Re: portable ssd

2022-09-04 Thread Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss
On Sun, 2022-09-04 at 01:17 -0700, Phil Waclawski via PLUG-discuss wrote: > The one advantage of an SSD vs a spinning USB Hard drive is that you can > bump an SSD drive without worrying about the drive crashing, regardless of > speed. > Drawback is you usually want to keep it at most about 70% full

Re: video editors

2022-09-04 Thread Mark Phillips via PLUG-discuss
Try flowblade. A small learning curve, but it works. Mark On Sat, Sep 3, 2022, 11:15 PM Joe Neglia via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > I'll vouch for that. Years ago KDEnlive was crashing on me every few > minutes. Tried it again a few months ago and it was solid. > >

Re: portable ssd

2022-09-04 Thread T Zack Crawford via PLUG-discuss
I think USB 3 --> SATA is much slower than connecting directly to the motherboard, but an SSD connected this way is still faster than a 7200rpm HDD. I would buy any internal (e.g. TeamGroup) 2.5" SSD and connect it sata to USB and then you basically have a regular flash drive but much bigger. Fo

Re: portable ssd

2022-09-04 Thread Michael via PLUG-discuss
I think another advantage is that there are no mechanical parts to wear out. On Sun, Sep 4, 2022 at 4:18 AM Phil Waclawski via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > The one advantage of an SSD vs a spinning USB Hard drive is that you can > bump an SSD drive without worrying abo

Re: portable ssd

2022-09-04 Thread Phil Waclawski via PLUG-discuss
The one advantage of an SSD vs a spinning USB Hard drive is that you can bump an SSD drive without worrying about the drive crashing, regardless of speed. Drawback is you usually want to keep it at most about 70% full so it can do proper wear levelling Phil W On Sat, Sep 3, 2022 at 11:43 PM Michae