jdm wrote:
Hi, Awesome Hogs!
Yup, it is tax free weekend in Massachusetts; I’m planning to buy 2 external hard drives to back up my LR/PP files, just under 10k images. I would love to get your recommendations on which ones you think are the best and why. (I did do a search and the posts were rather dated.)
Thank you in advance for your advice.
Regards,
JDM
The "best" external MECHANICAL drive can be either a Toshiba or HGST Ultrastar - purchased as a bare drive. These are very robust drives rated for data center or enterprise use - and come with 5 yr warranties. You purchase a case that offers the fastest connection supported by your computer (Thunderbolt2, USB 3.0/3.1/C) and take the 90 secs it takes to install the drive in the case you will end up with something substantially better than the cheap pre-packaged, so called portable or external, consumer grade drives. If you open one of them you will find the mfgr's cheapest slowest drive inside. These represent a total waste of money.
If you are able to justify a much higher cost - an SSD drive is also a very good option, but don't think that because it is an SSD it will be much faster than the mechanical drive - it won't be because the speed is limited by the interface bottleneck.