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General => On Topic => Topic started by: m654321 on March 08, 2018, 01:39:45 AM
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I'm looking for a large external hard drive for storage of my videos & TV programmes. It needs to have USB 3.0 connectivity and be around 8 to 10 TB (though can be more) and powered from a laptop (setup[1] in signature below). Do any of you have any personal recommendations?
Given its size, will it need its own independent power supply? I know Seagate's recent 5TB external hard drive doesn't need one, as it's powered from the laptop through the USB 3.0 connection.
Also, I know many of the very large drives don't come with a single disk, but have more than one disk in a RAID configuration. Do such RAID drives have plug & play capability with LL or is there a bit of work to do to configure LL to use them? Ideally I want an external USB drive that has just a single large disk - I would imagine with a single disk it's simpler and probably less likely that something will go wrong.
Many thanks in advance for any knowledge that you can share in this area.
Your help and advice is much appreciated as always 8)
Mike
PS. the laptop also has thunderbolt connectivity, but i have no idea if this will work readily with LL - any ideas?