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But it doesn't work like "rsync/scp/sftp over USB". No seek or partial transfer support makes it a dog. Very poor cross-platform support makes it a terrible choice.

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It is still a million times better choice than mounting the device directly as a block device.

A read only block device would have been better and would actually work on non-Windows OSes.

You only read from your external storage and never write to it, from the computer?

Sure, with an option to enable write with the usual "omg ur apps!" warning.

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