Hi Peter. I bought a Samsung SSD from Officeworks for quite a reasonable price about 6 months ago. I use it for my monthly “safe” backup. What used to take a long time with a Hard Drive (I use Superduper), now takes 7 minutes and then back in my safe. Might be worth checking Officworks website.
I think I paid $134.00 for a 500GB. > On 7 Aug 2020, at 4:09 pm, Adam Lippiatt <[email protected]> wrote: > > I would be interested too. > > I use HDD for backup purposes ($ spent on reliability not speed) but was > considering for a while some of these new SSDs to put my primary data on > instead of relying on the spinning drive portion of the fusion drive in my > late 2013 iMac, but judged it not worth it as it only has thunderbolt 1 ports > which don’t give you access to the little non powered thunderbolt 3 cases > that are quite popular and speedy now. > > I hear that quality SSDs last long enough these days not to matter. (SSDs do > lose storage capacity over time while spinning drives do not. However the > degradation is slow and doesn’t seem to matter for general use so far as I > know.) > > As you have everything backed up, a failed SSD shouldn’t be much of a bother. > >> On 7 Aug 2020, at 3:53 pm, Julie Bedford <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> No they were normal drives - sorry overlooked the SSD in your email. >> Would be interested to learn if you buy, how much etc. >> >> Jewels >> >> >>> On 7 Aug 2020, at 1:25 pm, Peter Curtis <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Jewels >>> Were they SSD or normal drives? >>> Peter >>> >>>>> On 7 Aug 2020, at 1:11 pm, Julie Bedford <[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]> 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> >>>>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>>>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>>>> <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> >>> >>> -- 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> >> >> -- 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> > -- 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> Regards, Stephen Chape
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