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Worth replacing ext. HDD with SSD?

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July 27, 2014 4:43:42 AM

I use external HDDs to back-up several computers and mostly to keep a movie archive that I plug in any media box or smart TV and watch almost all day. Thing is, in the past few years pretty much every HDD i've bought has failed. For a reason or not. Sometimes they just stop working but sometimes it's the kids the throw it down. Either way I supposedly bought cheap storage which ends up expensive. Is it worth investing in SSD or they tend to fail in similar situations?

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a c 120 G Storage
July 27, 2014 4:49:24 AM

Nothing will keep going if you throw it onto the floor.

But SSDs are more shock proof. And expensive too - keep them away from the kids.
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a b G Storage
July 27, 2014 5:25:23 AM

SSD's are undoubtedly better suited as portable drives since they have no moving parts and therefore can be "thrown around" a lot more without breaking. The deciding factor is the size you are looking for since large SSD's are expensive.

You can get a 240GB Crucial V300 for around £70. Grab a USB3 enclosure for about £10-15 and there you go.

Unfortunately after the 250GB mark they start to get pricey. 512GB drives start around £150 and 1TB around £300. Compared to a standard 1TB external HDD which sets you back maybe £50... it gets hard to justify.
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July 27, 2014 6:22:21 AM

There is a crucial MX100 512GB for €199.19. Considering that in the past 2 years I've had 2x512GB and 1x1TB drives broken, then if this thing can last around 3-4 years with normal use then I will be happy
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a c 120 G Storage
July 27, 2014 5:57:16 PM

Then go for it. Just keep it away from the kids
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July 27, 2014 8:18:49 PM

a ssd will be significantly faster performance. A good way to see this in use is if you have a macbook air w/ 4gb i-5 / ssd compared to macbook pro with i-5 / i-7 / 8gb+ / 500gb-1tb drive. Then select the folder with all the applications inside of it, select everything at once and double click. It will open up every single program on that computer at the exact same time. I use mac because I have never seen a way to open every single program on windows all up at once with one click. the macbook pro with higher specs will actually open the first one kind a quick, but then the next one is slower and next one even slower until it basically freezes for a minute. Then if you do the same thing on the cheaper lower spec macbook air it will instantly open the first 2-3 programs and it will have 5+ open by the time the other one had 2 opened up. The air will actually open every single program while the pro is stuck after about 6-7 of them. I have gone a step further and then select every single office document / image while the programs were all still open. Eventually it slowed, but there was so much stuff open at that point is was just totally ridiculous. even with several images / pages, keynote and numbers documents opened it was still quicker than the pro by the time it hit 8+ programs.
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July 28, 2014 9:57:50 AM

Well, thats good to know but this topic is about external disks.
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