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>
