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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > Portable hard drives?
 
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Bob Morales
Aug 18, 2006


Just wear the fucking mask, Bob

I don't care how many people I probably infected with COVID-19 while refusing to wear a mask, my comfort is far more important than the health and safety of everyone around me!

craig588 posted:

I've always only liked external enclosures that have their own power. I've never seen a powered off USB drive that didn't fail with heavy loads, even on high current USB ports. I've always gotten flash drives for non powered ultra portable storage and used generic powered enclosures with WD reds and Seagate NAS drives inserted into them for high capacity portable storage.

I'll argue that the 3.5" with their own power supplies (all of them AFAIK) are poo poo. More parts to break, power supplies are junk, etc. Get a 2.5" bus-powered one.

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