-=> Arelor wrote to Digital Man <=-
Ar> Re: To shuck or not to shuck...
Ar> By: Digital Man to All on Sun Dec 03 2023 03:14 pm
> What are you experiences with external USB drives? Have you shucked them and
Ar> Main reason to extract the drive from the case is reliability
Ar> instead of performance gains, IMO.
Ar> Many cheap cases or encased drives have cheap USB controlers that
Ar> will die on you, or their USB connectors will give in, at the
Ar> worst possible time.
Ar> If you don't want the drive to be portable (so that files can be
Ar> moved from a place to another without the need of a network) and
Ar> you have a drive bay in thecomputer which is free, then
Ar> extracting the drive from the case is the obvious choice,
Ar> specially if you can extract it without damaging the case, IMO.
I agree with this post.
Another point, that I have observed personally, is that I've had "too
many" external devices connected to USB ports, which has caused
intermittent/flaky operation on some devices. I firmly believe that was
cause by over-taxing the power-handling (supply) ability of the USB
controller(s) to provide. In other words, just because you have 4-6 USB
ports doesn't mean the system can adequately power that many external
devices all at the same time, in a reliable manner.
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