Hi Thanks for all the info, much appreciated. I’ll look up Officeworks Stephen. Kind regards Peter
> On 7 Aug 2020, at 5:42 pm, Stephen Chape <chap...@bigpond.com> wrote: > > Hi Peter. > I bought a Samsung SSD from Officeworks for quite a reasonable price about 6 > months ago. > I use it for my monthly “safe” backup. > What used to take a long time with a Hard Drive (I use Superduper), now takes > 7 minutes and then back in my safe. > Might be worth checking Officworks website. > > I think I paid $134.00 for a 500GB. > >> On 7 Aug 2020, at 4:09 pm, Adam Lippiatt <adam.lippi...@me.com> wrote: >> >> I would be interested too. >> >> I use HDD for backup purposes ($ spent on reliability not speed) but was >> considering for a while some of these new SSDs to put my primary data on >> instead of relying on the spinning drive portion of the fusion drive in my >> late 2013 iMac, but judged it not worth it as it only has thunderbolt 1 >> ports which don’t give you access to the little non powered thunderbolt 3 >> cases that are quite popular and speedy now. >> >> I hear that quality SSDs last long enough these days not to matter. (SSDs >> do lose storage capacity over time while spinning drives do not. However the >> degradation is slow and doesn’t seem to matter for general use so far as I >> know.) >> >> As you have everything backed up, a failed SSD shouldn’t be much of a >> bother. >> >>> On 7 Aug 2020, at 3:53 pm, Julie Bedford <jew...@iinet.net.au> wrote: >>> >>> 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 >>>>>> -- 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> >>>> >>>> -- 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> >> -- 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> > > > Regards, > Stephen Chape > > > > > > > -- 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>
