Portable SSDs

[Nyezhov]

I take a lot of pictures. Im sort of in a bind here. My travel laptop only has 256 gigs and I only have 27 gigs left. its a Lenovo 720 i5 8th. It isnt ideal for what I do, but is moves stuff around and gives me basic photo editing, although I really cant do 4K because it doesnt have the memory or a separate video processor. But its small and light and was cheaper than a Beach Road girl.

 

I use a Samsung 500gig SSD and that is being filled with Raw files and and backup of every Video and jpeg on my puter to the tune of leaving me 170 gigs left. I will fill that up by Christmas. I will fill both by Christmas the way I am going

 

I dont want to shell out for a new puter here in Thailand, frankly they are cheaper in the states and I will need one with separate video card. In a 13-14 inch form factor (traveling) that is going to beat me up. I am not going to rely on the cloud while Im here.

 

My thoughts were to get a TB SSD samsung but I will have to pay more here than in the states. I need something reliable to store raw files and videos. I see that Sandisk and seagate make them and they are reasonably priced, how is the quality? 

 

In terms of non ssds, any to avoid?

[KneeDeep]

What's the question here?? You write about 'portable SSD', yet you are asking about 'non SSD'.

 

The price of a 1TB Seagate Barracuda is 8690. Samsung Evo 860, 9990. I would get the Samsung any day.

 

If you just want something cheap to tide you over, then just get an HDD. There's no telling if you've bought a lemon until it fails. 2000 baht for 2 TB; https://www.jib.co.th/web/product/readProduct/13015 as compared to 8 or 9000 for a 1 TB SSD.

 

Read the reviews if you want to compare SSD. Do you imagine that there is someone here buying samples and running benchmarks? ☺️

 

https://ssd.userbenchmark.com

 

 

[Nyezhov]

33 minutes ago, KneeDeep said:

 

 

 

 

Read the reviews if you want to compare SSD. Do you imagine that there is someone here buying samples and running benchmarks? ☺️

 

https://ssd.userbenchmark.com

 

 

There is somehere who maybe knows what non SSDs are sh*t though in case I chose to be a cheap charlie. and 860s are internal

Edited November 22, 2018 by Nyezhov

[KneeDeep]

6 minutes ago, Nyezhov said:

There is somehere who maybe knows what non SSDs are sh*t though in case I chose to be a cheap charlie. and 860s are internal

 

 

It's temporary storage, cheap charlie doesn't come into it. Check the reviews of the model that interests you.

Of course the EVO 860 is internal, until you take a minute to fit it into an external casing costing a couple of hundred baht. 

 

 

 

Make sure it's USB 3.0 or 3.1

[wgdanson]

THE CLOUD

[chrisinth]

35 minutes ago, wgdanson said:

THE CLOUD

You just beat me to it. As long as you have an internet connection, use it like an external drive. Box, Dropbox, One Drive, I use all three. And that is just 3 out of many that are available.........................

[wgdanson]

1 hour ago, chrisinth said:

You just beat me to it. As long as you have an internet connection, use it like an external drive. Box, Dropbox, One Drive, I use all three. And that is just 3 out of many that are available.........................

You get 15GB for each G Mail account you open. Open one called [email protected], another as [email protected] etc. Although Microsoft One Drive is cheap as chips for 1TB.

[KneeDeep]

Always good to read the OP before replying;

 

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 I am not going to rely on the cloud while Im here.

 

[Nyezhov]

3 hours ago, wgdanson said:

You get 15GB for each G Mail account you open. Open one called [email protected], another as [email protected] etc. Although Microsoft One Drive is cheap as chips for 1TB.

I have tons of cloud storage. it doesnt work for me.

[Nyezhov]

5 hours ago, KneeDeep said:

 

 

It's temporary storage, cheap charlie doesn't come into it. Check the reviews of the model that interests you.

Of course the EVO 860 is internal, until you take a minute to fit it into an external casing costing a couple of hundred baht. 

 

 

 

Make sure it's USB 3.0 or 3.1

didnt know they had those cases here. guess its time for a trip to Fortune Town

[wgdanson]

9 hours ago, Nyezhov said:

I have tons of cloud storage. it doesnt work for me.

Any idea why, it's perfect for me, and thousands of other.

[KittenKong]

58 minutes ago, wgdanson said:

Any idea why, it's perfect for me, and thousands of other.

No reliable internet connection?

[KittenKong]

16 hours ago, Nyezhov said:

and 860s are internal

All hard drives are manufactured as internal, but some are sold already fitted into a caddy or case. Open up that caddy/case and you will find a normal internal hard drive inside, just like the sort you would fit inside a PC or laptop.

[wgdanson]

8 minutes ago, KittenKong said:

No reliable internet connection?

Just have to wait til 5G comes along.   lol 

[Nyezhov]

37 minutes ago, KittenKong said:

No reliable internet connection?

