Solid State Drive (SDD) Suggestions

[mrsterryn]

Looking to try and work out a decent SDD but not fabulously expensive lol (kinda blinked at some of them , Officeworks had some rather expensive ones lol )
Want these to ensure reasonable security of data integrity.
Husband wants one for all his movies over the years
I want for all these damm photos I am scanning and trying to sort out.
Easily transportable and portable
Any suggestions?

 

[elanshin]

I guess the questions to be asked are:

How big do you need it to be? (Storage size).
Is it a commonly accessed storage or just an archival storage ? - if its archive purposes I wouldn't recommend an SSD.
How often and where do you need to bring it around to if at all?

 

[mrsterryn]

I guess the questions to be asked are:

How big do you need it to be? (Storage size).
Is it a commonly accessed storage or just an archival storage ? - if its archive purposes I wouldn't recommend an SSD.
How often and where do you need to bring it around to if at all?

Thanks

1 TB for photos, probably accessed once a month to possibly update
2 TB regularly accessed and updated

 

[TheRealTMA]

Unfortunately you have picked a bad time to buy an SSD. 1TB SSD prices have risen significantly, some 2-3 times, from early 2025 to 2026. Some forecasts suggest combined NAND and DRAM price increases could exceed 130% by the end of 2026.

I use a number of Samsung T3s SSD (500G-2T) which are quite old now but they are and have worked very well. Perhaps consider one of the newer versions from Samsung or perhaps Toshiba, or maybe a Western Digital WE Elements 1T portable drive. About $100ish from Officeworks or Amazon.

 

[elanshin]

Thanks

1 TB for photos, probably accessed once a month to possibly update
2 TB regularly accessed and updated

If its just pushing photos in as a backup storage - perhaps it might be more worthwhile to look at a 6-8TB HDD instead of an SSD. It would be significantly cheaper.

Unless you really need the performance speeds of an SSD. An SSD is slightly more reliable on the long run than HDD, but probably not enough to justify the cost difference (and if you really want to be protective of data you can buy multiple HDDs still for less than a 4TB external SSD).