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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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[โ€“] YourHuckleberry@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have seen HDDs advertised as WI (write intensive), RI (read intensive), and MU (mixed use). The advertising says that the WI drives will last longer under write intensive loads. I don't know how much truth there is to that.

[โ€“] mnvoronin@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

That's for SSDs which is a different thing.