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Offline pinsanity

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External hard drive question
« on: July 26, 2013, 01:51:38 PM »
Question for the tech guys.

Is there an inherent danger in filling an external hard drive to maximum capacity? If so, is there a rule of thumb as to how much "empty space" should be left based on capacity?

Can a hard drive fail for being overfilled?
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Offline MartyJ

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Re: Re: External hard drive question
« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2013, 02:09:12 PM »
From a physical point of view no,  buy software likes 10 percent free
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Re: External hard drive question
« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2013, 02:34:10 PM »
If only used for storage, there is no danger to load up.  Data can be recovered off failed drives at a cost.
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