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Regarding video game consoles with internal HDDs, do we know if they benefit from any sort HDD maintenance? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Like, should I be booting them up once every few months, keeping them plugged in, running any sort of database rebuilding program like Sony consoles have, or pulling the drives and using DiskFresh on them every few years? I'm assuming the manufacturers didn't really plan for longevity beyond the 5-6 year console cycle so I don't know if they'd be utilizing any of the built-in tools HDDs have and I'm trying to think of how to do any sort of HDD preventative maintenance on them.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

DiskFresh sounds like placebo-ware.

You can benefit from replacing spinning HDDs with SSDs, or just newer HDD, but other than that there isn't much much that you can do to actually prolong the lifespan of them.