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External drives shutting off when they or others are accessed

External hard drives have become a very popular method of expanding your computer's storage capacity, but despite this convenience, they also can become a cluttered mess. I've seen users attach numerous external drives at once, with webs of daisy-chained drives connected through various hubs and keyboards as well as being directly connected to the computer.

With these setups, and even with simpler ones with only a few devices, people have reported some of the drives in the chain unmounting and giving a system error even when they are not the ones being accessed. This may happen randomly as … Read more