The early low capacity slow speed drives that were at the time very expensive but usually ultra reliable and built to stand a few knocks have been replaced by much higher capacity units as the demand for storage by consumers rapidly increased but who also needed more space for much less cost. service engineer for over 10 years now and year by year the quality of hard drives dropped but then so did the cost of buying them.
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If you were to remove a hard drive and sit it on a shelf possibility next to or near say your one of your pc speakers that contain a substantial magnet or left in the open where it is liable to get other things placed on it or maybe moved by others who might not give it the care you would then you chances of it being damaged will obviously increase. The long term reliability of any form of storage device will inevitably be greatly affected by the way in which that device is then stored once data is transferred to it. Images for a photographic memory | Flickr | >My 500px<<< That was a great meal ~ you must have a good set of pans What can affect a drive in that manner? The received wisdom, I thought, (for some) has been a stored HDD is better very long term than relying on DVD and CDs. I have never heard of such a loss of data. Tapes have a very good history for archival storage but can you please qualify what say about the loss of data in leaving a hard drive on the shelf. Drives just are not a good long term solution for that sort of storage. if you put something on a hard drive turn the drive off and leave it sit on as shelf for about a year you can expect to lose some data maybe all of it.
I have not used WD external drives but I have used Maxtor and a few different self built ones and I love external harddrives for their ability to leave lots of data accessible, unlike DVD's that require too much feeding and harddrives are much faster BUT.