randym77 posted at 5:13 PM Sat, 28 October 2023 - #4476960

What are USB stacks?

I have a bunch of external drives, but Windows tends to lose some of them, which is really annoying.

Sorry I should have used the correct term, they are hard drive docking stations.  The ones I am using are Sabrent 4 bay docking stations which can house up to 4 SSDs each and can provide cooling if required.  I started using them some months ago when I moved over to using a mini PC and wanted even more desk space.  Before that I was using a large number of SSDs all in individual external housings.  Each docking station can support up to 64Tb but in my case one station is equipped with a batch of Samsung 2TB 870 QVOs giving 8Tb.  The other station and a mixture of SSD drives I purchased in 2018 during an earlier upgrade and are Crucial  MX500s of a 500g or 1TB capacity.  I may be tempting fate but so far none of the MX500s have failed despite being used on an almost daily basis.

The three SSDs in the mini PC has all programs running on the 'C' drive, all my financial records on Drive 'A' and all my supporting Poser files on Drive 'M' which includes all my runtimes, working scenes, support files and my content database.  Files in the docking station store all my photographs, multimedia data that includes my music and E book collections and household documentation.  I only have three spinners left, if you ignore my NAS systems, which are 4Tb units and share a 2 bay docking station as required.

 

 

I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 -  Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB  storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU .   The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.