Comment on v2.0.0: Stable Release of Immich (complete with Merch and DVD)
artyom@piefed.social 2 days agoit gets to be in sleep mode for 8-10 hours once or twice per day, which I’d assume is better for its life expectancy.
It’s actually the opposite.
ook@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
How so?
oranges_in_my_a55@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Spinning up and down puts parts under more stress than simply spinning constantly, assuming vibrations are minimal. Basically repeated changes in velocity are bad for mechanical parts, compared to just spinning at a constant rate.
ook@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
Thank you for giving an actual answer. But this makes me wonder, there must be some middle ground where spinning it down is not worse than keeping it running. E.g. only spinning down and up once a day or once every few hours, is there any data for that you know of?
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Hard drives are so variable and failures so unpredictable, I bet you can’t find that information. Most of the actual data about hard drive failures, like Backblaze’s reports, are for drives that don’t spin down.
That said, spin-down has always been used for saving power, not drive lifetime. I would generally assume spinning down never extends lifetime. Even in the case of an external hard drive you plug in once a month - it is very likely going to fail earlier than the drive spinning 24x7.
Also, I wouldn’t shy from keeping the database on the same, fast storage as the OS, even if that’s flash. Move to an external SSD when you can. HDDs have such long seek times.
GraveyardOrbit@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Hard disks are designed to do one thing and that’s spin, keeping a disk running 24/7 is the best case scenario for it’s longevity
artyom@piefed.social 2 days ago
It is worse for life expectancy.
ook@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
Cool beans.