[DUG] [Off topic] hard disk

[Leigh Wanstead]

Hi Kyley,

Thanks for the answer.

I don't worry about the disk access speed that much as sata promises same
speed no matter the disk is internal or external as long as using sata
external case.

Regards
Leigh
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  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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