Currently using a old Maplin external old fashioned HDD a few years old, nearly full and looking to replace it.
It is said to have a life span of 7-10 years .
Anyone had a Solid-State external drive which are a couple of hundred quid more , but is said to be a better method of
preserving files ?
Solid State Hard Drives
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Re: Solid State Hard Drives
They are more reliable AB as there are no moving parts and they are blisteringly fast.
Size and cost are the restrictions... I have a 256GB SSD just to run wildows and bits of other stuff and a more traditional 4TB drive for mass storage.
If you have never seen Windows boot from an SSD have a look at this:
Size and cost are the restrictions... I have a 256GB SSD just to run wildows and bits of other stuff and a more traditional 4TB drive for mass storage.
If you have never seen Windows boot from an SSD have a look at this:
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Re: Solid State Hard Drives
Mine used to fire up as fast as that before I installed hundreds of programs and other shit.
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Re: Solid State Hard Drives
Got one in my laptop...transfer speeds and boot up time much faster. Get one.
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Also you get more space than they say because of the way they lay out the memory. They add redundant space just in case any of it fails. There are onboard chips designed to swap and chop which parts are active to keep them all alive and anything you store on there is never instantly deleted.
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Re: Solid State Hard Drives
TL:DWDinger wrote:They are more reliable AB as there are no moving parts and they are blisteringly fast.
Size and cost are the restrictions... I have a 256GB SSD just to run wildows and bits of other stuff and a more traditional 4TB drive for mass storage.
If you have never seen Windows boot from an SSD have a look at this:
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Re: Solid State Hard Drives
The OP just wants a replacement for an external HD, no need for an SSD if he ain't booting up and running an OS. Think about alternative means of secure storage like a NAS or cloud.