Put drives in standby

[chris mallia]

Hi I have a home server running windows 8.1 and have seagate 4tb drives, what I am really confused is should I put the drives to sleep when not in use cos of energy savings? and if I do it the thing that worries me is that I would kill the drives. The drives are in a pool using stablebit drivepool thanks regards

 

[ahnilated]

Normally hard drives fail on the spin up. Servers keep the HDD's running constantly and if they are running for years and then shut down there is a good chance the drives won't spin back up. This is why they usually only reboot the servers not shut them off for an hour and restart them.

 

[chris mallia]

Hi thanks for reply so what is your suggestion sleep or not to sleep thanks ?

 

[ahnilated]

I would say don't put them to sleep, they don't use much power just spinning while idle.

 

[ThePCEnthusiast]

ahnilated is right. don't turn them to sleep, most specially hibernate. I had a very bad experience with Seagate drives before.