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).
My experience has been to trust SSD devices more than HDD drive devices. It stands to reason that something mechanical and moving in principle is going to fail at some point where solid state devices have potentially an indefinite life - though there may be reasons that can’t be. SSD is likely to be more robust against accidental dropping too where an HDD not so likely. SSD drives are likely quicker too though can be a function of USB connection generation (2.0 or 3.0). I would lean to SSD Peter if I was buying now but I have quite a number of HDD external drives and they have been reliable for many years for me. Always a good policy to have backup of all data too - including your externally attached drives - to Time Machine so you can sleep at night about the potential loss of data not being disastrous. The price of HDD external drives is so very cheap now too where SSD a bit dearer for the same capacity. Always go a good named brand. Pete. > On 7 Aug 2020, at 1:11 pm, Julie Bedford <jew...@iinet.net.au> 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 > > Cheers > Jewels > > >> On 7 Aug 2020, at 11:43 am, Peter Curtis <pe...@augold.com.au> wrote: >> >> 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 - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
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