I have ordered a WD 2tb from Amazon, cheers.
WD 2tb my passportCan I please ask which specific model was it that you bought?
Thank youWD 2tb my passport
Buy the better Western Digital ones that have good speed.
Avoid cheap Seagate ones.
Just my opinion, im sure others will say the other way around.
I also do prefer WD or Toshiba over Seagate, however all HDD's fail so best to have two or more backups of anything that is important.
Synology or QNAP NAS is a good option for data redundancy and you can use them for a bunch of other things like virtual machines if you are so inclined.
Yes it is a good option and I have tried it but prefer the standalone HDD option. I have a usb 3 dock that takes two 2.5/3.5 HDD and that works fine for me.Synology or QNAP NAS is a good option for data redundancy and you can use them for a bunch of other things like virtual machines if you are so inclined.
for storage and backup,are HDDSATA still preferred over SSD for longevity or is there little differenece?
and i guess speed isnt really an issue on storage?Two advantages:-
Price/Capacity Costs
In the evnt of failure a mechanical disk may be recoverable, but an SSD is toast!
and i guess speed isnt really an issue on storage?
Yes and you should buy the right type of HDD for the intended use - for eaxmple with WD they colour co9de their drives
WD Hard Drive Color Differences - Blue, Green, Black, Red, Purple
WD has Green HDD/Blue HDD/Black HDD/Red HDD/Purple HDD, also the Enterprise grade HDD. Each of color can represent the application that HDD fits. What's the difference between them?www.unifore.net
I have Red in my NAS along with a purple for my CCTV, and Black drives in my main PC supporting SSD's
Blue is fine for USB caddy backup type drives.
I think SSD is more reliable. No mechanical parts is better than mechanical by any stretch. Whether it is worth the money or not is only known to you.
Here is the latest data from Backblaze who publish their failure rates periodically.
Study Shows SSDs Are More Reliable than HDDs
An excellent side effect of no moving partswww.tomshardware.com
Thats a little misleading, as the average age of HDD's under test is several years older than the SSDs, I don't doubt long term SSDs will be the weapon of choice, but for Jo Public, they are still an expensive option, I have 16Tb in my NAS drive, and 8Tb in my main PC (along with SSDs) - buying high capacity SSDs for these would set me back something north of 2K (6 x 4Tb SSD)
ok let me be a little more definitive????
i want to have my photos app on my internal SSD on my Imac,I want my photo library on the external drive so i click on a photo do some editing and done.
Im only needing for this project a 550gig drive,if i go ssd im looking at £71 for the samsung T7,if i go hdd im looking at Lacie 1TB same price,yes i get an xtra half a TB ,forget that and do you think in practice the SSD would be more nippy or will it be curtailed by the connection,both usb C ?
If it was me I would buy the Crucial MX500 (500GB for £55 or 1TB for £85) with the Sabrent external enclosure. The 500GB is cheaper than the T7 with a longer warranty and it is a better SSD altogether. I dare say the MX500 is the best mainstream SSD on the market. I have two running flawlessly, one in a laptop and one in exactly the setup above.
I've ordered a Sandisk Extreme portable SSD which are extremely well reviewed.
I don’t know about that. NVME is double the price of SATA SSD, I don’t think it’s anywhere near attractive pricing.Hmm! When needed I think I would be torn between ^^^ one and the Crucial X8
Hmm! When needed I think I would be torn between ^^^ one and the Crucial X8
I got the 1TB for £112 from Amazon Warehouse. It's the one one that seems to get 100% reviews from everyone, including us MAC users and that's from over 2k reviews. Sandisk cards have always been spot on for me so I'd expect this SSD to be the same.
Fair point.....my "go to" CF and now SD cards have always been SanDisk. But when I updated my PC with new C & E drives I got Crucial MX50O series ones.