what do you want to do with it?

>>21700924
store games, music, videos etc

Depends on what you're storing and the purpose for storing it is.

>>21700930
internal then

fuck this thread im outta heer
dumbfuck OP detected

External for backup.
Internal for everything else.

Or NAS for both.

borrowing thread, does internal last longer than external?

>>21700930
Why does it matter?

are you going to be moving files between machines

Depends on your circumstances and needs.

>>21700954
>are you going to be moving files between machines

yes

>>21700970

External then you fucking faggot. Why the hell do you even ask us?

>>21700950
Internal means the drives can stay cooler and therefore last longer. Most external drives don't have good, if any cooling and the drives get really hot really fast if you're pulling a lot of data from them.

But if you want to share it between more than one computer a NAS might be a good option for you if you have an old spare computer lying around that you could pop a few drives into.

I'd like to interject for a moment. What you are referring to as an external hard drive; is in fact, an internal hard drive with an outer casing, or as I've recently taken to calling it, internal HDD plus case. . .

SSD vs HDD which is more reliable?

>>21701019
>Most external drives don't have good, if any cooling and the drives get really hot really fast if you're pulling a lot of data from them.

that feel when I live my on for 24/7

>>21701037
SSD.

eSata

what now motherfuckers

>>21701049
dat feel when your drives die prematurely

>>21701030
Goddammit, the internal HDD community has never done anything for the external HDD community. Stop piggy-backing on our success, your backwards communist.

>>21701066

its impossible to recover data from a broken SSD

>>21700918

Depends depends and depends.

anyway i use an external OPEN caddy OP
You should too
I have no internal drives
I boot from an external eSATA drive
It's sat in an open caddy. You slot the drive in the top on it's end so it's exposed to the air if you see what i mean.
cooler than an internal and more convinient to move around
I have 3 machines and like 10 drives nearly full of OSes and shit
got sick of opening cases and wotnot
and get the ones with BLUE LEDS that light up round the base of the caddy, it make ur life better

>>21701019
I read that cool temperatures can still lead to premature hard drive deaths and that ~40c is a good temp. I don't know if it is exactly true but if anyone can explain a bit more by all means.

http://storagemojo.com/2007/02/19/googles-disk-failure-experience/

Internal = faster than external

>>21701161
Exactly right, I go off that study you linked there. The optimum temperature for long hard drive life is between 35C and 40C. Most of my drives stay right between those numbers.

>>21701136
What do you mean by "broken"? There are many different things that could go wrong with an SSD.

Simply said, HDs have moving parts, an SSD doesn't.
Also, what a stupid definition of "reliability" you got there. Reliability should be the chances of not failing, not the chances of recovering something in case it fails.