whats more harmful .

[noobbuilder]

hi

whats more harmful to the longevity of the drive .(my pc stays pretty cool internally w/lots of fans and power consumption doesnt bother me)

the hard drive will be used most of the day mainly for storage will be tons of writes throughout the day but also maybe used for the occasional gaming that wont fit on my ssd's and watching videos off of at night.

 

is it more harmful to let a wd green spin down every 8 seconds (factory setting) or use the wdidle3 tool and to turn it off the spin down ?

 

thanks

 

 

[Altecice]

Leave the Greens to do there own thing, the firmware has InteliSpin technology allowing it to change spin speed/stop when required.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

Hard Drives are pretty smart nowadays, they basically monitor themselves through S.M.A.R.T and automatically report to you any imminent failure.

[noobbuilder]

ok i just thought that it spinning down 100 times a day would maybe be harder on the drive than just leaving on all the time .

[Coaxialgamer]

Let the drive do its own thing. Slower 5400 rpm drives are ideal for frequent writes, but i would've recommended a wd red instead of a green.