Getting 500 GB SSD for <$100 is probably not going to happen. I personally like the form factor of Western Digital Passport drives as they are USB powered, USB 3, and small form factor. I get decent performance out of it, and so long as your backups are incremental, after the initial sync, the future changesets should be fairly small.
-jason On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 11:37 AM, Brad Fonseca via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote: > Hello! > > I am in the market for a new portable hard drive in order back up my > files on my Linux system (running Mageia 5.1). My requirements are: > > - Reliable > - Portable > - Price Under $100 > - at least 500 GB in size > - USB-powered (I don't want to have to deal with plugging it in) > - no additional software included (an empty file system without having > to immediately reformat the drive if possible) > - Fast file transfer and retrieval rates (SSD with USB 3.0?) > > In addition, I'd like some recommendations regarding good Linux-based > back-up software. I've looked at luckyBackup > (http://luckybackup.sourceforge.net/) based on some articles I've read > but I know this group probably has some well-tested applications they > prefer. Ideally, the application will have good documentation and/or an > easy-to-use interface. > > Thanks so much in advance! > > Brad > > -- > Brad Fonseca > Mobile: 416-876-2191 > --- > Talk Mailing List > talk@gtalug.org > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >
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