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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dave_W" data-source="post: 97940" data-attributes="member: 9521"><p>I snipe the Seagate and WD 3TB externals when they're on sale. Amazon is strange in the way they fluctuate the prices of these things. If you keep an eye on them you'll see they dip below $100 every now and then, that's when you pounce. And like vindex, I also do not keep them plugged in all the time, no need for the discs to keep spinning if I'm not accessing the data, especially since there's a finite number of spins on any magnetic hard drive. Although I understand that a non-spinning HD can also fail, I've several HD's that I've converted to externals that are over 10 yrs old and they all still work fine.....knock on wood.</p></blockquote><p></p>