Thanks Pete, sorry I misread Peter’s email. They were HDDs. I may myself look at the SSD external drive, but always thought they were hugely more expensive. Always have an SDD on my Mac though.
Thanks Jewels > On 7 Aug 2020, at 1:28 pm, Peter <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Julie that is lucky you were able to transfer data before anything got > lost. Peter’s original question however relates to whether external SSD > drives are more reliable and it wasn’t clear from your email if your drives > were HDD (mechanical spinning disc drives) or SSD (solid state drives). > > My experience has been to trust SSD devices more than HDD drive devices. It > stands to reason that something mechanical and moving in principle is going > to fail at some point where solid state devices have potentially an > indefinite life - though there may be reasons that can’t be. SSD is likely to > be more robust against accidental dropping too where an HDD not so likely. > SSD drives are likely quicker too though can be a function of USB connection > generation (2.0 or 3.0). > > I would lean to SSD Peter if I was buying now but I have quite a number of > HDD external drives and they have been reliable for many years for me. Always > a good policy to have backup of all data too - including your externally > attached drives - to Time Machine so you can sleep at night about the > potential loss of data not being disastrous. The price of HDD external drives > is so very cheap now too where SSD a bit dearer for the same capacity. Always > go a good named brand. > > Pete. > >> On 7 Aug 2020, at 1:11 pm, Julie Bedford <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Hi Peter >> >> I have just had 2 external hard drives fail me - about 2 years old. Luckily >> I managed to transfer the files to another >> external one. Both were Toshiba. >> >> Hope that helps >> >> Cheers >> Jewels >> >> >>> On 7 Aug 2020, at 11:43 am, Peter Curtis <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi everyone >>> Are the external ssd hard drives more reliable than the normal external >>> hard drives? >>> Kind regards >>> Peter >>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml >>> <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml>> >>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml >>> <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml>> >>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug >>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml >> <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml>> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml >> <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml>> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
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