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Normal 7200 rpm HDD spin up time?

lafrente
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First time I am using a 7200 rpm HDD. On my laptop's 5400 rpm HDD's, I always saw the spin up time around 1500 ms. This new drive takes almost 2x the time to spin up. I know it is spinning up to 7200 rpm, but is this normal?

 

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That looks pretty standard for a desktop drive spin up time. Keep in mind that not only is your laptop's drive running at a lower RPM, it's probably physically smaller. Laptops use 2.5 inch drives, but most desktop drives are 3.5 inch drives with heavier (and often more numerous) platters.

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Entirely depends on the drive model, most likely normal since it's not complaining. 

Makes sense it's longer since it's faster, although that doesn't necessarily mean much.

I have drives that take 10 seconds to spin up. 

 

 

 

 

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27 minutes ago, lafrente said:

Ya'll can share your HDD spin up time?

The numbers wouldn't mean anything unless people are using the exact same drive that you are. Different drives behave differently based on the components they're made of, how they're designed to operate, and their physical design characteristics. 

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27 minutes ago, BondiBlue said:

The numbers wouldn't mean anything unless people are using the exact same drive that you are. Different drives behave differently based on the components they're made of, how they're designed to operate, and their physical design characteristics. 

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1 hour ago, lafrente said:

Ya'll can share your HDD spin up time?

I have two spinning disks in my gaming desktop, a WD Gold 22 TB, and a WD Gold 18 TB:

 

The 22 TB:

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The 18 TB:

wd18tbsmart1.jpg

 

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On 12/23/2022 at 1:00 AM, OhioYJ said:

I have two spinning disks in my gaming desktop, a WD Gold 22 TB, and a WD Gold 18 TB:

 

The 22 TB:

wd22tbsmart1.jpg

 

The 18 TB:

wd18tbsmart1.jpg

 

Mine is WD too, and there is quite the difference (10x). But so far it works normally at least. Thank you for the input. 

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SMART values aren't really standardized, so sometimes they're multi-byte values combining several things, so non-zero just because there's something else mingled in. Example:

https://forums.unraid.net/topic/86337-are-my-smart-reports-bad/#comment-800888

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