[DUG] [Off topic] hard disk

[Kyley Harris]

I think it will depend more on your useage than its internal or external
location.. If it overheats in the internal, then its life is going to be
short, but if you leave it in an external box, sitting on a sunny desk, (or
knock it off the desk by accident :-p) then its life is also going to be
less than good.

I've got plenty of external drives which are all lasting very well.. biggest
hassle is just the slower access compared to an internal..

I normally get about 10mb per second on usb/2 drives as a maximum.. so its
like running a LAN drive. The only fast one I've seen is when my brother put
2 500gb drives into a pleiades firewire 800 enclosure on his mac. he was
getting 50mb/s copy times.

On Jan 15, 2008 9:15 AM, Neven MacEwan <neven at mwk.co.nz> wrote:

> Leigh
>
> What sort of HD, SATA? Some are rated better than others MTBF
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I have a hard disk which I don't access often. I want to know if I put
> the
> > hard disk in a external hard drive case compare to leave the hard drive
> in
> > the pc. Which method will help the hard drive to live longer if not
> > considering more easy to damage the hard drive in the case?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Regards
> > Leigh
> >
> >
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