Cable Forum - View Single Post - Does using 3.5 IDE/SATA drives in USB Cases damage them over time?

Graham M · 05-08-2010, 12:24

Hard Drives these days automatically park as soon as the power is removed (they are sprung - that's what the click is when your PC shuts down), so as long as nothing is being read/written then there should in theory be no problem, the main problems i are jolts and movement whilst the drive is spinning and loss of data if it is in the middle of reading/writing as well as heat in those small enclosures which has already been mentioned

05-08-2010, 12:24	#5
Graham M - Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Poole, Dorset Age: 40 Services: FreeSat+ Tivo V-Box VM 60MBit Posts: 13,365	Re: Does using 3.5 IDE/SATA drives in USB Cases damage them over time? Hard Drives these days automatically park as soon as the power is removed (they are sprung - that's what the click is when your PC shuts down), so as long as nothing is being read/written then there should in theory be no problem, the main problems i are jolts and movement whilst the drive is spinning and loss of data if it is in the middle of reading/writing as well as heat in those small enclosures which has already been mentioned