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Not an expert of hard drives, but the few things i've ever learned about maintenance says this:
>every system has a life time
>every system has high probability to break at birth due to stuff like being factory defective or some other issue (see pic related)
>at the end of its life any machine gets exponentially more faulty (see pic related)
>the more this machine is used, the more likely it is to break
>the more load you add, like overclocking CPUs or make you car's engine run fast all the time, the more likely it is to break since you stress it
>the more complex the system is, the more likely it is to break, simple machines will just last longer
So if you take into account all the ESL europoor shit i wrote above, assuming any part responsible for the drive to startup is used over and over again, then it is more likely for THAT part to die just to give the rest of your hdd parts a longer lifespan.

The thing is, if the manufacturer produces hdd for the average joe turning his pc off every night they probably took this into account, if they say it lasts 5 years, then it just last 5 years... unless the drive is for server applications (where it's rarely turned off).

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