I think it's more likely that the external drives run hotter in a small
case with little ventilation. I've never had any trouble with external
drives but mine only run when they're doing backup duty.
Chuck Norcutt
On 3/7/2014 10:49 PM, Wayne Harridge wrote:
> I've had more failures of external drives than internal, I've got a feeling
> it's related to power cycling the external drives (my desktop's internal
> drives are almost never powered off and have been very reliable).
>
> ...Wayne
>
>
>
>> With the constant downward pressure on
>> prices for disk drives, I've always worried that over-reliance on
> ever-cheaper
>> external drives could be problematic. Hence the use of three USB drives.
>>
>
>
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