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It's A Digital Disease!

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Leave HDDs off during startup (zerobytes.monster)
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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/RunEffective3479 on 2025-04-16 01:18:17.

I have several large HDDs in one of my machines, and I use backblaze to back the whole thing up for cheap (>100tb). But I rarely access these drives, once or twice a week at most. Is there a way with a windows system to just have them sit spin down until I need them? And be able to restart the pc regularly without having these HDDs spin up? This seems like a good way to keep them healthy, rather than having them spinning all the time and spinning down and then up again every time I reboot. TYIA

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