On 2/3/19 11:32 am, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
The drives are connected directly to the computer via a USB link. I
have suspected that the problem is related to my system, however Todd
Chester in another reply to my posting says that these cheap drives
are not to be trusted. I'm going to take his advice and build my own box.
I've no faith in USB-connected drives, either...
They may have a poor grade of disc drive inside them
They overheat
They get banged about
Computers are poor at supplying them with enough power over USB
Wall-warts are poor at supplying adequate power, too
Computers are poor at prolonged scads of data flowing over USB
The USB enclosures often don't support SMART, so you can't check their
health
When something goes doolally, files get corrupted
I prefer NAS (doing the same kind of thing over the LAN).
They're self-powered
If there is a data interruption, the current file in transit gets
aborted instead of corrupted
Everything on the LAN can directly access the drive
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