Leaving hard drives plugged in

[HenryHealy]

Hey guys,

I'm just wondering if it does any damage to leave a portable hard drive plugged into your computer indefinitely. Will do damage as opposed to leaving a desktop hard drive plugged in indefinitely. I know the point of a portable hard drive is just to grab stuff as you need it but should you always leave a desktop drive plugged in?

Cheers

 

[Lucion]

I have a portable drive (Western Digital Passport Essential 1TB) plugged into my system with all of my iTunes media on it and I have never unplugged it. I don't turn my computer off and it is fine. Most drives will actually go to sleep if left idle for a time.

My entire system has been running off of an external drive since January (iMac drive died) and runs fine.

 

[dhartung02]

Agreed - there should not be any issue at all leaving it plugged in.