- Jan 31, 2015
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OK. So I'm the type of guy who likes to have tons of storage space. Right now I have a 2 TB main hard drive (with plenty left over), a 4 TB internal hard drive that is 3/4s empty, another internal 1TB HD that I am housing in an adapter so I am using it effectively as an external HD, and yet another 1 TB external hard drive.
Now I still got tons of space and I am not worried about it for now. But I do plan on replacing the 1TB external with an 8TB once I feel I am ready to upgrade. But I got some questions about external hard drives in general.
When I go on bestbuy to window shop, I see multiple kinds. I see expansion drives, backup drives, and apparently 'regular' drives. I sorta figure that backup drives aren't exactly made to use on the regular but just to back-up stuff? What would the difference between an expansion drive and a regular.
I also have one other question. My current 1TB hard drive has a recognition issue. I am not worried about it dying because it has been stable for a long time. But usually when I boot up my computer, it doesn't show up on my list of accessible drives, and I need to either power-cycle it or just remove the USB and reconnect, and it shows up again just fine. Though it sometimes derecognizes for a second and then comes back, popping up the window which can disrupt my work or gaming momentarily. Is this a symptom of something? How can I prevent it.
Just to let you know, this also happens with my internal/external drive. I just power-cycle it to fix the issue and it has been with me for more than a year with nothing wrong happening. Is there some way to prevent this? A driver issue perhaps?
Now I still got tons of space and I am not worried about it for now. But I do plan on replacing the 1TB external with an 8TB once I feel I am ready to upgrade. But I got some questions about external hard drives in general.
When I go on bestbuy to window shop, I see multiple kinds. I see expansion drives, backup drives, and apparently 'regular' drives. I sorta figure that backup drives aren't exactly made to use on the regular but just to back-up stuff? What would the difference between an expansion drive and a regular.
I also have one other question. My current 1TB hard drive has a recognition issue. I am not worried about it dying because it has been stable for a long time. But usually when I boot up my computer, it doesn't show up on my list of accessible drives, and I need to either power-cycle it or just remove the USB and reconnect, and it shows up again just fine. Though it sometimes derecognizes for a second and then comes back, popping up the window which can disrupt my work or gaming momentarily. Is this a symptom of something? How can I prevent it.
Just to let you know, this also happens with my internal/external drive. I just power-cycle it to fix the issue and it has been with me for more than a year with nothing wrong happening. Is there some way to prevent this? A driver issue perhaps?
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