I have heard these might not be the best options for long term storage because of data rot, I have a LOT of photographs to store, could fill up a few of these no problem (huge raw plus lots of scanned large and medium format TIFF's) but have never made the jump because of that and price, but now price is getting to be a non-issue. Thoughts?
I have heard these might not be the best options for long term storage because of data rot, I have a LOT of photographs to store, could fill up a few of these no problem (huge raw plus lots of scanned large and medium format TIFF's) but have never made the jump because of that and price, but now price is getting to be a non-issue. Thoughts?
Are you talking about for a laptop? Because if it for a desktop you would be better off just to use a plain old fashioned SATA drive as a second hard drive and store all the photos and other media on that (Could also make a backup of the entire SSD and store it on the old fashioned drive as well for redundancy)
The more that SSD drives go down in price, Platter drives also drop (in proportion) so when will it be more cost effective to use SSD drives and dispense with platter drives?
Unless of course we are talking about a laptop that only holds a single hdd (Then of course it should be SSD)
One good thing about these small SSD's they have forced us not to archive a bunch of old useless stuff the way we used to. We dont need an iso of Windows M.E. do we? Delete that old stuff.
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Yes, but this is the high end Extreme Pro, warranty is 10 years at 20GB/day writes. This one's designed for tons of writes.
Are you talking about for a laptop? Because if it for a desktop you would be better off just to use a plain old fashioned SATA drive as a second hard drive and store all the photos and other media on that (Could also make a backup of the entire SSD and store it on the old fashioned drive as well for redundancy)
The more that SSD drives go down in price, Platter drives also drop (in proportion) so when will it be more cost effective to use SSD drives and dispense with platter drives?
Unless of course we are talking about a laptop that only holds a single hdd (Then of course it should be SSD)
One good thing about these small SSD's they have forced us not to archive a bunch of old useless stuff the way we used to. We dont need an iso of Windows M.E. do we? Delete that old stuff.
Thank you!