From the course: Hard Drive Management for Creative Pros
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Factors that can hurt a drive
From the course: Hard Drive Management for Creative Pros
Factors that can hurt a drive
- Let's talk about factors that can harm hard drives. Probably the biggest one is heat. And a lot of that depends on the actual enclosure the drive is in. If it's in a computer the engineers that have built the computer have already pretty much figured out air flow and cooling. So that's very rarely an issue. If you have an external hard drive like this one, this one happens to be enclosed in plastic, and the problem with the plastic hard drive is that plastic is an insulator. A good choice of material for enclosing a hard drive is aluminum, which is a very good conductor of heat and it will tend to wick the heat away from the drive itself. This kind of a drive, (knocking) is plastic as I said, and since plastic is an insulator it's going to contain the heat more. The physical position of a hard drive is also very important. Where you locate an external drive is a big factor when it comes to heat, particularly if it's sitting on a desk in sunlight. Sunlight can heat up a drive so fast…
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