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alferret · 05-08-2010, 07:07

By "safely removing hardware" you allow the drive to park its heads, but I never use that option when switching off an external drive, I have a 500gb ext that is 4 years old and just gets switched off when I am done with it.

Still going strong.

05-08-2010, 07:07	#3
alferret Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Mansfield Age: 59 Services: There is no destination to life, the journey is everything! Posts: 5,532	Re: Does using 3.5 IDE/SATA drives in USB Cases damage them over time? By "safely removing hardware" you allow the drive to park its heads, but I never use that option when switching off an external drive, I have a 500gb ext that is 4 years old and just gets switched off when I am done with it. Still going strong.