We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.
It's fine. Spinning up down problem is over thought by too many people. The only time you have an issue is when your power settings are so aggressive they spin the drive down after a few minutes of inactivity causing thousands of spin cycles.
A commanded power down is different from a power loss power down because in the latter heads are parked before the power down event and the drive doesn't need to use the spinning platter as a flywheel generator.
I had a 8tb 5400rpm drive lying around and thought, why not put it in my sound dampened win system.
Windows 10 spins the disk up every 5 minutes, with absolutely no reason and then stops it again. It would be great if it kept spinning but the startup sound is so noticable that I had to ditch it out of the system, it was beyond annoying
DHer's favorite: put the hard drives in a NAS!
Have you already tried disabling Fast Boot?