If you can find a portable enclosure that will truly support those kind of read/write speeds at a sustained level, yes, but honestly IMO that’s too much for only 500gb. I’d personally think the speed on the T5 (or EVO with a good enclosure) is more than sufficient. If you’re not worried about cost, then that’s a viable option, but for almost that same cost you can get a 1tb Samsung T5 that will be wicked fast already. But again this is just my opinion.
- External PCIe enclosures with Thunderbolt interface (which it would pretty much need to be to beat a T5 with any significant margin) are not cheap and certainly not $30.
- Nope. That one won't work at all for the 970 EVO you found, in fact.
I am doing this very same research right now. Two things stand out so far:
@mr.anthonyramos one thing to keep in mind is that Seagate bought Lacie in 2014. Now read this:
. This whole "which brand is best" is a minefield. Everyone has their own experience and I find it impossible to find any objective reliability data relevant to the actual drives available to buy when I want one. It is a constantly changing scene, as names take over other names and sizes keep going up. I tend to agree with someone who said earlier that they are all pretty similar these days, and maybe the best parameter to buy on is warranty.
Yep I agree with that re warranty. I guess for me that Backblaze article was the closest dataset to what my own observation and intuition had been saying to me. Having worked in customer facing computer service for over a decade I have a somewhat unique perspective. Seagate, to me, was once the leader and has made some pretty egregious mistakes. The MacBook (2006) HDD failure epidemic on the ubiquitous 60gb drives was entirely due to a Seagate manufacturing flaw. Anyways I do agree drives often comes down to brand loyalty and price at time of purchase and that dataset was really interesting and possibly correlative.Bad luck
- It was in response to the OP who wanted a drive "for back-up and storing all my photos/videos and other files".
- That was probably me. Design, connector/interface (USB-C, USB-B micro, Thunderbolt, eSATA, etc.), and warranty (though even warranty is typically nearly the same between manufacturers) are the deciding factors rather than quality and reliability.
- I've used a multitude of different brands over the years, and I've never had any failures. As a result, I don't discriminate very much between them in my purchase decisions. Design and connection type has become the most important factors for me.
- You can use drives with USB-C just fine. Just connect with a USB-C to USB-A cable; most drives come with one included in addition to USB-C to USB-C. Samsung T5 for instance has both.
