An external hard drive can potentially survive a fall, but plugging it in is only going to make the problem worse.

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A slow hard drive can make routine tasks, such as storing and transferring files, unbearably frustrating. Running Windows or any other operating system from a slow hard drive can make matters even ...

Old hard drives can store backed-up data or be saved for future use, but where you keep them and how you store them matters a lot.