Frankly, I hate external drives. Except for "pack it up and keep it safe" backup purposes I consider them useless desktop-space-sucking cable-octopus-ing wall-wart spawning monsters . . .

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:lol: You've got that right! Daisy chains were bad enough back when SCSI peripherals had internal PSUs and were heavy enough to stay in place while keeping the cable monster at bay. The cables on my lump-on-a-rope USB stuff tend to shove the friggin' peripherals around the desktop when they're not busy knockin' over the vertical "space saving" variety.

My nomination goes to a new 9" Rackmount Standard with:

_____a big universal wall-wart eradicator/PSU/Surge Protector/Battery Backup Anchor at the base

_____four modular glass and I/O panel equipped doors

_____a 9" fan at the top of an efficient convection chimney

_____and a metric crapload of other features I don't have the time to rant about ATM! }