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Post by geoffr on Jan 10, 2023 21:03:06 GMT
I was in Currys this morning and stumbled across something that looked to be rather useful. A Samsung PSSD T7 external drive. I got the 1TB version. What makes it so useful is that it behaves as if it were an internal SSD meaning I can treat it as such and open images to edit as quickly as on the computer’s on SSD. Most external drives to date have been too slow. It is the size of a credit card and about 6mm thick, comes with USB C to USB C and USB A to USB C cables.
More expensive than a HDD but cheaper by far than an buying a new MacBook with a 1TB drive.
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Post by squeamishossifrage on Jan 11, 2023 8:04:33 GMT
SSD is definitely the way to go - they are now faster and more reliable than hard drives. In fact, a lot of SSDs are faster than USB C, which becomes the limiting factor. My laptop is SSD for C: and D: drives (500gb and 1TB respectively), but my photo drives are all 2 terabyte 'spinners', except for a 1 terabyte RAID array, the ultimate backup!
What I would really like is a USB C RAID 10 (or, more correctly RAID 1+0) array built from 4 x 1 TB SSDs. Fast and redundant, but very expensive!
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Post by zx9 on Jan 11, 2023 8:48:32 GMT
I have had a 1TB external SSD for a while, it is used with Davinci Resolve to store video whilst editing, works well with my 2015 MBP. I suppose I could use it as scratch disk for Photo Shop but I have never felt the need as I have 500gb SSD in the MBP.
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Post by geoffr on Jan 11, 2023 13:40:35 GMT
I have had a 1TB external SSD for a while, it is used with Davinci Resolve to store video whilst editing, works well with my 2015 MBP. I suppose I could use it as scratch disk for Photo Shop but I have never felt the need as I have 500gb SSD in the MBP. My 2018 MacBook Pro has a 500 GB SSD too but I would be very happy to have a 2TB SSD internally. The Samsung drive is, as far as I can determine, as fast as having an internal drive which is a big advantage over a mechanical drive. |
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