I recently had my external HDD that I kept movies on die and when I tried to have the data recovered the tech guy said that regularly accessing files on external HDD's reduced their life span. He obviously tried to upsell me an external media player.
I've never heard of this before, does regularly accessing media on standard external HD's degrade their lifespan? Is it actually better to use an external media player?
They were just small external HDD's that did get hot and were moved a lot, so I'm assuming it was just normal wear and tear.
I was definitely leaning towards replacing with another normal drive anyway.