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Originally Posted by ApK
My instincts say stay with the most proven reliable tech for backups.
If nothing else, with SSDs, you are paying a premium for speed. That's not really a prime concern for backups, so let SSDs get their long term field testing done where they do the most good.
That being said, SSDs made for constant operation in a computer have to be at least as reliable as a USB flash drive, so it that's what you were going to use for backup anyway.....
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The most proven reliable tech can fail - my 2TB Seagate GoFlex external drive used to be dead. Been sitting around for almost a year now. This thread made me wonder if it may not have been a glitch on my part. The drive is a usb 3.0 capable drive with the usb 3.0 cord along with it. My computer only has usb 2.0 as well as the old computer that went belly up shortly after the external drive complained about errors. So I tried a brand new usb 2.0 cord today. It took a little bit for my computer to be ready to read from it, but it is working now. I am getting about 19MB/s on average read speed which is what I would reasonably expect over usb 2.0. The last time I tried to copy the data off of it it usually failed after hanging at a few hundred bytes per second.
Sometimes even the cheapest little silly thing can fail - in this case a cable.
Yay, 36 GB of data which was previously considered lost is back.
