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I have two or three external drives fail on me over the years, so I have become a little distrustful of them. Each time I was able to remove the drive from its enclosure and install it as an internal drive instead. They have all worked since, so it was indeed the enclosure that failed. However many newer external drives are built differently so you cannot crack them open and do what I did. I bought a 4TB extrenal drive, but the speed got on my nerves. As well as needing to wake up the drive after a period of time, oh how that drives me nuts.
What I ended up doing was buying a fast 4TB internal drive for my library. A 10000 RPM Western Digital Black. These are cheap, so they are easy upgrades, and you do not need to worry about USB issues or enclosures failing. However, after a while I still wanted more, LOL. I made a crazier move and bought a Samsung 4TB SSD (870 EVO). It cost over 4 times as much. I placed all my Daz content there, and only my Daz content. It is working great, though!
I will use the extra 4TB as backups going forward rather than daily drivers. And an external is still great for being able to take your library to another computer.
UPDATE:
Good points:
- The biggest shock is how quiet the SSD is. Normally, the house would be rumbling (okay, so that's a bit of an exaggeration - but it's not completely far from the truth), to the vibration of the HDD. And the tower itself is much lighter in weight too.
- It's pretty fast (although, not render tested).
- The computer is now booting and shutting down with the external HDD attached.
The "not so good" points:
- I've updated the USB ports. But now the front USB ports aren't working. The computer is picking something up (which I assume is/are those two ports at the front of the tower), but it in Device Manager, whatever it is has got that exclamation mark next to it. I have no idea how to correct it, without messing something else up.
- I've got to re-install EVERYTHING! Daz Studio, content, plugins, scripts, etc.
I've had a crappy day, so I'm worn out mentally. It didn't leave me feeling too good when I found out that everything would have to be re-installed. But, at least I can trim down my Library.
Then I couldn't buy Cleopatra 8.1, thanks to P/Pal.
I'd quite like to be rained on by water, just for one day. And not have to swim through a deluge of poop.
If the ports aren't connected to anything it's probably a driver problem. You could try to uninstall those with exclamation marks and reboot, to see if that helps.
You can disable the driver's with exclamation points & if nothing's connected you computer will do fine. Personally I'd choose uninstalled driver and remove the driver software too. It's an option in the Device Manager when you right click. Use it a couple days see how it does and it it has not problems then try to until the drivers again but only if they are installed by Windows 10 Update and not through no other means. I did that with my old HP 8470P Elitebook and never did install any drivers for the hardware I disabled in Windows 10. You can do that with some hardware, not all hardware though.
Anyway, seeing all you've done already to troubleshoot the problem, the problem is software or drivers that you've installed have been badly written and not the hardware.