Mike, I always used to work on the basis of 3 years for conventional desktop drives but the laptop drives seem to be much better so, depending on usage, about 5 years I guess but after that time you would probably find it to be too small anyway.
Lots of manufacturers no longer state the MTBF for drives any more as I guess it is fairly meaningless to most people.
Dave
-----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com Sent: 16 November 2016 21:02 To: ProFox Email List profox@leafe.com Subject: Re: [NF] EXTERNAL SSD hard drives
On 2016-11-15 10:13, Paul Hill wrote:
On 14 November 2016 at 19:46, mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:
Greetings fellow Profoxers!
I see some external SSD drives on this page: http://www.newegg.com/External-SSDs/SubCategory/ID-2022?Tid=11694
My laptop is a maybe 4 years old and is running out of local disk space. I've got another laptop I can migrate to but I was thinking of just extending and still using this one yet (because I love it) and using an external HD would take care of my space issues...at least for now...and give me another area to send backups.
My question: I know SSD drives are 20x faster reportedly, but would that still apply if it's an EXTERNAL drive? I understand that using the USB 3.0 port is better than the older USB 2.x ports and earlier for transfer rates.
Personally I would just buy a replacement internal SSD and a large external HDD. Samsungs are nice.
Clonezilla can be used to transfer your OS to the new drive.
How long do you normally use a laptop hard drive before replacing it (before disaster strikes it)?
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