"Jules Richardson" wrote in message
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I had/have a Seagate (250GB) one. Niggles included the fact that it used
a bulky wall-wart rather than integrated PSU (and "kettle lead"), the
fact that it was tall and thin (so could be knocked over easily), and the
fact that it'd automatically spin down after x minutes of inactivity
(increasing potential for failure - drives generally don't like lots of
stop-start cycles)

Laptop drives are designed for thousands of stop start cycles at the
expensive of not being as reliable as desktop drives when left running.