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Bullitt · 10-02-2007, 09:08 PM

Soooo to those of the technical persuasion, what is the best way to prolong the life of my backup external hard drives? Should I only leave them on when I am actively using them transferring data, leave them on all the time, something inbetween? Yes I backup everything to DVD's as well, so I'm not solely relying on these for my data's safety, but I'm not exactly rich enough to afford new 500gb hard drives on a whim.

10-02-2007, 09:08 PM	#1
Bullitt This is a fully functional babe lair Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Akron, OH Posts: 2,324	Preventing hard drive failure Soooo to those of the technical persuasion, what is the best way to prolong the life of my backup external hard drives? Should I only leave them on when I am actively using them transferring data, leave them on all the time, something inbetween? Yes I backup everything to DVD's as well, so I'm not solely relying on these for my data's safety, but I'm not exactly rich enough to afford new 500gb hard drives on a whim. __________________ Kiss my white Irish ass.