Subj : To shuck or not to shuck...
To   : Digital Man
From : Arelor
Date : Sun Dec 03 2023 07:33 pm

  Re: To shuck or not to shuck...
  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 > --
 >                                             digital man (rob)

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

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

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

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