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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Why would you get a big external hard drive that requieres a power source? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Apart from having more storage capacity, why not just get a complete portable one that uses 5V and doesn’t requires you to power it with a plug? What advances does a big 12V external hard drive have against a smaller fully portable 5V HDD?

I have a Seagate One Touch 5TB and it’s great but I want another one probably with more storage but from what I’ve seen only Seagate’s Expansion Desktop drives offer more storage than 5TB.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well USB can only power a small mostly 2.5inch external drive and cannot really spin most large 3.5 inch drives.

And once you want larger sizes or more reliable enterprise drives which are in most large external usb drives you need power. If you are happy with a smaller ( and most likely less reliable ) 2.5 inch drive usb only is of course more convenient.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Actually USB-C could power it. Or at least some ports could. But USB-C is a clusterfuck hence…