Is turning off hard disks harmful?

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Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/17228/is...

Question links:
[Minimizing hard disk drive failure]: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Minimizing...
[S.M.A.R.T.]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T....
[Thermal stress relief with Power management]: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/605...
[Computers and Monitors - When Should I turn them off?]: https://web.archive.org/web/201612130739...

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#harddrive #powermanagement

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