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craig588
Nov 19, 2005

by Nyc_Tattoo
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'm open to a non powered enclosure recommendation if anyone has experiences with using some of them in heavy load situations where they haven't failed. I've mostly been using powered ones because it's an easy way for me to not have to think about the type of enclosure I'm getting.

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