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Based on your comments and replies, it’s quite likely you’re just fine with your current setup.
Portable media is quite cheap nowadays – IIRC, I’ve seen a 2 TB external drive for about $100 recently.
Your computer issue is interesting.
Debugging PC problems can be quite difficult, tedious and frustrating.
Issues can be hardware, software or driver based. That’s not even looking at network issues, and incompatibilities between two items that each work fine on their own.