Solid State Drives (Page 4): For Cost effectiveness, the old spinning disk is tops. A 12TB external HDD can be bought now for approx the same price as a 2 TB esternal SSD, so for...

puku8849

jackm1943 wrote:

Haha, not a problem. I didn't know what HDD meant either. Had to Google it just to learn it meant the old style spinning disc.

For Cost effectiveness, the old spinning disk is tops. A 12TB external HDD can be bought now for approx the same price as a 2 TB esternal SSD, so for archiving, HDD is still OK. I am sure in time, SSD will catch up HDD in price. Internal SSD is tops for improving the speed of performance of your computer with the right OS and Interface.

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

burkphoto wrote:

On the Mac, you would want Thunderbolt 3 (40Gbps). It uses the USB-C connectors found on recent Macs.

And USB 4 will match Thunderbolt 3 soon enough. Release is imminent.

mas24 Loc: Southern CA

puku8849 wrote:

For Cost effectiveness, the old spinning disk is tops. A 12TB external HDD can be bought now for approx the same price as a 2 TB esternal SSD, so for archiving, HDD is still OK. I am sure in time, SSD will catch up HDD in price. Internal SSD is tops for improving the speed of performance of your computer with the right OS and Interface.

12 TB is a lot of storage.. I'm guessing how long it would take for me to fill up that external HDD. Maybe never?

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

jackm1943 wrote:

OK, I went to Google and found that "HDD" means the old style spinning hard drive. I'd just never heard them called this before.

Hard
Disk
Drive

HDD is an acronym.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Gene51 wrote:

And USB 4 will match Thunderbolt 3 soon enough. Release is imminent.

For practical purposes, they’re the same.

jhgribble Loc: Michigan

One more thing to consider. When a SSD drive fails, most likely all data will be lost. With standard hard drives there is always a chance to send it off to recover your data.

So you can go with SSD drives for internal and external, but have a back up! 😁😁

mas24 Loc: Southern CA

jhgribble wrote:

One more thing to consider. When a SSD drive fails, most likely all data will be lost. With standard hard drives there is always a chance to send it off to recover your data.

So you can go with SSD drives for internal and external, but have a back up! 😁😁

There have been a couple of hoggers in the past, claiming their HDD crashed on them and they lost photos. And some as you say, have sent the crashed HDD to a recovery place, to save most of their data. It has been said that the average lifespan of an HDD is about 5 years under everyday usage. I don't know the lifespan of a SSD, as compared to the HDD? Perhaps computer geeks know the answer. Electronic Sales Stores are promoting desktop computers and laptops with SSDs, and it appears to be working. They are selling well right now. You should always have an external backup storage. HDD or SSD.

Tony Groenink

I have heard that SSD drives need to be powered up occasionally (not sure of frequency) as that can loose their memory capability if not powered up. Thus the standard mechanical HDD are best for external back up drives as you can powert them up after any lenght of time and the info will still be there.

Canisdirus

The annual failure rate for SSD's is 1.5%
The annual failure rate for HDD's is 5%.

You can figure at least 10 years of safe storage with either drive tech.

jhgribble Loc: Michigan

I work in the IT world on the infrastructure side of things, 10 years is under perfect conditions, in a data center with perfect heating and cooling and clean consistent power. There are also different grades of drives. Average Joe at home does not get the industrial drive. Fans fail on PC's and laptops, heat is a killer of either hdd or SSD. For all these reasons I would say 3 to 5 years to be safe and always have copy. You can also look at NAS storage for a backup that has multiple drives in it with RAID technology that way if a single drive fails it can be replaced and the system will rebuild you data with out loss of data. If your pictures are as special to you as mine are to me, then do what I do. I have two copies, one on external nas with 4 drives init running RAID 5 and then a copy in the cloud. Data loss can be heart wrenching!

DougS Loc: Central Arkansas

The recommended (currently) storage for photos and important documents is still HDD. The reasoning is that once a drive fails, the HDD can usually be recovered, while the SSD is NOT recoverable, period! If you go with SSD, be sure to have backup(s)!
Use the SSD drive for apps, where speed is most used. I just built a desktop (1 month!), and these were the recommendations. For graphics work, use 32GB RAM.

cjc2 Loc: Hellertown PA

My MBP has a 512GB internal SSD and I've added a Samsung T5 External SSD for use when tethering. As my MPB uses TB3 ports only, the external SSD runs pretty quickly. After the session, images are incorporated into my iMac Pro for PP. Best of luck.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

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