OS Electrical Load
OS electrical load
Operating several laptops with internal SATA connections for multipe drives.
Typically 3-4 hardrives and 1-3 CD-DVD drives.
Add to that USB 3.0 caddies containing 2-4 more SATA hardrives
I often encounter the external hardrives giving up the ghost as being unrecognized by the OS even as brand new drives. Shuttling these around between caddies sometimes works temporarily, but the unexpected loss of the data is a PITA even if when I have backups.
Somebody has suggested that this many drives is probably overloading the voltage on my machines and that most of these drives should be disconnected untill I actually need to copy their data to or from.
Obviously disconneting drives in itself is an added burden but if this is the only way out I will adjust.
Any thoughts to this theory of overload and the need to disconnect ?