External Hard Drive File Directory Corrupted Unreadable

Excellent External hard drive.

I use it as an external hard drive for photos.

Protects my WD external hard drive.

This is my third external hard drive, work great.

This external hard drive houses all my photos.

Fast external hard drive. Works well.

Bought to use on an internal hard drive, to make it and external hard drive.

This Hard Drive Case is very sturdy and is a great external protector for your hard drive. Great buy!

I recently purchased two of these for use as backup devices (one in my basement, one in an outbuilding) to hold copies of my photos and other data in case of earthquake, fire, or other disaster (including human error). Since the backup software runs on my desktop computer, the main feature of this NAS I use is the SMB server. The browser-based configuration interface is clean and easy to use, and provides fine-grained control over the filesystem, SMB, user accounts, and security controls. An optional SSH connection will allow Linux experts even more choices. I also appreciated the basic-but-useful file manager app. The CPU and memory were sufficient to keep my 1Gb network and 5400rpm WD Red+ drives saturated on large file transfers such as RAW files, but bogged down by about 40% on directory trees full of smaller files, presumably due to the overhead of directory transactions on the HDDs. That's good enough for me---a 1-terabyte update took about 3 hours, and the average non-shooting-day backup is closer to 5 minutes--both of which take place comfortably during my sleep. Your mileage my vary, especially if you use fancier NAS services that require more CPU cycles. But for my purpose, these little boxes are handy and cost-effective.

Using to transport may external hard drive when I travel.