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You can buy USB3 M.2 SSD enclosures for ~$20. They are larger than normal flash drives at about 5" long but still reasonably pocketable and much higher performa

by opencl 8y ago

You can buy USB3 M.2 SSD enclosures for ~$20. They are larger than normal flash drives at about 5" long but still reasonably pocketable and much higher performance than normal flash drives. Drop in a 1TB SSD for ~$200 and you're good to go. I had a friend in college that backed up all of his files on a flash drive but he used git rather than rsync.

LeifCarrotson 8y ago
> Drop in a 1TB SSD for ~$200 and you're good to go. O_o ...For some reason, my mental model of SSD rates was stuck in 2014 at $0.50/GB. As I type this, my laptop is busy moving a VM image over to the NAS to free up some space on my 256 GB SSD. But no, according to https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/internal-hard-drive/ https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/internal-hard-drive/ and https://pcpartpicker.com/products/internal-hard-drive/ https://pcpartpicker.com/products/internal-hard-drive/, you can indeed find SSDs at $0.20/GB (the low end being currently dominated by Crucial MX500 drives at $0.18/GB). Looks like it's long past time to upgrade!
- opencl 8y ago
  You can get even cheaper, the Micron 1100 2TB drives are only $0.15/GB at $300.
- ta658567959 8y ago
  After my last SSD died, I'd have a hard time trusting SSD's again for backup purposes (this is probably 8-10 years ago though I suppose). It was more the way it failed - I had one or two boots where a few errors started to pop up, and then the next boot, nothing - the disk had disappeared to the BIOS' eyes and any other tools - just dead as a doornail with no easy way of getting any of the data off it. I assume they've improved in that regard, or are spinning platters still a safer proposition over the long term?
  - mmt 8y ago
    8-10 years ago is a very long time, especially for what was still a relatively new, low-volume product in the consumer market. > I assume they've improved in that regard, or are spinning platters still a safer proposition over the long term? I don't think you need to assume..just check out what statistics are out there. Sadly, I don't know of anyone publishing numbers for consumer SSDs like Backblaze does for spinning disks.

by opencl 8y ago

LeifCarrotson 8y ago

> Drop in a 1TB SSD for ~$200 and you're good to go. O_o ...For some reason, my mental model of SSD rates was stuck in 2014 at $0.50/GB. As I type this, my laptop is busy moving a VM image over to the NAS to free up some space on my 256 GB SSD. But no, according to https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/internal-hard-drive/ https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/internal-hard-drive/ and https://pcpartpicker.com/products/internal-hard-drive/ https://pcpartpicker.com/products/internal-hard-drive/, you can indeed find SSDs at $0.20/GB (the low end being currently dominated by Crucial MX500 drives at $0.18/GB). Looks like it's long past time to upgrade!

opencl 8y ago
You can get even cheaper, the Micron 1100 2TB drives are only $0.15/GB at $300.
ta658567959 8y ago
After my last SSD died, I'd have a hard time trusting SSD's again for backup purposes (this is probably 8-10 years ago though I suppose). It was more the way it failed - I had one or two boots where a few errors started to pop up, and then the next boot, nothing - the disk had disappeared to the BIOS' eyes and any other tools - just dead as a doornail with no easy way of getting any of the data off it. I assume they've improved in that regard, or are spinning platters still a safer proposition over the long term?
- mmt 8y ago
  8-10 years ago is a very long time, especially for what was still a relatively new, low-volume product in the consumer market. > I assume they've improved in that regard, or are spinning platters still a safer proposition over the long term? I don't think you need to assume..just check out what statistics are out there. Sadly, I don't know of anyone publishing numbers for consumer SSDs like Backblaze does for spinning disks.