Does nonstop reading from a hard drive reduce its lifespan? - Lemmy.world

I was thinking of setting up a seedbox. Seeding will mean that the hard drive is being read from virtually non-stop. Is it fair to say that hard drives are designed for this? Or would this reduce the operational life-span of the hard drive? For example, I was trying to find some spec in the Seagate Barracuda hard drive specifications document [https://www.seagate.com/www-content/datasheets/pdfs/3-5-barracudaDS1900-11-1806US-en_US.pdf], but I wasn’t able to find anything specific to this (or perhaps I just missed it). I’m not exactly sure if this is the right community to post this, so let me know if there’s a better place for it to go.