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Does leaving the harddisk only connected to the psu for sometime damage it

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Does leaving the harddisk only connected to the psu for sometime damage it, while the sata cable is disconnected 

need to remove hdd for sometime

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no.

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34 minutes ago, 300DaysToGTA6 said:

Does leaving the harddisk only connected to the psu for sometime damage it, while the sata cable is disconnected 

need to remove hdd for sometime

Not at all.

 

The only long-term issue is that you'll be putting power-on time on the drive for no reason. It's inconsequential in the grand scheme of things, but if it's going to be disconnected for a while and you're in there anyway, you might as well unplug both the data and power cables.

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6 minutes ago, da na said:

No, it just leaves the drive spinning and not reading - same as if the drive is connected to SATA data but the system isn't using data on it.

It doesn't spin. It's simply idle

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5 minutes ago, DoctorNick said:

It doesn't spin. It's simply idle

I disagree - if it doesn't receive a signal from the computer to spin down (which would happen over the SATA data connector) or have its own built-in circuitry to spin down on idle, it'll stay rotating.

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