External Drive

[Seann Aswell]

In your experience using them with DragonFly thus far, no data 
corruption or issues seeing the serial number of the drive?


On 2/24/20 1:24 PM, patric conant wrote:
> The best caddies come from Costco for ~ $130. USB 2/3, with two more 
> ports on a hub on the front, to potentially daisy chain drives. Most 
> importantly there's also a 8TB WD drive inside, at approximately the 
> lowest cost/TB available, anywhere. Sorry I'm not more help, but I have 
> a pile of these external caddies in my workroom, as I had other plans 
> for the drives.
> 
> On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 11:54 PM Seann Aswell <seann at spa104.com 
> <mailto:seann at spa104.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Can anyone recommend a good external USB drive caddy?
> 
>     Need one to locally backup a Thinkpad with a single drive bay, but
>     DFly/H1/H2 don't seem to play well with the models I have tried.
> 
>     The drive shows up as /dev/serno/ABCDEF0123 and data has corrupted on a
>     few occasions when copying. Currently using a recent OWC Mercury Elite
>     Pro Mini enclosure, but who knows the quality of the components used...
> 
>     Suggestions?
> 
> 
> 
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