Re: SSD external harddrives

2020-08-06 Thread Julie Bedford
Thanks Pete, sorry I misread Peter’s email. They were HDDs. I may myself look at the SSD external drive, but always thought they were hugely more expensive. Always have an SDD on my Mac though. Thanks Jewels > On 7 Aug 2020, at 1:28 pm, Peter wrote: > > Hi Julie that is lucky you were

Re: SSD external harddrives

2020-08-06 Thread Peter
Hi Julie that is lucky you were able to transfer data before anything got lost. Peter’s original question however relates to whether external SSD drives are more reliable and it wasn’t clear from your email if your drives were HDD (mechanical spinning disc drives) or SSD (solid state drives).

Re: SSD external harddrives

2020-08-06 Thread Peter Curtis
Hi Jewels Were they SSD or normal drives? Peter > On 7 Aug 2020, at 1:11 pm, Julie Bedford wrote: > > Hi Peter > > I have just had 2 external hard drives fail me - about 2 years old. Luckily > I managed to transfer the files to another > external one. Both were Toshiba. > > Hope that helps

Re: SSD external harddrives

2020-08-06 Thread Julie Bedford
Hi Peter I have just had 2 external hard drives fail me - about 2 years old. Luckily I managed to transfer the files to another external one. Both were Toshiba. Hope that helps Cheers Jewels > On 7 Aug 2020, at 11:43 am, Peter Curtis wrote: > > Hi everyone > Are the external ssd hard

SSD external harddrives

2020-08-06 Thread Peter Curtis
Hi everyone Are the external ssd hard drives more reliable than the normal external hard drives? Kind regards Peter -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - Guidelines -