Topic: Do you have an External hard drive? (Read 706 times)
I have so many external hard drives I couldn't possibly list them all. Most of them are backups of our business. They normally range from 1tb-4tb. I believe I have smaller ones which haven't been filled up yet but they are more for temporary files.
Yes, several dozen terabytes, about half as backup.
I do not have internal HDDs in any of my systems, just SSDs. and my main desktop PCs/workstations boot from PCIe SSDs for better performance.
USB3.0 really made larger external HDDs practical. Not a lot of machines have multiple eSATA ports and USB2 is just too slow. It used to take days to copy a multi-terabyte HDD through USB2. With USB3 it takes hours.
I do not have internal HDDs in any of my systems, just SSDs. and my main desktop PCs/workstations boot from PCIe SSDs for better performance.
USB3.0 really made larger external HDDs practical. Not a lot of machines have multiple eSATA ports and USB2 is just too slow. It used to take days to copy a multi-terabyte HDD through USB2. With USB3 it takes hours.
Yeah a 500 External Drive that is Laptop HD size used to move download movies from my main PC to my home made media centre.
Seagate FreeAgent 2TB
1TB internal
3TB external mostly for media/large applications/backups
500GB external for transferring large files.
However I really want another large external as a secondary backup because I'm pretty paranoid about losing all my data.
3TB external mostly for media/large applications/backups
500GB external for transferring large files.
However I really want another large external as a secondary backup because I'm pretty paranoid about losing all my data.
Several.
Yes, many, mostly for backups. I also use bare drives as externals, with one of those handy docks you can plug than into.
Why?
Why?
Yes, three 1TB
Yup, I use 2 WD 1 TB My Passport HDD's.
I have this 4TB dual enclosure. It supports RAID0, RAID1 (disk mirror), Normal (shows two disks) and JBOD (combines the two disks).
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