Hard Disk ...

[skate.101]

well my friend had bought an external 2 TB harddisk about 6 months ago and he has been facing problems like the external getting overheated so the question is, is this a global problem or just with his external and wanted to ask whether it would be wise to buy a 2TB external harddisk or two 1.5/1TB plug and play portables if the difference in amount isn't much ...

P.S. I suck at even the basic techy stuff ...

[sdtbl13]

Nearly all external hard drives have relatively high failure rates, but the portable ones are almost always higher than their desktop counterparts. Out of the two options you mentioned, I still would prefer to have the two hdds and have copies on both. I currently have 3 hdds and everything is on at least two of them to make sure I don't lose any data, because if you only have one and it fails (which there is like a 5-10% chance) then you're screwed. I hope this helps.

[lemmingllama]

For stuff like overheating, it just means that his hard-drive isnt the best. All hard drives will die after a while, but one overheating just means that it wasnt a good drive to begin with. A 2TB is just as good as two 1TB, plus it will have a bit more space on it. Really just look at reviews and try to get sales, then you will get the best value

[bezelbubba]

try and keep then n a poen space, overheating may indicate a firmware problem where the drive is running. Most external drives have a power save features where it will spin down and dock the heads to extend the life of the drive. Many ofthese drives are made with low end , slow, green drives. You can alsys run it with out a case or replace it.