Best way to add external storage

MisterEd
I totally agree
I have asked twice
Cost as you know is a good indicator except if you buy from a real shark - that prices the non genuine at the same price as the real item.

and as you say we do not know what the actual drive is in the enclosure
OR indeed as I asked - can the OP read the files he thinks he is copying to the drive.

Information about portable external drives being sold by Wish found at https://www.wish.com/search/portable%20external%20drive%2032%20TB


High-speed 8TB Portable External Hard Drive Mass Storage USB3.0 Interface Memory Metal Material 4 Colors Optional Plug and Play $15


High Speed 2TB/4TB Large Capacity Portable USB 3.0 Solid-state HDD / SSD Hard Drive Mobile Hard Disk Storage Device Disk for Home Office School Desktop Notebook Universal $29


NEW HDD USB3.0 SATA High Speed 2.5\\ External Hard Drive High Speed Portable 4TB 8TB Hard Disk USB 3.0 SATA Hard Storage Devices $23


WISH platform found at Wish (platform) - Wikipedia

• Wish was started by Piotr Szulczewski, a former Google engineer, as a software company called ContextLogic.
• As of 2019, Wish was the third-biggest e-commerce marketplace in the United States by sales
• Wish has been criticized for listing poor quality or counterfeit goods

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After I connected an external drive to a USB port on my PC I ran chkdsk /f . A message appeared in Event Viewer that said
Corruption detected in the file system of volume E. Take off line to perform a Full chkdsk.

I disconnected my PC from the Internet and connected the external drive to the PC then I ran chkdsk E: /f.
This time Chkdsk reparsed 3 records. I rebooted and reconnected the PC to the Internet. It still took 2 minutes
for the contents of E: drive to appear. Maybe I should reformat the drive?

KCav45

What we actually need to know is NOT the general nature of the advertised goods on Wish
What is vital to know is what did you buy and how much did the enclosure and the drive 2TB to go in it - cost
It is particularly unclear from your post - which drive you bought
I have mentioned cost before


From your actual posted adverts

Wish has been criticized for listing poor quality or counterfeit goods

and you can be assured that there is NO way that the posted prices can possibly represent a 2TB drive - they may represent the enclosure but certainly not a genuine quality SSD 2 TB or even a spinning 2TB hard drive.

At $53 for a 2TB SSD 2.5 drive it is I regret to tell you bound to be rubbish.

Plus which the advert is wrong as you cannot name a solid state drive a hard drive
SSD vs HDD: Which Is Best for You? – Intel

You cannot even buy a new (2.5 2TB hard drive of a reputable make for $53
You would get a Western Digital or Seagate for example factory refurbished for that, but $53 for a new 2TB SSD is just too cheap to be reliable

I am sure other members will agree.

I would like to thank you guy`s for your patience, I now know how to publish results obtained with chkdsk in Event Viewer.

Good luck with it
The results from event viewer when you open the log have a COPY on the lower left of the results window
You simply click that, it copies it to ram and you paste it to the reply here.

OR if you have more than one to do - you paste to notepad for example and then - from notepad - copy selection and paste here.