Tim: >> When it comes to external USB drive enclosures for a desktop PC, >> I favour ones that come with their own power supply. I'd leave USB- >> powered ones for battery-powered portable computing.
home user: > By that, you mean a blu-ray drive that's plugged into an AC outlet, right? Yes, that's *my* preference. I have a portable DVD burner that is USB powered, it uses a split lead with two plugs that go into the PC (power, power & data), and one into the DVD drive. It was useful in a "needs must" situation, but it ties up two USB ports (and if they join them together in a stupid way, could be a problem in itself), and has a stupidly short cable. I have other drives that can be connected by USB, they're in a dock which has its own AC supply plugpack. I find that kind of thing more robust, and you can have useful length cables. Naturally I favour fitting optical drives internally. It's far less of a rat's nest of connected objects, that way. Though it seems they're going the way of the dodo, some local suppliers don't stock drives and discs. Others just seem to be selling out their remaining stock. I still favour CDs and DVDs for being able to play audio or video recordings on standard home equipment. I never got into burning BluRays, discs and drives just weren't there to buy on a whim and try out. And standard-def video hides a multitude of sins that are glaringly obvious in high-def. I've come to despise some special- release BluRays of old favourite movies for showing up the shortcomings of some set building. But like you say, adding an external drive can be sorted out at any time in the future. And if, like me, you find you prefer internal ones, you can always keep your eye out for a different PC case, and move everything into it at a later date. I'd always wanted to try out one of the cube style cases, where you have a small box that doesn't have everything crammed in together, instead of the huge oversized PC cases, or the slimline ones which can easily overheat. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 (yes, this is the output from uname for this PC when I posted) Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
