Have you tried Aldi or Lidl. They stock strong bread flour in the UK (>60p) and it's great for bread making.

Yum, beats shop bread every time.

It's best to keep the SSD purely for the operating system and use your existing drive for data files.
SSDs will expire quicker the more the drive is used so just reading the OS from it reduces unnecessary read/writes.
I do agree using external drives over USB is slower than with internal drives. I'm presuming the use of a PC base unit which can hold several hard disks rather than a singe drive laptop.

Sorry, Alina Jenkins last night was the closest.

Thank you too Peter.

Thanks!

Yes, very briefly wasn't it? Blink and you'd have missed it.
Think it was the rainbow that did it!

Hope the camera survived the fall.

This month's competition is to produce a photograph that would look good on the front of a Christmas card. By all means annotate it with a seasonal greeting if you wish to finish it off. Let is all look forward to seeing each other's cards by the end of the month.

The photograph has to be shot on a Pentax or related camera this month, December 2019, and uploaded by midnight Tuesday 31st December GMT (New Year's Eve.) The winner will then be expected to set up and judge next month's competition.

Find the competition here: link

I use a QNAP NAS and access it with Explorer on Win10 just fine. I did use a WD cloud drive but it used flash for its front end. The QNAP allows me to host my own web server from home and offers the facility for shared partitions too. All in all a much better purchase. I access the QNAP either through the web or directly over the home network. It has a PC program that finds the drive on the network and sets up the link and assigns a drive letter.
I recall I did have direct Explorer drive letters set up for the WD Cloud drive though that was (and and still is) on my Win 7 PC. The (rather poor) flash based web portal that had was disabled due to security concerns so the drive is now unused. The QNAP is miles better! Other similar drives are made by Synology.

Why not use Windows explorer? I presume you're FTP'ing to the drive presently?