Portable SSD for save/back-up and bootable..

[Friesland]

[Dragunov]

Everyone should have a backup drive! Good on Ya'.

[Mute]

I have a Samsung T5 2 TB SSD that I use for file storage and it has been very reliable. It's small, so easy to carry, though also easy to lose if you're not careful.

[xcoreflyup]

Samsung SSD

[d33pt]

I have a samsung T5 also, and it's been great. Super fast and really small.

[sonofeugene]

I presume your talking about an external drive?

Yes! Backups are important. I have two systems, each with mirrored drives. One is internal with two 2 terabyte drives in bays 3 and 4. That gets backed up nightly and since I use Carbon Copy Cloner, they are exact clones so I can simply drop one in place of my main drive, should it fail, and be up and running again in minutes. The drives are the same size as the main drive.

My other backup is another mirrored drive set up in an external case that I can store in the garage.

I highly recommend CCC!

[Robotron2k84]

I just get the bare drives and use a USB3 dock or header. No point in an external enclosure anymore with solid state.

[C.G.]

Good deal on a 2TB Samsung external SSD:

https://www.amazon.com/SAMSUNG-Portable-SSD-2TB-MU-PC2T0T/dp/B0874XWW23/ref=pd_ybh_a_4?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=KYG25BFXSHYNNFYAMH24

[Friesland]

SanDisk SSD V2

Way beyond me but sounds like a wise move. Is splitting / mirroring a sure thing, it's still the one physical drive? Will look into "I use Carbon Copy Cloner" Thanks

I presume your talking about an external drive?

Yes! Backups are important. I have two systems, each with mirrored drives. One is internal with two 2 terabyte drives in bays 3 and 4. That gets backed up nightly and since I use Carbon Copy Cloner, they are exact clones so I can simply drop one in place of my main drive, should it fail, and be up and running again in minutes. The drives are the same size as the main drive.

My other backup is another mirrored drive set up in an external case that I can store in the garage.

I highly recommend CCC!

[sonofeugene]

Yes. Mirroring is a sure thing. Perhaps not as good as an array of five disks but it's certainly better than only one disk. And, yes, it's actually two separate drives, written to simultaneously.

Look at the info here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID

To make it work really well, you want the mirrored drives capable of being installed in place of your main computer drive should it go bad. And with CCC, since it makes an exact duplicate of your main hard drive, you simply remove your defective main drive, install one of the mirrored drives, and you're up and running again. At worst you might need a new password for some MS apps. I had to do that when I tried MS Word from the new drive. I simply called MS tech, told them what I did, and they gave me a new password to get it up and running. Everything else worked just as it did before. Same files in all the same locations. CCC has been around for a long, long time and is updated from time to time, it's not expensive, and it just plain works.