See spinny on Wiktionary
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"ref": "2023 August 8, umeng2002, “Windows 'auto turn off hard disk' setting - enable or disable?”, in TechPowerUp, archived from the original on 17 Dec 2024:",
"text": "I always turned it off when I had spinnies. Bearings wear the most when you change rotational speed. If you keep the rotational speed constant, they last a very very long time.",
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"ref": "2023 September 7, serverboy, “Drive Spin Down Query”, in TrueNAS, archived from the original on 14 Mar 2026:",
"text": "My server will be used to store PLEX content and offer iSCSI to my VMWARE hosts but those will be from NVME drives which. So the spinnies will just be doing SMB shares.",
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"text": "And if your computer doesn't have ram, it defaults to swap disk- which on an SSD is fast, but on a spinny is slow.",
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