Which external drive – SSD?

[seadragon]

Any view on the one to have? I am looking for maybe 500gb/1tb.

Don’t want to spend crazy amounts, but I might as well future proof myself as much as possible now and go SSD.

If I am wrong I am happy to be enlightened. I am also aware that SSD drives are a premium price right now.

[P4ulB]

For an external drive, I personally wouldn't bother with an SSD - you'll get a lot more storage for your money using a conventional hard drive.

Also, although an SSD will be fast, any gain is potentially likely to be crippled by the USB interface.

What are you planning on using it for?

[nyt]

Make sure it's USB3.

Perhaps omething like: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Seagate-Expansion-desktop-...

3TB for £69

[seadragon]

It will mostly be use for storing photos. I assume I can store music on there too. I dont really know about this kind of thing. I have an old laptop and I remember using a 8GB usb stick to store data on.

I am getting a new laptop so want to transfer the data from my old one. I also want to share the drive between my laptop and also the ipad air we have at home. not sure if this is viable or not, I am just trying to avoid losing all my music, photos and other private files relating to mortgage, insurance, etc etc

[zedx19]

Sounds to me like you want Cloud storage, save everything to that, download Cloud service on Ipad and voila, all data is there. Install Cloud service on new laptop and all data is there. House burns down with your laptop in it and your data is still safe. Backing up to an external SSD is not a good way to save important photos and files.

Skydrive, Dropbox, Google Drive etc etc etc

[eltawater]

seadragon said:

I am just trying to avoid losing all my music, photos and other private files relating to mortgage, insurance, etc etc

So you want to put them all onto a nice, droppable device with no redundancy against hardware failure?

[Vipers]

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nyt said:

Make sure it's USB3.

Perhaps omething like: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Seagate-Expansion-desktop-...

3TB for £69

Errrrr about £154 did you quote the wrong link, looks like it's the American site.

Although your link,says .co.uk, it came up as .com when I clicked on it.

[TonyRPH]

Vipers said:

Errrrr about £154 did you quote the wrong link, looks like it's the American site.

Although your link,says .co.uk, it came up as .com when I clicked on it.

£70 when I clicked on it - and it went to the UK site.

It's probably the link skimming that PH does that sent you to a US site - or you're using a proxy.

[nyt]

Vipers said:

C

nyt said:

Make sure it's USB3.

Perhaps omething like: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Seagate-Expansion-desktop-...

3TB for £69

Errrrr about £154 did you quote the wrong link, looks like it's the American site.

Although your link,says .co.uk, it came up as .com when I clicked on it.

Interesting .. must be something up with your PC

Here's what I see:

Seagate Expansion 3TB USB 3.0 desktop 3.5 inch external hard drive
by Seagate
3,321 customer reviews | 73 answered questions
RRP: £139.99
Price: £69.98 & FREE Delivery in the UK. Details
You Save: £70.01 (50%)

[The_Jackal]

I see the uk link too....69.98
Bargain.

[Vipers]

nyt said:

Vipers said:

C

nyt said:

Make sure it's USB3.

Perhaps omething like: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Seagate-Expansion-desktop-...

3TB for £69

Errrrr about £154 did you quote the wrong link, looks like it's the American site.

Although your link,says .co.uk, it came up as .com when I clicked on it.

Interesting .. must be something up with your PC

Here's what I see:

Seagate Expansion 3TB USB 3.0 desktop 3.5 inch external hard drive
by Seagate
3,321 customer reviews | 73 answered questions
RRP: £139.99
Price: £69.98 & FREE Delivery in the UK. Details
You Save: £70.01 (50%)

Tis strange when I click on the link this comes up, then the site in the states, also strange the same item there is $230



Assuming this is the same item.



Not to worry.

[nyt]

Well you could change the .com to .co.uk and you'd see the page that you need. But the drive is up to 80 pounds today.

More importantly, I don't think that you should be seeing the redirectingat.com link that's in the address bar of your screenshot.
Is something in your browser doing that?
If I were you I'd check for dodgy browser extensions and viruses.

[Vipers]

nyt said:

Well you could change the .com to .co.uk and you'd see the page that you need. But the drive is up to 80 pounds today.

More importantly, I don't think that you should be seeing the redirectingat.com link that's in the address bar of your screenshot.
Is something in your browser doing that?
If I were you I'd check for dodgy browser extensions and viruses.

Thanks for that.

[jmorgan]

I would get at least two drives and keep one off site. I also have a third as a Time Machine. Cloud is there as well but I bank on at least one method failing at some point, be it a hard drive or a cockup with payments for the cloud and I lose my data. So I have also backed up to blu ray. Was reading somewhere that Hitachi drives are reliable (some article with drive failure rate last year)?

Me personally is very concerned if I have large drives and no backup for them. It is a lot to lose in one go if it fails.

[Vipers]

Amazing when you see a 5TB Hard drive for £120 which is about 3.6 mill old 1.44 MB floppies, which stacked up would be a tad over 6 miles high.

Hope I did the sums right.