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External drive for home shared drive and router download? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I use a simple 2.5" external usb drive connecter to my router as a shared drive on my home network. I also use it to run my router's torrent download tool and get new content.

The external drive is not new and I worry that with the constant load it might fail one day. It's also slow sometimes when watching content directly from it with kodi.

What would you suggest I replace it with? Would a 3.5" external usb drive be safer?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

2.5" vs 3.5" HDD doesn't make much difference in speed, you could get an SSD instead maybe.

All drives will fail sometime, I wouldn't worry about constant load being an issue, that's generally better for HDDs.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I see thank you!