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  • Spin up old hard drives to keep them working?

    Posted by Dustin Parsons on February 10, 2017 at 6:14 pm

    I’ve heard that hard drives break down faster if you don’t spin them up occasionally. I have a couple external hard drives that I only need to connect to my computer about every 6 months and was wondering if just plugging them in and adding a file or 2 is enough to keep them from degrading quickly or do I need to run a program that forces them to scan all files? Thanks!

    Dustin Parsons replied 9 years, 3 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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