I am looking for advice to buy an external SSD to backup my date.
I wanted a 2TB SSD reliable, compact and durable.
My data is around 300GB static (rarely updated) plus 150-200 GB that gets frequent additions and updates (just for context).
My top choice is for now the Crucial X10 Pro and some of the alternatives are the Samsung T9 and T7 Shield.
(I don’t know if is something to consider but last month I finally switch to Linux completely for that reason I will use the SSD with Ext4 format)
Not sure about a full product, but after googling something similar for myself(want a remote storage to hold sensitive, recovery etc stuff) I realized that I can buy a good ssd and get an external casing for it.
You know that linux will play with ntfs. just pointing this out if any of the data transfers happen to involve windows machines!
Also Have you considered a 512gb flash drive? There $50.00 usd and under for name brands!
How reliable? I’m not trying to pick a fight, but single point of failure with high reliability is hard. Better to get medium reliability with multiple copies of the data and backups.
There is no such thing like a really reliable external SSD out-of-the-box.
The best solution IF SATA speeds are fast enough:
Get an enterprise SATA SSD like a Kingston DC600M with built-in Powerloss Protection (PLP).
Get a neutral USB-to-2.5" SATA SSD enclosure, I’d recommend a product with USB 10 Gbit/s support since these are the latest gen of these chipsets that have become quite reliable over the years.
BUT be always aware that any piece of hardware can always suddenly die, so always use multiple different devices for really crucial data.
I am also using proton drive to backup my most important files and a full backup in a Samsung 970 EVO plus inside an USB enclosure.
The Ext4 part is because that by default I can encrypt it easer and since I will be using it in Linux only some tricks like the Samsung T7 Touch fingerprint lock are useless to me.
Until recently I was using 3 USB flash drives and one microSD of 128GB each but tow of the USB flash drives are to slow (they take 4h to make the backup). The other USB flash drive and the microSD will get used and in the future I will look into get some extra USB flash drives but not for now.
Its okay, by reliable I mean that it dos not have any catastrophic flaw. For example a couple of years ago I bought to my sister a SanDisk 1TB Extreme SSD and recently I read that this SSD my have a design flaw.
As for keeping multiple copies I already have one in local and another in the cloud, I just wanted an extra as insurance to keep in my backpack and not think to much about it.
Thank you for the advice, I will be using a multiple copies system, its just that right now I wanted an extra to throw in my backpack and not worry about it.
In the future when I have time (and money) I will look in to some more fancy solutions.
Thought about this. My idea was the WB Passport pro (or hows it’s called). But then I started googling how the encrypt goes, and it’s basically either OS account bound, or “Install our small app” (and, most likely, that app will not be properly maintained).
So I started looking for a higher tier solution, and ended up with VeraCrypt. You have your main regular nobody cares stuff on the external driver as is. And you have a separate README.MD(for example), which is a VeraCrypt encrypted drive.
I find this solution to be the best.
I have used many Samsung T* for years and never had one fail
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