An hour of 4k video taxes even the fastest connection. With a portable, I have fast access in planes, , trains, automobiles. I dumped 26 gigs last night in a few minutes, would have taken me hours to the cloud. 

 

I have a 100gig account at Daego filled with backups..of backups from 5 years ago. My two google pictures accounts are full with pics and vids off my cell phone. Thats just the old stuff. Maybe I should just start deleting stuff, but regardless, I prefer working with my data in my hand as opposed to the cloud. I like Fords, you cloud guys like Chevys/

 

Any advice you can give, Im headed to Fortune Town to spend money.

[tweedledee2]

I was in the local Tesco yesterday and they had WD My Passport 500GB and 1TB external drives on clearance at 50% off for 845 baht.

[doctormann]

14 hours ago, Nyezhov said:

didnt know they had those cases here. guess its time for a trip to Fortune Town

InvadeIT have many enclosures <http://www.invadeit.co.th/>

[wgdanson]

3 hours ago, Nyezhov said:

An hour of 4k video taxes even the fastest connection

Does one MINUTE of 4K video not need the same bandwidth/speed as one HOUR, but for 60 times longer.

[Nyezhov]

2 hours ago, tweedledee2 said:

I was in the local Tesco yesterday and they had WD My Passport 500GB and 1TB external drives on clearance at 50% off for 845 baht.

In Bangkok?

 

[Nyezhov]

30 minutes ago, wgdanson said:

Does one MINUTE of 4K video not need the same bandwidth/speed as one HOUR, but for 60 times longer.

I couldnt tell you dude. I tried to upload a video in the USA on the East Coat and it timed out three times on me. I just cant work with the cloud the way I want to work, and cant understand why that is a problem for folks? I just transferred 23 gigs of RAW files in three minutes, bingo, done. I almost filled up a 64 gig card in one night last night, dropped it from the card to the Samsung via the laptop, went to take a dump, came back and fini.

[wgdanson]

53 minutes ago, Nyezhov said:

I couldnt tell you dude. I tried to upload a video in the USA on the East Coat and it timed out three times on me. I just cant work with the cloud the way I want to work, and cant understand why that is a problem for folks? I just transferred 23 gigs of RAW files in three minutes, bingo, done. I almost filled up a 64 gig card in one night last night, dropped it from the card to the Samsung via the laptop, went to take a dump, came back and fini.

That is faaaaaaaaaaaaaaast.

 

Edited November 23, 2018 by wgdanson

[Nyezhov]

3 minutes ago, wgdanson said:

That is faaaaaaaaaaaaaaast.

 

Well not really I read the NY times because that's what I use when Big C doesn't deliver my TP order ,????

[wgdanson]

4 minutes ago, Nyezhov said:

Well not really I read the NY times because that's what I use when Big C doesn't deliver my TP order ,????

I think you are taking the p...s !

[wgdanson]

1 hour ago, Nyezhov said:

I couldnt tell you dude. I tried to upload a video in the USA on the East Coat and it timed out three times on me. I just cant work with the cloud the way I want to work, and cant understand why that is a problem for folks? I just transferred 23 gigs of RAW files in three minutes, bingo, done. I almost filled up a 64 gig card in one night last night, dropped it from the card to the Samsung via the laptop, went to take a dump, came back and fini.

23 gigs, bits or bytes, from what to what, via USB 3?

[Nyezhov]

32 minutes ago, wgdanson said:

23 gigs, bits or bytes, from what to what, via USB 3?

I think it's 3.0 but I would have to look. 

[wgdanson]

11 minutes ago, Nyezhov said:

I think it's 3.0 but I would have to look. 

23 Gb (bits) should take 5 seconds via USB 3 at full speed. 23 GB (bytes) 8 x longer = 40 seconds. 

 

[Nyezhov]

8 minutes ago, wgdanson said:

23 Gb (bits) should take 5 seconds via USB 3 at full speed. 23 GB (bytes) 8 x longer = 40 seconds. 

 

Well next time I'll put a stopwatch on it and give you the exact reading to the nanosecond ????????????????

[KneeDeep]

On 11/23/2018 at 8:17 AM, wgdanson said:

23 Gb (bits) should take 5 seconds via USB 3 at full speed. 23 GB (bytes) 8 x longer = 40 seconds. 

 

 

?? Full speed of what?? You are limited by the write capability of the storage medium.

microSD card perhaps 100 MB/s max. If it could sustain that, it would take around 4 minutes.

 

 

[wgdanson]

18 minutes ago, KneeDeep said:

 

?? Full speed of what?? You are limited by the write capability of the storage medium.

microSD card perhaps 100 MB/s max. If it could sustain that, it would take around 4 minutes.

 

 

You are correct. I was merely quoting the maximum speed of USB3, not taking into account any buffers or other bottlenecks, Silly me.

[KneeDeep]

https://www.macworld.com/article/2039427/how-fast-is-usb-3-0-really-.html

 

An old article, but it gives you some idea of what you can achieve with HDD via USB 3.0. Perfectly acceptable.