Not ATL, decent flash drive if you need fast speeds and its 40% off.
I use mine as a ventoy disk for medicat and some ISO's.
CamelCamelCamel.
(Can't actually neg to warn people as I revoked my upvote, but yeah, 40MB/s not 900MB/s or 1000MB/s)
Weird, I'm not getting 800/700 with CrystalDiskaMark, real world transfers are varied, depending on what I'm transferring but in general its around 700. Seen it spike to 1000 or so before but not sustained.
went on a benchmarking frenzy….
Device | Write | Read
Sandisk Extreme Pro USB 3.1 | ~120MB/s | 190MB/s
Sandisk SDCZ880-128GB | ~93MB/S | 240 MB/S
Unknown Sandisk I found | ~10MB/s | ~23MB/s
Sony SL BG2 | 380MB/s | 430MB/S
Custom NVMe in UGREEN case | 989MB/s | 1011MB/s
Tl;dr: Buy a NVME Case and make your own.
Cheap NVMe drive $31: https://www.amazon.com.au/Silicon-Power-256GB-Gen3x4-SP256GB…
Ugreen nvme enclosure varies, atm $27: https://www.amazon.com.au/UGREEN-Enclosure-Tool-Free-Thunder…
I am planning to keep a offline backup of my google photos.
Please tell me Should I go for nvme in case or a external hdd for long term storage?
Stick with HDD for backup.
NVMe/SSD are electronic devices so it is a lot "easier" to wake up one day and they are RIP.
HDD gives you sign that it is dying but it is not perfect either.
Whatever you pick, make sure your backup has contingency, trusting your data on a single 5TB HDD for example is as good as nothing, if anything happens to it, there goes your single backup.
Make sure you have at least two NVMe/HDD, one as backup and the other as contingency in case things go sideways.
Believe me, it is not a matter if if will happen but when will it happen, a week, a month, a year, 10y.
If its just photos DVD-R's will be fine and will last longer than mechanical HDD's generally, easy to have a handful across several locations incase of fire damage etc but obviously don't plan on them lasting multiple decades. Physical prints are also pretty cheap in bulk(<10c each) if the photos are that important.
@teckiwi: Nah, DVD-R belongs to the 90s era even so I buying physical 4K UHD blurays and physical XBox media but for backup, forget about this 90s solution.
DVD-R is the least secure place to store backup plus you need a DVD reader which is no longer coming on laptop nowadays.
@ratoloko: They are asking about images, it's entirely likely they could fit on a handful of dvd's for a few bucks rather than buying a HDD/device which will have a high recovery cost if/when it fails in the future anyway. Theres DVD options for long storage that are expected to last 50-100 years in optimal conditions.
DVD drives are not going anywhere in the few decades(will continue to be external because theres billions of dvds in active circulation today), I would say you are far more likely to see massive changes in connectivity for traditional HDDs in a short timeframe(ie like the switch from IDE to SATA and now onto M.2) and that will be a larger issue than DVD phasing out.
External HDD for just archived storage
An external HDD will max out a 100Mbps connection and likely even Google drives typical ~300Mbps max
If it's a small amount (say 64GB) just a cheap USB will work.
Any reason you need them backed up locally and online though? You can mount GoogleDrive in Windows
Thanks for the advice.
Although I have a slow 1tb Toshiba hdd currently but recently read about the 3-2-1 rule and wanted to implement that.
Thinking of buying 2x 2tb WD my passport ultras. I only have a 1TB data for last 10 years. So they should be enough for another 10 years and then I can upgrade and hopefully drives are cheaper then.
@sekhon147: 3-2-1 is really for enterprise level backups of mission critical things, your photos are quite safe on just GoogleDrive and a local backup
Plus the GoogleDrive story you mention is, well, that's not how you should share or store medical photos anyway.
p.s. For cheaper alternatives watch for UGREEN NVMe deals here and NVMe drive deals of a size you need.
I don't see the point of USB stick in 2024
NVMe are a lot cheaper, greater capacity, faster, add a good quality case to it and you have the best of it all.
This is similar pricing to an NVMe solution (if it worked), but it's basically a fake
I’m after one with both USB-c and USB-a. Thought this was going to be a winner from the size!
I got this for $40 previously very rare promo though it seems
Edit:
Order Summary
Item(s) Subtotal:$79.49
Delivery:$0.00
Total Before GST:$79.49
GST:$7.95
Total:$87.44
Promotion(s) Applied:-$46.73
Grand Total:$40.71
It was a sneaky 'click for 50% off' deal or something so trackers won't pick it up
Edit: Just benchmarked it and have to neg this… absolute garbage. Maxed out at 40MB/s (yes on a type-c port)