Random Technical Question about External Hard Drives

boobookitty · 2009-02-18, 05:01 PM

I'm working on some sites and so I am keeping my external hard drive (which contains a lot of content) plugged into my laptop most of the time, in fact forgot to unplug it last night when I went to bed.
OK so the random question of the day is:

Is it better to be plugging and un-plugging an external hard drive on a regular basis or to keep it plugged in for several days at a time until I am done with my project(s)?

I did look for a question like this but I didn't find anything, although the thread about the 3 year old daughter dropping the laptop over the balcony was funny (since it wasn't my laptop).

My cat once knocked over a chest of drawers on my glass-top desk and into my desktop computer and also knocked a glass end-table over that had my camera on it, and it bent the casing so that I had to send it in to Canon, and they couldn't fix it either, and so they just sold me a re-furbished one at a discounted price.

And yet she still lives...

Ok that was it, and please and TIA.

2009-02-18, 05:01 PM	#1
boobookitty A woman is like beer. They look good, they smell good, and you'd step over your own mother just to get one! Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 51	Random Technical Question about External Hard Drives I'm working on some sites and so I am keeping my external hard drive (which contains a lot of content) plugged into my laptop most of the time, in fact forgot to unplug it last night when I went to bed. OK so the random question of the day is: Is it better to be plugging and un-plugging an external hard drive on a regular basis or to keep it plugged in for several days at a time until I am done with my project(s)? I did look for a question like this but I didn't find anything, although the thread about the 3 year old daughter dropping the laptop over the balcony was funny (since it wasn't my laptop). My cat once knocked over a chest of drawers on my glass-top desk and into my desktop computer and also knocked a glass end-table over that had my camera on it, and it bent the casing so that I had to send it in to Canon, and they couldn't fix it either, and so they just sold me a re-furbished one at a discounted price. And yet she still lives... Ok that was it, and please and TIA.