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I thought mechanical drives are Ok to move around if they are powered off.
Yeah but we're talking 2.5 inch drives, and we're talking about less than a terabyte of storage. There is no good reason to pick a physical drive HDD over an SSD when they're practically the same price at that storage level. SSDs are simply safer to move, there are no moving parts, dropping an SSD isn't that concerning, dropping an HDD can easily kill it. I mean think of this this way. There IS a physical reader that goes across the entire disk. That doesn't exist in an SSD. It's hard to do, but you can realistically take a hard drive and just SHAKE it to death with your hand, make the reader fall out of place. While shaking a solid state is more like just shaking a giant flash drive.
Thanks! I decided to go the ssd route. It’s priced about the same as a usb drive of the same capacity and I have spare enclosures.