Carlos E. R. wrote: [...]
External usb hard drives are very convenient, but they are not reliable, unfortunately. They are exposed to handling, for instance, and a HD should not be even moved while spinning.
Agreed. However I never ever experienced a simultaneous failure of data loss and external harddrive failure, both at the same time. It is not ideal, it is just cheap and works for me as a home user. Furthermore, if I fear my usb disks to fail at the very wrong moment, I can easily albeit more costly, use 2.5inch notebook drives. Those are much more reliable under rough conditions that an external harddisk might endure. Btw. I handle mine with care. ;-)).
Then, the chipsets used by those boxes are cheap and incomplete, they don't have the necessary functions to use SMART and thus asses the drive health.
That's bad, but if it fails, it is rather unlikely that my internal harddisk will fail at the exact same point in time.
It is a very convenient way of adding large storage capacity which you can then move out to a cupboard or safe, but in fact they can and do die on you at the most unexpected moment.
Yes. Again, would I be willing to invest more in terms of money and work, I probably would do it differently.
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