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Power costs vary a lot around the world, depending on where OP lives every little saving can help.
Constantly turning it on/off will probably kill the disk faster than the power savings can make up for it, compared to just having it idle when not actively used.
Consumer harddisks are made to be spinned up and down occasionally. Don't do it every five minutes... But I've been doing it for years and years with my server that spins up the disks once or twice a day, once I access some of my archived files. And it's perfectly fine.
The hdd spin on once every night for backup, then off after a bit by the timeout.
That should not be a critical issue.
Yeah, most PCs get turned on and off like once per day. For example at most offices or at home. That's perfectly within normal use.