This is a slightly tangential follow-up question. Have been looking at 2TB external drives to format MBR as larger seem problematic. Partly due to the recent discovery that all the major HDD makers are secretly selling SMR drives (otherwise known as 'Archive') at 2TB and upwards, and partly due to the fact the Humax doesn't appear to power external drives down, so shortening lifespan needlessly, I've wondered about using an SSD external drive but formatted to MBR, which is considered less ideal than GPT for SSD. Not many write cycles for an occasionally used external SSD was my reasoning.
Does anyone have any experience of an SSD as an external drive?