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I think that's not necessarily true. I think spinning 24/7/365 has its downsides too, higher temperatures and others I'm less certain about.
because you'll often shut it down while someone would be using it. and then it can spin up immediately. the processes accessing it would probably hang for half a minute or such.
there is a better solution, hd-idle, as said in the other response