usb external storage

Good morning, I am responsible for all the computers in my department at my university. Our replacement policy for computers are 4 years for laptops and 5 years for desktops. When a staff member upgrades to a new PC / Laptop, we remove the storage device (hard drive or SSD) from the old...

Good morning - I'm running Windows 10 on a 2-year-old PC (HP Pavilion Desktop 590-P00700, Intel Core i7-8700, 12GB RAM, DDR4-2666, PC4-21300 MB/s, 1TB Hard Drive). Last year, when backing up some data, I noticed that the PC slowed down drastically whenever I plugged in an external hard drive...