USB trouble with external hard disk

[gene heskett]

On 2/23/25 06:33, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
> The firmware of almost all USB to SATA controllers is crap. You think
> everything is ok and then suddenly, after minutes or years, you get IO
> errors because some period of time is exceeded in which the controllers
> go into sleep mode and with Linux you cannot reasonably clarify the
> reawakening of the controller. So far I have only found one enclosure
> with which this crap does not occur. Good housing, suitable firmware but
> with miserable switching power supplies if you don't like electric
> shocks. Cheap switching power supplies are a topic in themselves.

While that can be true, Ralf, switching psu's can be a problem, but 
they've been 10000% better

than any magenta drive cable, which has about a 2 or 3 year lifetime. 
One popular psu maker

seems to design for an old age drift low, that seems to rare its head as 
low voltage just weeks

after the warranty expires.

I've had much better luck with 300 watt rated $12 USD supply's bought 
from china in lots of 24

than with name brand stuff since the late 1980's.

Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.

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