u/OkAd7789

TL;DR: Will I ruin my HDD by keeping it plugged in or is only an SSD good for that?

I'm not that tech-savvy, so I'm wondering about it constantly spinning/being "in use". I'm including all the detail I can think of that might be relevant. It's nearly full if that matters. MBP 16" M4 Pro (14/20/48/1TB) driving and permanently connected to the display via TB5.

It's my movie library and has TBs of video to be edited, so I'll be transferring, deleting and adding new 2-8GB files very regularly, and deleting 12GB files semi-regularly.

Currently it's in a drawer with a Cable Matters TB5 cable (a short one), although I know the drive will be the speed bottleneck. I want to check I won't damage it or noticeably speed up degradation by just keeping it plugged in.

Looking at the drive specs will I need to transfer videos to the Mac to watch smoothly, and more importantly to stabilise/export 10-12GB video files in GyroFlow and export/edit in Final Cut Pro without losing performance?

I've cut out everything but the numbers and history (although what Bruce wrote was fascinating and the email he sent out with further detail was a great read). They just sold for $20,500 and I don't see how that's even possible.

"BOTH the style A one-sheet AND the style B one-sheet, both with full art by master illustrator Henry Clive. They originated from the collection of Charles Dyas, who was one of the very first movie poster collectors. He ran movie theaters starting in the late 1910s, and he kept posters that he especially liked, and he never sold his collection! He passed away in the late 1980s and in 1990 the best of his collection was sold at Christie's East. These two posters were sold together, and sold for $18,150. The buyer reconsigned them to Christie's in 1997, and they sold for $29,900. The person who bought them passed away and now these posters are being re-offered again for the third time, but they are the very same pair of posters that auctioned the other two times. When adjusted for inflation, the prior sales are around $45,000 and $62,000 today."

I know you need two bidders to drive the price up and that obviously didn't happen here, but they sold for 2/3 of what they sold for 30 years ago! They're nearly 40% older than they were last time they sold.

Help me understand this. It's not like '20s stuff was all the rage in 1997 and now it's not trendy. I watched a one-sheet for the '26 sequel sell for $33,000 in 2024. A horizontal one-sheet (extremely unusual but in poor condition) sold for £19,335 in 2023. These two that just sold haven't lost any of their condition. $10,000 each: sold. Were there no collectors or investors watching who saw they were going for a song and thought it would be stupid not to bid at that price?

Congratulations to Ha on getting the most insane bargain I've seen. It's way above my price range but you'd have to get to $40,000 at least before you put any serious thought into how far you're going to bid. You'd bid $20,000 just to weed out the non-serious folk.

Sorry for the ramble/rant - I watch these closing bids on exciting items like they're my sports teams, refreshing three windows on two screens like I've got money on them myself.

https://preview.redd.it/id8pogp63mch1.jpg?width=1142&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6c9b6e561b00346a10916be58d566a7feba8ca10

Auto-renew bastards!