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 Member 89 Level 24.44 Mar 2006 
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I've owned 8 external hard drives of varying size over the years. I think that 6 of them were drive units, and the other 2 I put together myself with an internal drive and a case. I've only had one fail - a 400 gig unit about 4 years ago. The drive was getting heavy use in a hot room, but I can't say if that contribted to the failure.
But in my experience, external drives aren't any less reliable than internal ones. I'll be buying 1 or 2 new ones in the next couple of months, and I'll decommission my old ones to use as backups. I wonder if "Recertified" drives are fixed the same way Miles fixed the GFF harddrive, which was just a problem with the controller circuitry. I can't imagine it's ever cost-effective to open up a drive to fix the internals. Still, I'd shy away from them. Most amazing jew boots |
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