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These things don't seem to last very long, do they? (infosec.pub)

submitted 3 days ago by tetris11@feddit.uk to c/casualuk@feddit.uk

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I have three of these I've collected over the last 3 years, and none of them work anymore.

Is this the new USB-C future we were promised? With a single-point of failure for everything as the number of ports on laptop decreases year-on-year?

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[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 4 points 2 days ago

The answer is, you have to buy a Proper ™️ one.

With active cooling, a power supply, and proper Lightning etc. support.

I buy Dell WD19TB units second hand from CeX for about £60. New, they cost several hundred.
Even then, they have issues (fans staying on, and a STUPID bug where turning off the machine causes power-off packets to spam the network).
But for general work, they're very reliable.