Hard drive spinning for 12 hours: bad?

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mornelithe on 09 June 2015

Turkish said:

So I'm copying content worth 1TB to my new hdd and it'll take 10 to 12 hours.

Will either HDD be damaged if they continuously transfer data for that long?

Not at all. It's actually worse for HDD's to allow them to spool down (during sleep mode), than it is to allow them to constantly be running.

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