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SSDs and hard drives

Posted by Bill Way on August 18, 2020 at 11:00:20:
Tons of options. Check out the link for an intro.

It's good for external drives, including SSDs, to have their own power supplies, as the power available through the USB cable is often pretty limited.

SSDs are still more expensive than hard drives, but that difference gets smaller every day. Both SSDs and hard drives can handle two- or multi-channel audio with ease. Both should last virtually forever. SSDs are much faster, but both media are plenty fast for audio.

SSDs start to lose data if un-powered for more than a year, and individual memory blocks can start to fail after x-gazillion writes, but you will never approach that.

Hard drives are astonishingly reliable and typically last many years.

Both SSDs and hard drives can, rarely, fail suddenly, so keeping backups on different drives is essential.

Connect to your computer via USB (any version), Firewire, or Thunderbolt. All have plenty capacity/speed for audio, including USB-2. The big nuisance with USB is the plethora of tiny connectors that look *almost* alike but aren't.

Good luck,
WW