On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 09:32 -0700, Deaf Cat wrote:
> Thinking about it, what is the life expectancy of an hdd, and does an
> internal last longer than a external(heat fatigue!? if no fan).
Heat is the enemy of any disk.
Most (all?) of the external disks are just internal disks in come
carrier or b
Thinking about it, what is the life expectancy of an hdd, and does an
internal last longer than a external(heat fatigue!? if no fan).
I think the Lacie has a 3 year waranty, I seem to remember another make
with a 500gig internal, may have been giving a 5 year waranty, maybe the
Hitachi..?
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I've owned exactly the one you're asking about for 3 or 4 months. Dr
Lovegrove is right, it does get hot, but I have left mine on 24/7 with
no ill effects. For the last month it has probably been active (i.e.
data transfer underway) for at least 8 hours a day which for a home PC
is very heavy use.
Hi
I cannot tell how good or bad the 500Gig firewire external hdd is,
because I do not own one. But I have an Ethernet Disk by LaCie and my
experience is pretty bad. I had to send it in twice and still some
issues remain. Also my experience with LaCie's support isn't very good.
This might be an i
