I went the DIY route I could choose the drive (flash endurance) and potentially hand-me-down it for some random internal computer duty in the future. The enclosures are super cheap anyway, makes it easy to replace if I drop it and break the port or something.
All I remember from Blood+ is the girl activating the sword with her blood (or maybe that was another series), too gory for me lol they repeated that scene like every battle like a mahou shoujo transformation.
On an Apple Silicon Mac it's a complete mess. Cables/USB>SATA chipsets/ports and the USB Gen 69.420 Birth by Sleep shenanigans means it only negotiates at 5Gbps (SATA III is 6Gbps, the port should support 10Gbps). One enclosure I have does negotiate at 10Gbps but the drive doesn't "mount" properly in the OS, go figure ahahah.
Yikes what a pain. I also DIY these for the things you mentioned, the enclosures are dirt cheap but often can be found in nice aluminium and I perceive the drives that I choose to be of a higher quality (sustained speeds and endurance) than what historically was like a brands' B-Stock in premades. Not to mention that Sandisk has some MAJOR issue with a recent external SSD module. My DIY external spinning plater HDD from 12+ years ago still works fine though it is very small now @ 400GB!
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