The drive is not used constantly. That is the drive heads and actuators are not moving. It's just spinning. If spinning only, a hard disk can last many years. The last oldy I removed had been in the server for 10 years. The only reason it was removed was the size was 1 gigabyte...
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I attached an external USB hard drive, 250GB, and it keeps running, stays warm and I am concerned. Can it be turned down when not in use. I only have files stored on it that are not being used constantly.

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