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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Hi! My PC (Windows 10 in SSD, 3,40 GHz CPU, 24 GB RAM) takes a very long time (minutes) to show in File Explorer a LaCie 5 TB exFAT external HDD connected via USB-C: is this "normal"? Thank you (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It only takes a few seconds in a more recent (2018) Dell laptop with Windows 11 in SSD, 4,60 GHz CPU and 16 GB RAM. Finally, the same PC and laptop both take only instans to show another LaCie HDD, 1 TB and NTFS in this case. Does it all depend on the quintuple capacity of the first HDD, maybe due to indexing time? Or would it be better to try formatting it in NTFS as well? Or something else yet?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Compare the power settings between both computers, it may be set to different polling times for usb / hard drives.

Cant hurt to check what crystal disk info says while you are at it.