New external hard drive?

seaodyssey said:
and some flash based memory will last longer than others.
SSD come in various ratings, consumer, commercial with price tags to match.
Just because it's called PRO does not mean its the best.
I only use Samsung for SSD, never had a problem, touch wood so far, other makes I have known to fail and you tend to lose the whole drive without warning.
HDD normally give an indication that they are going to fail, which will give you a short while to replace the drive with little data lost.
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Tell me about it we use industrial SSDs at work getting on for £3,000 for a 1TB at the minute.
 
Thanks all. I swap my ssds over once a month (I keep one at work and one at home) and update them with latest photos and other things I backup

I'm not sure how long they need plugging in to keep their charge but I tend to leave them in for 30 mins while I also browse etc
 
inquisitive_chap said:
Thanks all. I swap my ssds over once a month (I keep one at work and one at home) and update them with latest photos and other things I backup

I'm not sure how long they need plugging in to keep their charge but I tend to leave them in for 30 mins while I also browse etc
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If you're plugging them in once a month that's plenty, you're looking at years for data loss generally.
 
seaodyssey said:
I only use Samsung for SSD, never had a problem, touch wood so far, other makes I have known to fail and you tend to lose the whole drive without warning.
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On the flip side, I had my first SSD failure a couple of weeks ago with a four year old 2TB Samsung T7 that stopped reading and writing overnight. It just sits there doing nothing and getting hot.

Data was safely backed up, so that wasn't a problem, fortunately. And I had plenty of space on some spinning rust drives to recover it to. Annoying nevertheless.
 
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Musicman said:
When I first got started in computer retail in the early 1990s, HDDs were around £1000 per GB, plus VAT
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I'm old enough that my first (IBM) PC was an Amstrad 1640 - an original IBM PC copy with a massive (for the time) 640k of ram. I paid extra for the 32Mb Hard Disk option - I can't remember how much the HD was, but it would have been at least £100, so over £3k/Gb (before considering what inflation would do).
Note: Not my first computer, that was a Sinclair ZX-80, a rather more humble item.
 
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We had a ZX81 which came with 1K memory, although we did acquire a 16K add on RAM pack.

Not that this has anything to do with hard drives.
 
I never really noticed how we've moved away from sitting the monitor on top of the computer. Spectrum ZX 48k was my first computer, with those pesky rubber keys and a separate tape deck and the lottery as to whether or not a game would load. But that being said, the Spectrum and later the Atari ST made a lot of very fond gaming memories.
 
I had an Apple IIe for a while (came old and FOC) with base unit including built-in keyboard, twin floppy drives and green screen on top of it all.
 
My first microcomputer was a Nascom1, where you had to solder all the chips, resisters and capacitors onto the board. It had 4kb of memory and you had to program in z80 machine Hex code. It did have a good keyboard, used a TV as a screen and a cassette as storage.
It took a while to get it working.
 
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