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Do you let your HDD go to sleep during operation?

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So what is your take on this pretty old topic? Do you let your mechanical drive go to sleep or not?

  • Let it sleep

  • NO SLEEP

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rtwjunkie said:
Yes, they were extremely aggressive with their sleep state, causing premature failure.
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Regeneration said:
I still have working WD Green drives on 2 systems.

With a small tool (WDIDLE3), its possible to disable the aggressive head parking feature, and save the drive from killing itself.
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the only WD green still working for me is the 24/7 one from my NAS, that i used WDIDLE3 on to fix that stupid timer - all the ones i left at stock have given smart errors or failed outright
 
My HDD's "sleep" only when I shut down my PC. The problem is that I have to access files on my HDD's far too often to let them sleep and than wake/restart. I think that such process is going to wear-out HDD much faster. I also never put my PC to sleep, but rather leave it running if I plan to return quickly (eg. in 1 hour) or shut it down if I'm going somewhere or won't return for at least 1,5 or more hours.
 
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