Solve : How long can I leave an ext. hard drive running??

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Answer» I have a 120 Gig. external hard drive I use only for storage, but was wondering if I can leave it running just as long as the computer, say, several hours a day. Are there any issues with this, other than cooling? Its' fan seems sufficient for the short few hours I have had it on.Quote from: jwfilion on May 26, 2008, 06:20:03 PM I have a 120 Gig. external hard drive I use only for storage, but was wondering if I can leave it running just as long as the computer, say, several hours a day. Are there any issues with this, other than cooling? Its' fan seems sufficient for the short few hours I have had it on. Hard drives will only do what they want to do. They die when they decide. Just leave the THING connected to your computer. I don't see anything wrong leaving it on it will only run when you use it OTHERWISE it doesn't run and also if there is a fan with the external case I would not worry about it overheating at all. Jwfilion I wouldn't worry about the harddrive at all I think it would be fine. Hey frankie that was pretty bad adviceQuote from: Frankie on May 26, 2008, 06:30:15 PM Hard drives will only do what they want to do. They die when they decide. Just leave the thing connected to your computer. [/quote]Quote from: brett74 on May 26, 2008, 06:38:09 PM I don't see anything wrong leaving it on it will only run when you use it otherwise it doesn't run and also if there is a fan with the external case I would not worry about it overheating at all. Jwfilion I wouldn't worry about the harddrive at all I think it would be fine. Hey frankie that was pretty bad adviceQuote from: Frankie on May 26, 2008, 06:30:15 PM Hard drives will only do what they want to do. They die when they decide. Just leave the thing connected to your computer. One big word WHAT!!!! BRETT why is that such bad advice! Especially when you have given the same advice you muppet!! I have a 250 Gig External, and it's been running since I bought it. It's on with my comp. 24 hours a day. Never had a bit of trouble with it.I tend to only turn mine on when necessary to try and EXTEND the lifespan. Also mine gets quite hot, it has no fan and an aluminium case which seems unable to properly dissipate heat, so I turn it off and let it cool down, just in case. I would say it'll be OK to leave it on as long as you like though, internal drives are designed for thousands or millions of hours of use and external drives are the same thing with a different enclosure.

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I have a 120 Gig. external hard drive I use only for storage, but was wondering if I can leave it running just as long as the computer, say, several hours a day. Are there any issues with this, other than cooling? Its' fan seems sufficient for the short few hours I have had it on.Quote from: jwfilion on May 26, 2008, 06:20:03 PM

I have a 120 Gig. external hard drive I use only for storage, but was wondering if I can leave it running just as long as the computer, say, several hours a day. Are there any issues with this, other than cooling? Its' fan seems sufficient for the short few hours I have had it on.

Hard drives will only do what they want to do. They die when they decide. Just leave the THING connected to your computer. I don't see anything wrong leaving it on it will only run when you use it OTHERWISE it doesn't run and also if there is a fan with the external case I would not worry about it overheating at all. Jwfilion I wouldn't worry about the harddrive at all I think it would be fine.

Hey frankie that was pretty bad adviceQuote from: Frankie on May 26, 2008, 06:30:15 PM

Hard drives will only do what they want to do. They die when they decide. Just leave the thing connected to your computer.
[/quote]Quote from: brett74 on May 26, 2008, 06:38:09 PM

I don't see anything wrong leaving it on it will only run when you use it otherwise it doesn't run and also if there is a fan with the external case I would not worry about it overheating at all. Jwfilion I wouldn't worry about the harddrive at all I think it would be fine.

Hey frankie that was pretty bad adviceQuote from: Frankie on May 26, 2008, 06:30:15 PM

Hard drives will only do what they want to do. They die when they decide. Just leave the thing connected to your computer.

One big word WHAT!!!! BRETT why is that such bad advice! Especially when you have given the same advice you muppet!! I have a 250 Gig External, and it's been running since I bought it.
It's on with my comp. 24 hours a day.
Never had a bit of trouble with it.I tend to only turn mine on when necessary to try and EXTEND the lifespan.
Also mine gets quite hot, it has no fan and an aluminium case which seems unable to properly dissipate heat, so I turn it off and let it cool down, just in case.
I would say it'll be OK to leave it on as long as you like though, internal drives are designed for thousands or millions of hours of use and external drives are the same thing with a different enclosure.

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