often parks heads in the event that the disk is not a system disk. when idle, it parks its heads every 2-3 minutes. the last one and a half (st1500dm003) lived at 14 months paired with ssd. conclusion: this applies to the entire line of hard drives from seagete: it is only suitable as a system disk + file storage. not in any way as a non-system disk. Otherwise, bury all the information. like this!
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