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.
<br><br>I've got plenty of external drives which are all lasting very well.. biggest hassle is just the slower access compared to an internal..<br><br>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.
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 15, 2008 9:15 AM, Neven MacEwan <<a href="mailto:neven@mwk.co.nz">neven@mwk.co.nz</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Leigh<br><br>What sort of HD, SATA? Some are rated better than others MTBF<br><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">> Hello everyone,<br>><br>> I have a hard disk which I don't access often. I want to know if I put the
<br>> hard disk in a external hard drive case compare to leave the hard drive in<br>> the pc. Which method will help the hard drive to live longer if not<br>> considering more easy to damage the hard drive in the case?
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