Ask HN: Recommended external Hard Drive I have had a couple of external dives fail on me over the years. Before I purchase the next, I was wondering if there are any units that you would highly recommend. |
Ask HN: Recommended external Hard Drive I have had a couple of external dives fail on me over the years. Before I purchase the next, I was wondering if there are any units that you would highly recommend. |
The second thing to look into is an external power supply. While this seems bulky, extra cords, etc. It will help extend the life of your drive since you'll be less prone to rapid plug/unplug/plug cycles that are better left for USB drives, not spinning hard drivers, and keep its power up allowing for it to end writes, park heads, close file system, etc. On actual power. Not power derived from the disk slowly spinning down.