Is it ok to leave an external hard drive on 24/7?

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Blue Velvet

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Our one Lacie external drive connected to our little server is left on 24/7/365... probably two years running now.
 
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~J~

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I have a Seagate external that is connected to my AEBS that hasnt been turned off in over 2 months. Never had any issues with it overheating... even when my A/C died for 9 hours in the heat of a Texas day. It has a lot to do with the enclosure though, my Seagate stands upright and is in an aluminum casing, those two factors no doubt help.
 
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vanmacguy

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Not where you live.
~J~ said:
I have a Seagate external that is connected to my AEBS that hasnt been turned off in over 2 months. Never had any issues with it overheating... even when my A/C died for 9 hours in the heat of a Texas day. It has a lot to do with the enclosure though, my Seagate stands upright and is in an aluminum casing, those two factors no doubt help.
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Same as mine and the same answer. No problems at all.

And at work we have high end servers with the drives spinning all the time. They last a couple of years at least and it's hot in that server cabinet!
 
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BennyK

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I have two HD's on 24/7 and I was worried about the same thing at first. I kept feeling them to make sure they werent two warm, but they never were warm and I never had a problem.
 
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ghking

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well mine definitely gets really warm, but i was just making sure it wouldnt be bad for it.
 

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