On Tuesday 02 Feb 2016 09:38:33 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > The harddisk in question is this little external > USB hd, which is used for data storage only. > It is by far no server disk or anything else > high-end-24/7-thingy... ;) > > Best regards, > Meino
I was running a 350GB WD Passport plugged into an embedded SoC device, for 6 years non-stop, except when power cuts caused the embedded device to stop/crash, or when I rebooted it (less than a dozen times a year). When it died on me I replaced it with another WD Passport, this time 1TB. It's been running for 1.5 years so far. I have never interfered with whatever its own USB controller wants to do with its spin cycles. I never saw a reason to. -- Regards, Mick
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