NAS Rated HDD Questions

[JacobsPhotography]

Hello all!

I have recently created my first home NAS for Plex and data backup.  I have never used a NAS or HDD for one before and I had a few questions about them.

My system is a Synology DS920+ with 4 Seagate Exos 14TB Seagate drives split into 2 volumes with two drive each running RAID 1 so each volume has about 12.8TB of space.

 

My question if for these drives I understand they are rated to run 24/7 with little issue and be ok in close proximity to each other however is it safe to turn they system off occasionally when I am out of town?  I know with a  car the hardest time for the engine is on startup when cold is this also true for HDD's in general or even the Exos line being Helium filled?  I want to use the drives as long as possible.  Any advise or insight is greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks

[Oshino Shinobu]

Yeah it's fine, they're not really any more susceptible to damage from spin up/down cycles than normal desktop drives, they can handle it just the same, but with additional features like vibration dampening and TLER.