Portable hard drive (Page 3): For my MBP, and now my Air M2, I'm still using a Samsung T5 (or a T7 upon occasion). Normally, I'm using this for tethered capture. Absolutely NO issues.

cjc2 Loc: Hellertown PA

For my MBP, and now my Air M2, I'm still using a Samsung T5 (or a T7 upon occasion). Normally, I'm using this for tethered capture. Absolutely NO issues. My Mac Studio Ultra uses a OWC SSD drive to store my Lightroom catalog (TB4) and another, larger OWC SSD system (TB3) to store the working copies of my current images. What you use/buy depends on what job(s) it will be asked to perform and how much you want to spend. Everything else spins. Best of luck.

mizzee Loc: Boston,Ma

I have a Samsung 2T for an external for my 2023 MacBook Pro. I’m quite happy with it.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

For an external that is going to be moved around, I would prefer an SSD. If you drop an SSD, no big deal. If you drop an HDD, you start shopping for another one.

greenwork Loc: Southwest Florida

Lots of good information here. I've used both SSD and spinners and am in the process of switching to SSD's except for redundant storage. When traveling I use 2 SSDs attached to my MacBook M2. One drive contains a "Traveling" LR catalog and the other is for automatic copies of the files when I import from a memory card into LR. The benefit is I have 3 copies of my images - one on each drive and one on the card and I keep them in different bags. Good Luck!

texasdigital Loc: Conroe, Texas

Let me add to this request. Some years ago, I saw advertised an external drive designed for travel photographers when a laptop was not readily available. If I recall correctly, you removed your memory card and inserted it into the external drive, and you were able to download your data directly into this drive without having to use a computer. If you chose, you could free up storage on the memory card. This data could then be transferred to a computer/laptop for processing and backup to other storage devices.

Do you have any information about this device?

OldCADuser Loc: Irvine, CA

texasdigital wrote:

Let me add to this request. Some years ago, I saw... (show quote)

Yes, I recall something like that as well. That being said, I suspect that since most people now have laptops and/or tablets, that the market for something like that may be getting smaller. However, I did a Google search and found this on the B&H site:

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1790744-REG/clouzen_cl_tn0015_2tb_tainer_portable_all_in_one_backup.html/overview?

texasdigital Loc: Conroe, Texas

OldCADuser wrote:

Yes, I recall something like that as well. That being said, I suspect that since most people now have laptops and/or tablets, that the market for something like that may be getting smaller. However, I did a Google search and found this on the B&H site:

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1790744-REG/clouzen_cl_tn0015_2tb_tainer_portable_all_in_one_backup.html/overview?

Thank you. I did contact B&H chat, and honestly, they were clueless. I'm surprised because I normally get good results from their chat line. However, I did make contact with Western Digital, and I was referred to this device. It sounds even better than the one I remember.

https://www.westerndigital.com/en-ap/products/portable-drives/wd-my-passport-wireless-pro-hdd

texasdigital Loc: Conroe, Texas

texasdigital wrote:

Thank you. I did contact B&H chat, and honestly, they were clueless. I'm surprised because I normally get good results from their chat line. However, I did make contact with Western Digital, and I was referred to this device. It sounds even better than the one I remember.

https://www.westerndigital.com/en-ap/products/portable-drives/wd-my-passport-wireless-pro-hdd

Oops! It is no longer available on B&H

OldCADuser Loc: Irvine, CA

Like I said, I suspect that the market for something like this is dwindling. I know I would never have a need for something like this. If I was ever in a situation where I needed to have additional storage and I couldn't bring my MacBook, I'd just opt for having a few extra SD cards with me.

texasdigital Loc: Conroe, Texas

OldCADuser wrote:

Like I said, I suspect that the market for something like this is dwindling. I know I would never have a need for something like this. If I was ever in a situation where I needed to have additional storage and I couldn't bring my MacBook, I'd just opt for having a few extra SD cards with me.

And you are absolutely correct. Even at the high cost of XQD cards, I can purchase 3 120 GB cards for the price of the drive. However, I am limited to the number of cards I can afford to buy. Sigh! Why can't I have it all? LOL

Danno1602 Loc: Kentucky

TriX wrote:

Good dvice Bill, and I completely agree on the Samsung T7. Much faster than a spinning disk, more reliable (essentially shock proof) and small/light.

T7 is what I use on my MacBook and iMac both.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

OldCADuser wrote:

Yes, I recall something like that as well. That being said, I suspect that since most people now have laptops and/or tablets, that the market for something like that may be getting smaller. However, I did a Google search and found this on the B&H site:

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1790744-REG/clouzen_cl_tn0015_2tb_tainer_portable_all_in_one_backup.html/overview?

Wow! Kinda pricey.