I have a Seagate 500GB external hard driven which is connected to the PC by USB... left connected to PC and the mains all the while. It only has about 50-250GB on it most of the while... old files from our previous PC. I use it also to do a backup from time to time of crucial MyDocuments and images. Importantly I do this when we go away for any time and hide the hard drive so in the awful case of a burglary we at least have a copy of crucial docs and images.
What I can't understand is that it runs all the time even when you're not looking at anything on it... sometimes it really speeds up and whirrs away. What's it doing and is this wearing it out over time?
Last edited by: Fenlander on Tue 18 Jan 11 at 07:26
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