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Originally Posted by Ronald Epstein
The second I am using for Time Machine. The only concern I have
is that I have to leave the hard drive running constantly. Is it okay
to leave a powered external drive running day after day? Doesn't
it deteriorate the lifespan of the unit?
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It's not apparent why that would be. People leave computers powered all day, thus leave their internal hard-drives powered long-term with no deterioration of the unit. Also, my wife's new Seagate external sleeps when her Mac sleeps. My drive, an internal drive plugged into a generic external case, seems to have its fan on always but only run the drive for actual disk activity.
So, if you're going to have troubles, at least you'll have a lot of company when all of us external-drive owners also suffer similarly
