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Samsung Announces Next-Generation 'Portable SSD T3' With USB-C Port
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That won't help here, since it still only gives you one USB-C port.That's why they make these.
http://www.amazon.com/IVSO-2-Ports-Adapter-Charging-MacBook/dp/B00YL3FEQW
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This looks great. Samsung makes some of the best SSDs on the market. The two-toned design kinda reminds me of the original iPhone, haha. I'd love to have a tiny, super-fast drive to store my Lightroom catalog. I've got a pretty good setup now—a relatively small external drive that is RAID 0 and 4TB, but even so it's less than half the speed of this thing and much more volatile. I make frequent backups to a desktop 4TB drive. However, I don't even need 4TB and 2TB would be fine—especially since I recently purged some of the crap in my LR catalog.
Dang... I've got 7 hard drives in service today... and most of them are over 2 years old.
Plus 6 more older hard drives on the shelf that are not in service but still work.
What are you doing to your hard drives?
Depends on how you use them. They are in a laptop, the laptop is portable, moving it around means moving the HDD around with its mechanical parts. It will also take slight bumps and hits here and there. Plus I use the hard-drive a good 3-4 hours a day.
Hard-drives used for storage/backup last longer though
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The same models have been half price because they are older models from last year, or you mean same capacity SSDs are half price now?
I've got a 1TB Black for my general data... and another 1TB Black for my video editing drive. They are inside my computer and get used a lot.
Vault 2TB A and Vault 4TB A are Greens that are also inside my computer. But they only get woken up when I save large archives. Green drives like to sleep a lot.
Vault 2TB B and Vault 4TB B are Green drives that I put into one of those external docks. They are the mirrors to their Vault A mates.
And I have a 750GB Seagate USB 3.0 portable drive. That one gets tossed around in my bag.
The only time I ever lost a drive was with a 1TB Black. Luckily it still worked (barely) and I could get my files off. It was replaced under warranty... but I had already replaced it from retail. So now I have an extra 1TB Black. And then I've got a pile of old 500GB drives that still worked last time I checked.
I guess I've had good luck!
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I just hope they abandon their horrible proprietary software, or at least make it optional (right now you have to install it at least once to activate the drive).
Fortunately, I had read a lot of comments on Amazon about the setup process, the proprietary software, the .kext file, etc., and so was prepared when it came time to install my T1. I used an older Mac, installed the software and the .kext file as instructed, did NOT set a password, and after all was done, then went into Disk Utility and erased the drive and reformatted it to extended journaling. After that, I unplugged it from the older computer and plugged it into the machine I'm intending to use it with and things were just great -- no extra files or .kext cluttering up the computer, the drive works as desired, and I"m good to go. Of course not everyone has an extra machine lying around that they can do this -- as it happened the older machine is being replaced by the new one, which is why I wanted the new external SSD in the first place. I just hadn't yet gotten around to preparing the older machine for sale to a friend. It really is unfortunate that Samsung felt the need to include that proprietary software at all instead of just allowing the consumer to format the drive as desired and move right into using it.