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.

  • @KalciferOPEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    I don’t know, but ideally that data would be cached in RAM.

    Not feesible, unfortunately, if we are talking about multiple terabytes of data.

    Maybe if you used intelligent tiered storage with a flash tier it could reduce wear and access times.

    Could you clarify what you mean?

    A surveillance camera PVR is writing 24/7 which is more intense, and those drives still last plenty long.

    That’s a fair point; however, I have seen special hard drives exactly for this purpose.

    • Possibly linuxEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      I would go with ZFS via Truenas. It makes the setup pretty simple and it will have all the benefits of zfs

    • @[email protected]English
      1•1 year ago

      Torrents are never equally in demand. A large amount of ram could maybe cache the majority of reads, even to a multi-TB array.