SSD external drive?

[MEANZ06]

What do you use? Looking for at least a 1T for storing movies and some pics. The movies are averaged 2gb so not that big.

My old external is not SSD and I fear losing everything on it and having to my start my collection over

What you got and how long has it lasted?

[z06psi]

External.

Why?

[MEANZ06]

External.

Why?

I move it around to different TV's for my wife :cert:

[z06psi]

How about a network book and no more moving it around?

[MEANZ06]

How about a network book and no more moving it around?

I have no idea what that is and the more complicated, the more pissed off I get. Trying to stick to what I know :seasix:

[Louie Detroit]

How about a Cloud Server?

[MEANZ06]

How about a Cloud Server?

Again, I don't know how all that works. My patience is thin and I don't want to start breaking shit.

External drive, download to it, unplug it plug it in where she wants it, done :cert:

[z06psi]

Western digital MyBook.

Look it up.

[z06psi]

I can stream all my homemade porn movies to all my TVs.

[Louie Detroit]

Snag a WD 32 terabyte HD, data redundant, and with a UPS is all you'll ever need. It's just a big external HD. :)

[MEANZ06]

I can stream all my homemade porn movies to all my TVs.

I call bullshit without pics :D :datawiz:

[MEANZ06]

Snag a WD 32 terabyte HD, data redundant, and with a UPS is all you'll ever need. It's just a big external HD. :)

32 TB is a bit extreme 1 Tb is good enough for us

[Olustee bus]

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/mass-data-wipe-in-my-book-devices-prompts-warning-from-western-digital/

[Chemtrails99]

External memory is so cheap now that I go overboard in saving important files. I have a large amount of raw photo images I've taken and need to save long term. At first I was buying 1Gig SSD for it, now 30 gig or more is just as cheap, so I buy that size. In addition, I often buy two drives and save the same thing to both. One gets used, the other stored in case of failure of a drive. Pretty much all the major brand names are good quaility drives for me so far.

[DJ_Critterus]

What do you use? Looking for at least a 1T for storing movies and some pics. The movies are averaged 2gb so not that big.

My old external is not SSD and I fear losing everything on it and having to my start my collection over

What you got and how long has it lasted?

check online. You can get a 4TB for about $130 or so.

[Strats-N-Vettes]

Buffalo 1TB SSD for around a hundred clams.

I use a Seagate 4TB for the same price...but its HDD.
both are USB connected, select 3.0 or 3.2....both are about the size of a wallet.

[Olustee bus]

I have this to get data off of a dead laptop.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EHDTRJ6?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1

Could I use this as a storage hard drive or should I get a SSD external hard drive.

[Louie Detroit]

I have this to get data off of a dead laptop.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EHDTRJ6?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1

Could I use this as a storage hard drive or should I get a SSD external hard drive.

Thanks for the link dude, I just snapped up one of these mugs. :kimblair:

[DJ_Critterus]

I have this to get data off of a dead laptop.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EHDTRJ6?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1

Could I use this as a storage hard drive or should I get a SSD external hard drive.

The original drive failed for a reason. Get what you can off of it and get the SSD external drive.

I had a friend of mine get one of these recently and he's happy with it.
https://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Elements-Portable-External/dp/B0713WPGLL/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=4tb%2Bssd%2Bexternal%2Bhard%2Bdrive&qid=1650297036&sr=8-4&th=1

[Louie Detroit]

The original drive failed for a reason. Get what you can off of it and get the SSD external drive.

I had a friend of mine get one of these recently and he's happy with it.
https://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Elements-Portable-External/dp/B0713WPGLL/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=4tb%2Bssd%2Bexternal%2Bhard%2Bdrive&qid=1650297036&sr=8-4&th=1

You can get the 5TB version for five extra bucks, delivered apparently zero dark thirty tomorrow if desired.

[BayouCountry]

What do you use? Looking for at least a 1T for storing movies and some pics. The movies are averaged 2gb so not that big.

My old external is not SSD and I fear losing everything on it and having to my start my collection over

What you got and how long has it lasted?

Exactly how I felt about my old laptop.

I swapped out my old MacBook drive with a Samsung SSD about four years ago. It's still going strong. The SSD increased performance so much that my 12yo laptop doesn't need replacing.

I use Bestbuy because I want to be sure I get a new product.

[DJ_Critterus]

You can get the 5TB version for five extra bucks, delivered apparently zero dark thirty tomorrow if desired.

That's a lot of porn, but hey...ya do what ya gotta do!

[Louie Detroit]

That's a lot of porn, but hey...ya do what ya gotta do!

Too much free pron out there, I utilize my bytes for more serious bidness. :datawiz:

[dvarapala]

I can stream all my homemade porn movies to all my TVs.

:yesnod:

And, because you put them on the network, I can also stream them to mine. :D

[theandies]

I have at 2 SSD drives and 1 old HDD external drive for backups and to move around between my devices. Best part when I unplug them they are not connected to the internet.

My experience with NAS drives is they are sometimes a bitch to get working across your network. I used a WD NAS for years and it was unreliable as a network drive. Sometimes I could access it and sometimes it was a bitch.

Then I get this e-mail from WD that and NAS owner of a certain model needs to check it because WD found out they were being hacked and all info lost. I hadn't been on mine for a few months and sure enough all my data was gone. Luckily I'm not stupid and have other backups of that data. I will never buy anther NAS type drive because of this.


BTW I took my old NAS drive apart, ditched the NAS circuit board and formatted the 2TB HDD then bought a HDD/USB adaptor and now it is permanently connected to my smart TV via USB with all my movies and videos on it. Works great and again not connected directly to the internet.

[09CTSV]

I use these https://smile.amazon.com/Netac-External-Portable-Aluminium-Expansion/dp/B088BTSWV4/ref=sr_1_4?crid=LP52F1JLTFFS&keywords=netac%2Bssd&qid=1650323803&sprefix=neat%2Caps%2C97&sr=8-4&th=1
We used them at work to transfer data or back up one drive as people were retiring or changing positions. Fast and reliable.

[Olustee bus]

Turns out that I have a SSD hard drive I forgot about. It is only a 160 GB drive. I guess I did not want to spend another 10 or so bucks for a bigger one. :slap:

[snide]

:yesnod:

And, because you put them on the network, I can also stream them to mine. :D

Not something I'd brag about... :shrug:

[MadInNc]

You can get the 5TB version for five extra bucks, delivered apparently zero dark thirty tomorrow if desired.

5 & 4 TB are HDD, not SSD

[kingpin]

What do you use? Looking for at least a 1T for storing movies and some pics. The movies are averaged 2gb so not that big.

My old external is not SSD and I fear losing everything on it and having to my start my collection over

What you got and how long has it lasted?

Get with the times old man.
Go big or go home pu$$y. :D

[MEANZ06]

Get with the times old man.
Go big or go home pu$$y. :D

Well looky here who crawled out the woodwork. Hope all is well for you :cert: