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TreasonousBastard

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1. Probably not. SSD's haven't proven to be more reliable than anythinge else. They are...

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Mon Oct 30, 2017, 05:42 PM

Oct 2017

faster but much more expensive, as you found out with your 500 gig drive.

You can get a handful of terabytes for what you spend on one SSD. I have an old Seagate 350MB external drive that holds most of my files, and that's backed up to another Seagate 1 TB and a 2TB WD drive. Almost 3 1/2 TB for $150 bucks or so.

And then there's that cloud. Flickr, Dropbox, Onedrive, Google drive, Evernote and a bunch of places to store stuff.

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Looking to add a backup desktop hard drive [View all] SHRED Oct 2017 OP

Probably not. SSD's haven't proven to be more reliable than anythinge else. They are... TreasonousBastard Oct 2017 #1

Yeah they are fast! SHRED Oct 2017 #2

For backup, I would stay with external drives that you can disconnect... TreasonousBastard Oct 2017 #3

Good idea SHRED Oct 2017 #4

Unless you store a lot of photos or videos Egnever Nov 2017 #6

Consider two backups, one of which is kept off-site. BadgerKid Oct 2017 #5