Subj : Re: To shuck or not to shuck...
To   : Arelor
From : Gamgee
Date : Sun Dec 03 2023 09:36 pm

-=> Arelor wrote to Digital Man <=-

 Ar>   Re: To shuck or not to shuck...
 Ar>   By: Digital Man to All on Sun Dec 03 2023 03:14 pm

 > What are you experiences with external USB drives? Have you shucked them and

 Ar> Main reason to extract the drive from the case is reliability
 Ar> instead of performance gains, IMO.

 Ar> Many cheap cases or encased drives have cheap USB controlers that
 Ar> will die on you, or their USB connectors will give in, at the
 Ar> worst possible time.

 Ar> If you don't want the drive to be portable (so that files can be
 Ar> moved from a place to another without the need of a network) and
 Ar> you have a drive bay in thecomputer which is free, then
 Ar> extracting the drive from the case is the obvious choice,
 Ar> specially if you can extract it without damaging the case, IMO.

I agree with this post.

Another point, that I have observed personally, is that I've had "too 
many" external devices connected to USB ports, which has caused 
intermittent/flaky operation on some devices.  I firmly believe that was 
cause by over-taxing the power-handling (supply) ability of the USB 
controller(s) to provide.  In other words, just because you have 4-6 USB 
ports doesn't mean the system can adequately power that many external 
devices all at the same time, in a reliable manner.



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