Hi again folks. I just checked Officeworks. They have a Samsung 500GB SSD for $124.00
Samsung 500GB Portable Solid State Drive T5 > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Stephen Chape <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: SSD external harddrives > Date: 7 Aug 2020 at 5:42:45 pm AWST > To: WAMUG Mailing List <[email protected]> > > 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 $134.00 for a 500GB. > >> On 7 Aug 2020, at 4:09 pm, Adam Lippiatt <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> I would be interested too. >> >> I use HDD for backup purposes ($ 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] >>> <mailto:[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] >>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi Jewels >>>> Were they SSD or normal drives? >>>> Peter >>>> >>>>>> 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 >>>> <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 >> <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>> > > > Regards, > Stephen Chape > > > > > > Regards, Stephen Chape
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