blindartist

Hey guys,

So i have a question, i just got a external hard drive, the digital research 320gb (it registers as a hitachi in the device manager), anyways for 99$ i really couldnt complain, ive never actually had an extarnal HD before and noticed that it doesnt power down when you power down your system, it does have a I/O switch on the back of it, so should i turn the HD off when i switch my system off? the I/O switch seems like a curde method, feels like im hitting the I/O swtch on my psu while the computer is on which i would never do.

any thoughts?

Regeneration

Turn it off when your system is off.

blindartist

do you think its healthier to run it standing up in its vertical stand or laying down? i was thinking laying down so there are no forces of gravity acting on the heads or the disk spin