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I think OP is talking about booting from an operating system installed on the SSD, so I'm not sure how you can replace that with "cloud backups". This sounds l

I think OP is talking about booting from an operating system installed on the SSD, so I'm not sure how you can replace that with "cloud backups". This sounds like an ad, but Sandisk has USB 3.2 flash drive with NVMe inside, that according to this has up to 2 GB/s read speed: https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Extreme-Portable-External-SDSSDE80-1T00-A25/dp/B08GV9M64L?th=1 https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Extreme-Portable-External-SDS... I used the version 1, not NVMe, which can only do half that speed, but I found it plenty fast.

fragmede 6y ago
The technical details may differ between if my data is stored on an SSD I'm accessing locally that I booted from, vs if my data is stored in the cloud and I'm accessing it via a web browser, but at the end of the day, I have access to my files. The technical differences have many practical ramifications (eg disk speed), but they are sufficiently practically equivalent for many different use cases. We see this with Chromebooks, where they will never be a full replacement for every windows machine. There is a large reason they've gained marketshare, however.
Dylan16807 6y ago
Both versions have NVMe inside them, actually. Not that that means anything for performance. NVMe just means that it uses PCIe. Since the external port is USB, the internal use of NVMe is actually a downside. The drive actually has two separate circuit boards inside. One of them takes up space and power just to convert NVMe to USB, and wouldn't exist in a better design. https://i.imgur.com/6oPiOls.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/6oPiOls.jpeg https://static.tweaktown.com/content/9/2/9280_08_sandisk-extreme-pro-1tb-portable-ssd-review_full.jpg https://static.tweaktown.com/content/9/2/9280_08_sandisk-ext...