outdoorcat

Now that is a deal that's too good to be true.

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

Hoowan dis?

Jrhoffman75 Loc: Conway, New Hampshire

Was it a powered hub?

Robertl594 Loc: Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and Nantucket

Wow! Just ordered one. Hope it’s good.

tcthome Loc: NJ

I have a 1 Tb, WD MY PASSPORT external drive for about 5-6 years now with no problems. Down to 75gb open space left. Probably pick up a couple of 2-5 tb units soon.

Jimmy T Loc: Virginia

I am having a good experience with my Seagate Backup Plus Hub 8TB Desktop Hard Drive with Rescue Data Recovery Services.
https://www.costco.com/seagate-backup-plus-hub-8tb-desktop-hard-drive-with-rescue-data-recovery-services.product.100458004.html
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foathog Loc: Greensboro, NC

What's that saying...."If it looks too good to be true........."

rlv567 Loc: Baguio City, Philippines

I've seen the 2TB thumb drives on Lazada for some time - along with the millions of others! I've also seen the unfortunate buyers taken in by their supposed potential, and reporting just what you have seen. It's just more Chinese JUNK/SCAMS, of which there are MANY on the Internet, without resellers so much as batting an eye! I have fallen for just one thing in six years here - high quality, not cheap UV lights, which were not even blue, much less ultra violet, and which my testing proved to be absolute fakes!!! It's sad but there are many "name-brand, quality products" which aren't!!! - sometimes ridiculously cheap, but often not that much lower than the genuine article. There almost always are telltale signs that they are fake, though, if one pays attention, and exercises a little judgement.

Loren - in Beautiful Baguio City

awesome14 Loc: UK

Undoubtedly not a SSD, but a mechanical drive that is, at best, 1/10 the speed of the slowest SSD!

jbk224 Loc: Long Island, NY

Samsung's T5 and T7 SSD drives are dependable. So are SanDisk's Extreme drives. I have both.
The fact that you have a new Mac Studio, gives you the ability to take advantage of USB C connections at 5,10,20 gps; and Thunderbolt 4 at 40gbs. Since you are not doing pro video rendering, and are looking for a backup solution; I would opt for either Samsung's T7 or SanDisks Extreme Standard-- both at 10gps. The cost steps up significantly to go to 40gps. Personally, while much faster-- not worth it for my needs. SanDisk now has a 4GB drive that is peaking my interest.
Check both out.
https://www.westerndigital.com/products/portable-drives/sandisk-extreme-usb-3-2-ssd?ef_id=ae424cc1c0de1c721bee2eaa1bd80325:G:s&s_kwcid=AL!15012!10!72842810246379!4576442286060364&utm_medium=pdsh2&utm_source=bing&utm_campaign=SanDisk-NA-US-PLA&utm_content=s&utm_term=SDSSDE61-4T00-G25#SDSSDE61-4T00-G25

https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/memory-storage/portable-solid-state-drives/

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Wow! It used to be $32!

I wouldn't trust 16TB in that little package. There's a guy on YouTube who buys things like that, and they're never quite as advertised.

They're also selling a 256GB M.2 for $34. I wonder if that 16TB is returnable - or if it's a typo.

Grey Ghost

Are you that it was SSD (solid state drive) and not HDD (hard disk drive). Big difference in performance and price!!

cjc2 Loc: Hellertown PA

If you have spent the $$$ for the Mac Studio, now is no the time to cheap out. Prices vary with quality and speed. Be sure to buy a TB4 system, or at least a TB3. I STRONGLY suggest you look at OWC and perhaps give them a call for advice. I just purchased two different SSD devices from them for my iMac Pro and the price was well worth the increase in speed. I plan to upgrade to a Studio over the summer, Best of luck.

Bridges Loc: Memphis, Charleston SC, now Nazareth PA

I was curious about those 2TB sticks a couple of years ago and decided to invest the 25.00 to see what it really was. I couldn't and didn't believe you could buy a 2TB stick for 25.00. I was right! It filled up around 256GB. So the price was on par with what you could go to a SAM's Club or BJs or Costco and buy a 256GB stick for. No loss, but no bargain either.

awesome14 Loc: UK

Samsung are probably the best SSDs. You would want a 2TB NVMe m.2 m-key 2280 drive and one of the hundreds of external enclosures that hold that type of drive. I only recommend this because then the drive isn't married to the enclosure, so it has it's own controller, and it can be swapped out into newer, faster enclosures as they become available.

NVMe m.2 has been a standard for over 10 years, and was designed for a 20-year lifespan. USB standards are changing all the time, every few years. So, the drive will be totl for a long time, even if USB3.1 is not. The enclosures are inexpensive, but you want one that allows drive trimming. If the operating system cannot periodically trim the drive, it gets slower and slower until it's like a flash drive, because that's essentially what is without tricks like trimming.

Costco and Sams are the worst places to purchase anything that has to do with data-processing, i.e. personal computers. The best place is probably Amazon.com, because you have access to everything you could ever possibly need, and a very low price!

For instance, you will never find a 2TB Samsung 980 Pro NVMe m.2 drive at a retail outlet, unless it's by random chance that someone returned a special-order item. And no sane individual would shop at a brick-and-mortar retail shop for something like that. So, you have to go online to find the good stuff!

I calculated how long a Sansung 2TB like I've described would last under extensive use, and it's over 100 years. So, you don't need to worry about the flash-memory chips wearing out. But you should get the 970 or 980 'Pro', not 'EVO'! You'll be happy when your drive doesn't fail!

But always remember, if it isn't stored on at least 2 different drives, it isn't backed up! Any drive can fail at any moment! Have at least 2 copies of everything! Don't think of an archive like a backup.