Originally Posted by Trogon
Same failure rate, it's nothing more than an internal hard drive housed in a box and attached via USB. The things that kill the drive in your computer will kill one of these just the same.
For this reason I only plug the external USB hard drive into my cumputer and the power supply when I use it to backup. Other wise it is completely dormant. I've been told by the historians at our denomination, that even data burned into a CD degrades over time. "Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, bits to to oblivion..." (see Isaiah 40:6-8)