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Does nonstop reading from a hard drive reduce its lifespan? (self.sysadmin)

submitted 1 year ago by Kalcifer to c/sysadmin

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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] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Use zfs with plenty of ram. The ram cache with help with speed and reliability

Just out of curiosity, why are you setting up a seedbox in a enterprise environment?

[–] Kalcifer 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The ram cache with help with speed and reliability

Are you inferring that the torrents would be stored in ram? That would not be feesible with large amounts of data.

Just out of curiosity, why are you setting up a seedbox in a enterprise environment?

What do you mean? What enterprise environment?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is a sysadmin sub

[–] Kalcifer 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah, sorry about that. That's why I mentioned the 3rd paragraph in my post; I wasn't sure if this was the correct place for this post - I wasn't sure where else to go.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That makes more sense in context

Next time I would post on [email protected]

[–] Kalcifer 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Next time I would post on [email protected]

Thank you for letting me know!