No they were normal drives - sorry overlooked the SSD in your email.
Would be interested to learn if you buy, how much etc.

Jewels


> On 7 Aug 2020, at 1:25 pm, Peter Curtis <pe...@augold.com.au> wrote:
> 
> Hi Jewels
> Were they SSD or normal drives?
> Peter
> 
>> 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
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