Squarecell – I have never heard of this before? Surely a properly insulated drive (Plastic body) can’t be susceptible to static shocks?
Back on topic:
I have done this before – It works fine as long as the USB drive is reasonably fast. So I mean ideally a USB 3.0 which is rated at least 100Mb/s. I use one (Sandisk Extreme) which is rated 240Mb/s. It is actually faster loading tracks from that than it is from the internal drive. However, I wouldn’t use it for all my storage as frankly I prefer having it all on my internal HDD… That’s just me though..
On the USB I actually have an install of windows which can entirely replace my internal drive if it corrupts. So I can still DJ even without an internal drive..
On top of that, my music library (and every other file I own) is on at least 3 different HDD’s at any one time. Plus a backup in a different city (back at my parent’s house) on a NAS drive which I update every week or so..
My data is more valuable to me than anything else I own. The amount of time that I (and any other DJ) has put into our music collection is worth thousands of pounds on its own. Protect your data – make backups. Storage is so cheap that there is no reason not to these days.. 🙂
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