catloaf

I'm sure they were buying it for a video anyway.

Very Doubtful

Do we really need to post spam here?

Disconnect the other drive when you do it and you'll be fine.

Images in the terminal? At that point you're just reinventing the GUI.

You think that traffic should be unencrypted?

SMART data can be hard to read. But it doesn't look like any of the normalized values are approaching the failure thresholds. It doesn't show any bad sectors. But it does show read errors.

I would check the cable first, make sure it's securely connected. You said it clicks sometimes, but that could be normal. Check the kernel log/dmesg for errors. Keep an eye on the SMART values to see if they're trending towards the failure thresholds.

Anything that needs a lot of data. Same reason you'd download something to your PC instead of streaming it.

Also for local processing before upload. If you have a huge data set that compresses well, it's much better to compress first, then upload to Earth.

It's called caching and it's been mostly solved for decades (except invalidation).

I don't understand the purpose of this post

I did. They bought on Newegg, which is a platform. Some items are shipped and sold by Newegg, some are third-party, just like Amazon. OP did not confirm who actually fulfilled the order in the post.

What is this world coming to, even Mom™ is being privatized