a better place for it to go.

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[–] thorbot@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, but the number of hours they can withstand these reads is rather insane. I've seen SAS level drives with millions of hours of runtime and no bad blocks. They are pretty robust these days!