Silly question

[apaar123]

This is  a very silly question I know and sorry for that but it would be great if you can help me. I wanted to ask that is it possible that I use only 1 hard drive in my nas at a time such that other drives don't rotate which might decrease the rate of failure or should i just remove the hard disk I don't want to use and keep that data safe? 

[themctipers]

you can, and it should automatically do that with freenas (and WD green drives do this also)

 

assuming the data is only on that one drive 

[apaar123]

28 minutes ago, themctipers said:

you can, and it should automatically do that with freenas (and WD green drives do this also)

 

assuming the data is only on that one drive 

Ohh ok that's good to know