Is it better to buy a good internal ide drive and get a good case for it or buy an external hdd? I dont wanna buy an external drive if its gonna bite it in 18 months.
I don't quite get the question as both will function identically. The primary difference would be you can choose to use the external whenever you want. Theoretically if you only turn it on and use it for reading/writing data when necessary, it should outlive an internal drive which is always spinning when the PC is on. Some drives will spin down over some period of time, but even so, using the external only when needed and then shutting if off and "storing" it someplace will definitely give it a longer lifespan.
But who knows: I know people that buy brand new external hard drives that don't last a week. "New" doesn't mean perfect, and any hardware device can fail at any given moment.
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