Storage
Oct 4, 2018 19:34:56 #
Help please. My old iMac is maxed out of storage space for my pictures. I could spend $3,000 on a new Mac, however I would rather wait. If I purchased a quality external hard drive and exported all my photographs to that and then took all that are on my computer off I think this would help. Any suggestions? If so would some of you recommend a top shelf external hard drove and space size?
Thanks
Thanks
Oct 4, 2018 19:58:00 #
nadelewitz
Loc: Ithaca NY
External drive is a good idea, but NOT an SSD solid-state drive. An SSD should only be used as a system drive...operating system and applications. Must be a rotating-platter hard drive. Size-wise, there aren't "small" ones readily available anymore, so 1 TB (Terabyte)-on-up is what you'll see. Also consider strongly backing-up your storage drive regularly to insure against drive-failure loss of all your data. So, buy TWO external drives.
You can even buy external hard drive enclosures and fill them with whatever brand of drive you want. There are only three manufacturers anymore, and one is just as good as another...Seagate (includes Maxtor and Samsung), Western Digital (includes HGST), Toshiba.
You can even buy external hard drive enclosures and fill them with whatever brand of drive you want. There are only three manufacturers anymore, and one is just as good as another...Seagate (includes Maxtor and Samsung), Western Digital (includes HGST), Toshiba.
Oct 4, 2018 20:15:44 #
The ONLY reason not to use an SSD is price. In every other respect, it is superior to a conventional HD. I prefer Intel or Samsung. After 25 years with the largest storage companies in existence, I no longer use rotating media, I use intel SSD and use Amazon S3 “cloud” storage for a DR (disaster recovery) copy. If I needed to resort to a conventional HD (price/TB), I would pay the premium for an enterprise quality drive, preferably from HGST.
Oct 4, 2018 20:21:07 #
Oct 4, 2018 20:52:08 #
Will some of you give me suggestions on kind and make on Amazon or Adaorama etc.
Oct 4, 2018 21:01:49 #
Oct 4, 2018 21:24:34 #
Oct 4, 2018 21:35:17 #
nadelewitz wrote:
External drive is a good idea, but NOT an SSD soli... (show quote)
Excuse me? If you can afford it, why not use an external SSD? You have zero moving parts and an read/write cycle in the 6 figures. What is the issue?
Oct 5, 2018 00:53:44 #
Please give me an example....Thanks a lot of this is greek talk to a novice as me
Oct 5, 2018 01:45:12 #
Search “2 tb ssd” on Amazon. Lots of choices - just don’t buy the very cheapest one.
Andy
Andy
Oct 5, 2018 06:21:14 #
johnst1001a
Loc: West Chester, Ohio
First I ever heard of an issue with SSD's. Regardless, external drives are cheap. I have two 8 tb drives, I back up to both. I have has a non SSD external drive fail, thus dual backup.
Oct 5, 2018 06:51:24 #
jbk224
Loc: Long Island, NY
https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-1TB-Extreme-Portable-SDSSDE60-1T00-G25/dp/B078STRHBX/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1538736787&sr=1-2&keywords=sandisk+1tb+portable+ssd
https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-1TB-Extreme-Portable-SDSSDE60-1T00-G25/dp/B078STRHBX/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1538736565&sr=8-1&keywords=sandisk+1tb+ssd+portable
https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-T5-Portable-SSD-MU-PA1T0B/dp/B073H552FJ
https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-T5-Portable-SSD-MU-PA1T0B/dp/B073H4GPLQ?th=1
https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-1TB-Extreme-Portable-SDSSDE60-1T00-G25/dp/B078STRHBX/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1538736565&sr=8-1&keywords=sandisk+1tb+ssd+portable
https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-T5-Portable-SSD-MU-PA1T0B/dp/B073H552FJ
https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-T5-Portable-SSD-MU-PA1T0B/dp/B073H4GPLQ?th=1
Oct 5, 2018 07:29:02 #
rgrenaderphoto wrote:
Excuse me? If you can afford it, why not use an external SSD? You have zero moving parts and an read/write cycle in the 6 figures. What is the issue?
"If so would some of you recommend a top shelf external hard drove and space size?
Thanks"
I think he was looking for a specific answer regarding his problem. A name or names of companies. Not some useless ramble.
Oct 5, 2018 07:37:50 #
jbk224
Loc: Long Island, NY
traderjohn wrote:
"........ Not some useless ramble.
Not fair! He is not responding to the question; but to a reply concerning an external HDD. Other than cost consideration, there is absolutley every reason to go with a portable SSD. Frankly there is only one type of reply to the request for 'top shelf external hard drives'-- SSD's. Mfg, specs, and sizes vary.
Oct 5, 2018 07:45:13 #
jbk224 wrote:
Not fair! He is not responding to the question; but to a reply concerning an external HDD. Other than cost consideration, there is absolutley every reason to go with a portable SSD. Frankly there is only one type of reply to the request for 'top shelf external hard drives'-- SSD's. Mfg, specs, and sizes vary.
"If so would some of you recommend a top shelf external hard drove and space size?
Thanks"
He was looking for an answer. The other responder, like you, decided to ramble on.....without address his question. What are you recommending?? What manufacturer?
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