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Does nonstop reading from a hard drive reduce its lifespan? (lemmy.world)

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

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I was thinking of setting up a seedbox. Seeding will mean that the hard drive is being read from virtually non-stop. Is it fair to say that hard drives are designed for this? Or would this reduce the operational life-span of the hard drive?

For example, I was trying to find some spec in the Seagate Barracuda hard drive specifications document, but I wasn't able to find anything specific to this (or perhaps I just missed it).

I'm not exactly sure if this is the right community to post this, so let me know if there's a better place for it to go.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, but the number of hours they can withstand these reads is rather insane. I've seen SAS level drives with millions of hours of runtime and no bad blocks. They are pretty robust these days!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hard drives are quite reliable these days. According to the Backblaze stats, the annualized failure rate for modern drives is only about 1.5%. And these guys beat the living shit out of their drives.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks a bunch for that link! That's a really useful resource!