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external HD question
Takeshi:
Seeding with your external means it's on all the time. Seeing as an internal is also on all the time, it can be confusing why it's suddenly much worse with an external. Though it can significantly reduce your HDD's life span. I only use mine when I need to move stuff and when I watch stuff from it. And it's not more than a few hours it's on at a time.
Anyway, if your HDD has backup stuff on it, you can just format it, I did that with mine after a while, that was a WD Passport. Though it isn't on unless you activate it.
XinWind:
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--- Quote from: Takeshi on October 18, 2009, 06:27:49 PM ---1. IMO the 1TB I have is performing flawlessly. Just don't use it to seed, it'll kill it. But that goes for any harddrive and not just 1-2TB. Also, try to avoid moving it too much, transporting it in a sports bag several times isn't a good idea imo. Especially if there's much space.
2. I have a WD Elements 1TB and a WD Passport 320GB, and they've yet to fail on me or performance bad. The Passport one does show some ageing in the case of disconnecting if I touch the USB cable, though I can't say I've been too good to it. Sometimes you forget it's connected because it's so small and you move your laptop. Bad stuff happens..
3. IMO that's a very good price, though quality can vary of course, my 1TB costed around $160-180 and it's very good quality.
EDIT: Have you tried looking through the Technology forum? There's several threads concerning this subject. Also, you should probably have posted this in that forum.
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errr.. why is it bad to seed? Because thats what ive been doing for quite a while now, lol. All my animes on the external HD and i leave it on a lot to seed here. It doesn't get moved much, usually stays on the desk plugged into the laptop. I really need to know this because thats pretty much what its used for. Storing and d.loading/torrenting anime. So if that hurts it thats a problem o_O
i may look up that WD one. Are there any brands i should just stay away from? anyone know how HP is? One thing i definatly dont want are stupid autobackup programs.
hmm i didn't see the tech forum at all. It probably would be better over there. Can a mod move it over there? If not i guess maybe just lock this and i can repost there?
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Doesn't seed from the external over work it and end up ruining it in the future and shorten the life span. If I'm not mistaken. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Also if you look in the tech. section there should be my thread still and people have listed a few good externals and which ones to avoid on it.
My thread
billlanam:
The internal drives have case fans to help keep them cool.
Cheap external drives have no such cooling, which means you would have to find a way to keep them cool if you want them to last, like keeping your room cold, or a metal cup of water, or blowing air over them with a fan, etc.
Takeshi:
--- Quote from: billlanam on October 19, 2009, 09:34:48 AM ---The internal drives have case fans to help keep them cool.
Cheap external drives have no such cooling, which means you would have to find a way to keep them cool if you want them to last, like keeping your room cold, or a metal cup of water, or blowing air over them with a fan, etc.
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Ah, I knew it was something simple. I think my 1TB has a 10-15+ holes that the air can get out of, though I don't know if there's a fan. It probably also has something to do with how cheap they're whether they have a fan or not.
Sticks:
External drive manufacturers (Imation/Iomega/HP/Verbatim/whatever) usually use whatever brand of HDD they have available or have a deal with at the time since they don't have the capacity to manufacture their own HDDs. WD/Seagate/Samsung/Hitachi/etc do, or they use the same factory.
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