Hello

What budget friendly solution would you recommend for someone that wants to store at most 1-2TB of data on a portable device ?

I’m curently using 256Gb USB keys, but it’s getting annoying to swap between them when I need to update the storage or retrieve something.

I went with USB because it was cheaper and less prone to failure by being handled, but I don’t know if it’s the cheapest and most reliable way to store data I want to access semi-regularly.

What would be your advice ?

Thank you

  • Malossi167@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Flash drives kinda suck. Unreliable, bad performance, easy to lose or break. Fine for moving a bit of data between devices but definitely not something I would entrust my data to longterm.

    (external) SSDs in the 1TB range are so cheap that it hardly makes sense to recommend anything else. Especially for portable storage.