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As for protecting it against any possible viral infections ... the only way to be certain that doesn't happen is to never plug it into another computer :-) Clearly that's not an option; so you need to simply be sure that every system you plug it into has up-to-date virus protection BEFORE you plug the drive in. As long as there's an up-to-date real-time virus scanner active on the system, it will prevent any infections to your drive. In addition, I'd be sure and run periodic full scans on the drive from your main system ... just to be sure.
One other alternative is to create a bootable USB flash drive with a good antivirus program and boot to it and do a full scan before connecting the larger drive => but that is VERY time-consuming. Better to simply ensure that all of the computers you connect to have proper anti-virus software.