backup drives–need booting up evey once in a while?

[Shane Ross]

Drives are mechanical…they need to be spun up every now and then, or they can get damaged.

Shane

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[Goro Toshima]

hey shane,

thanks for the info…

can you tell me how often should i be spinning the drives?

thanks.

goro

[Alan Okey]

https://www.larryjordan.biz/articles/lj_hard_disk_warning.html

[Scott Sheriff]

Hi,
Here is a something you might be interested in. A dock for esata HD. Should make spinning up stored HD quick and easy.

https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/NewerTech/Voyager/Hard_Drive_Dock

Scott Sheriff
Director
SST Digital Media
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.com