External SSD drive recommendations: My SanDisk "Extreme Portable" external SSD drive just failed after less than a year of use. Does anyone have any positive experience with other...

Cheese

My SanDisk "Extreme Portable" external SSD drive just failed after less than a year of use. Does anyone have any positive experience with other brands? I'm looking for a 1TB capacity drive, and see quite a few in the $150 - $200 price range. I've noted some good online reviews of the Samsung and Seagate brands. Anyone have firsthand experience - positive or negative - with these or any other brands? Thanks.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

I use Intel SSDs. This is admittedly a small sample size, but I’ve been running half a dozen Intel drives for about 6 years without a failure (and just bought some more 540 series drives last week). I initially went with Intel because at the time I started moving to SSDs, Intel had the best reported reliability figures. Whether that’s still the case I can’t say, but when’s the last time you saw an Intel processor fail?

Howard5252 Loc: New York / Florida (now)

I have been using several Samsung SSD's for some time now. They are on the expensive side but hey have been both reliable and easy to transport - fitting into a shirt pocket.

larryepage Loc: North Texas area

I have been using Samsung solid state drives for probably 5 years with no failures. They are divided between drives mounted in computers and several that I have mounted in external USB enclosures.

Cheese

TriX wrote:

I use Intel SSDs. This is admittedly a small sample size, but I’ve been running half a dozen Intel drives for about 6 years without a failure (and just bought some more 540 series drives last week). I initially went with Intel because at the time I started moving to SSDs, Intel had the best reported reliability figures. Whether that’s still the case I can’t say, but when’s the last time you saw an Intel processor fail?

Thanks for the recommendation. At close to $500, these are outside my price point ... although the $200 drive that I had failed after just a year. Something to think about.

Cheese

Howard5252 wrote:

I have been using several Samsung SSD's for some time now. They are on the expensive side but hey have been both reliable and easy to transport - fitting into a shirt pocket.

Thanks.

Cheese

larryepage wrote:

I have been using Samsung solid state drives for probably 5 years with no failures. They are divided between drives mounted in computers and several that I have mounted in external USB enclosures.

Thanks.

TMcL

TriX wrote:

I use Intel SSDs. This is admittedly a small sample size, but I’ve been running half a dozen Intel drives for about 6 years without a failure (and just bought some more 540 series drives last week). I initially went with Intel because at the time I started moving to SSDs, Intel had the best reported reliability figures. Whether that’s still the case I can’t say, but when’s the last time you saw an Intel processor fail?

Isn't the 540 series an internal drive?

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I've been using four or five Samsung internal SSDs (250 and 500GB) since 2015. So far, so good.

Largobob

I use the Samsung SSD T5 (1TB) and am very satisfied. Bought it at B&H, Black Friday Sale.

picsman Loc: Scotland

I have a rugged Lacie, it seems fine so far.

Roy G Biv

Cheese wrote:

My SanDisk "Extreme Portable" external SSD drive just failed after less than a year of use. Does anyone have any positive experience with other brands? I'm looking for a 1TB capacity drive, and see quite a few in the $150 - $200 price range. I've noted some good online reviews of the Samsung and Seagate brands. Anyone have firsthand experience - positive or negative - with these or any other brands? Thanks.

I’ve used 1TB G-Technology for 2 years with no issues. It’s quite small and light but does have a ridiculously short USB connection cable, but I haven’t found any issue for travel.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1365963-REG/g_technology_0g06053_1tb_g_drive_mobile_ssd.html

I also have every episode of Monty Python and the Holy Grail on it and still have ~930GB of free space for photos and videos.

SpyderJan Loc: New Smyrna Beach. FL

I bought this on Amazon for $47.00

Toshiba HDTB410XK3AA Canvio Basics 1TB Portable External Hard Drive USB 3.0

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B079D359S6/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

It comes with a reasonable length USB 3.0 cord. I got a hard case also. So far it is working flawlessly.

foxfirerodandgun Loc: Stony Creek, VA

Howard5252 wrote:

I have been using several Samsung SSD's for some time now. They are on the expensive side but hey have been both reliable and easy to transport - fitting into a shirt pocket.

NCMtnMan Loc: N. Fork New River, Ashe Co., NC

Why are you using SSD for an external drive? There is little performance gain over a conventional drive when being use as an external because the connection to your system restricts the data flow. Neither USB 2.0 or 3.0 is as fast as the data flow internally.