Bigger motor = more power? Not sure what the confusion is here.
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Well if you are fan of random disconnects..
Some people go to Vagas to gamble. Some stay at home and gamble there instead.
Well USB can only power a small mostly 2.5inch external drive and cannot really spin most large 3.5 inch drives.
And once you want larger sizes or more reliable enterprise drives which are in most large external usb drives you need power. If you are happy with a smaller ( and most likely less reliable ) 2.5 inch drive usb only is of course more convenient.
Actually USB-C could power it. Or at least some ports could. But USB-C is a clusterfuck hence…
Speed and Capacity.
On your same logic, why use USB when you could just use a NAS instead? You don't have to plug anything in.
Because 5TB has been the maximum for ages and isn‘t really all that useful