Power down disk drive or not - when used two or three times per day

[Colin Law]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 at 16:44, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> So I can only concur with Ralf that at least constantly running drives are
> mostly very reliable.

That is certainly true, but also (for me at least) they have also been
very reliable when being powered up and down a few times a day.

I haven't been able to find any authoritative articles on how on/off
cycles affect the life, so it is very difficult to know how much they
do affect it.

Colin