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External HD mount vs External HD

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BrightSideSC

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Please, may I get some opinions on what you prefer for storage and why. I have the following: Rosewill External Hard drive mount, Rosewill External Hard drive ENCLOSURE, and two Seagate External Hard drives. I use all of them, and I like the versatility of the Hard Drive MOUNT, butI'm wondering other opinions on what you prefer to use and the reasoning behind it. There are just so many options. Thanks!
 
For performance I would prefer to use an enclosure or a mount because those will let you put any HDD in there. If performance is a concern then you should avoid external HDDs since their performance can often times be much worse than using a traditional HDD in an enclosure.

A mount seems to be the same thing as an enclosure with the exception that the mount does not encase the HDD leaving it more vulnerable. Performance wise, I think they should be roughly the same.
 
A HDD mount I find to be better for expandability as you do not need a large number of USB ports / have to swap lots of cables around or have multiple power bricks (if the external drives are from different manufactures).

Down side is that eventually having 6 bear drives around leads to issues tracking what has what where as a external drive you can label easiler.

When it comes to portability though, external drives win (laptop based ones), but they are expencive for bulk data storage.

Though depending on the interface, speeds can be slow leading to wanting some sort of DAS instead of external drives.
 
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