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Date/Time: Tue, 26 Nov 2024 02:25:23 +0000
[User Discussion] - External SSD drive
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| [2024-01-17 12:00:30] |
| User333366 - Posts: 10 |
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I have a relatively new laptop which unfortunately only has 1 hard drive (which now is starting to fill up - although Sierra itself is only at 30 GB) So far, I have only been trading 1 instrument (ES) but would like to add a few more. I was thinking of getting a (portable) external SSD and I wanted to get your take on this. In particular, 2 options that I would like to share. Not sure what the policy is around products, so I will just describe the specs and not link to a brand or product - 2TB drive USB 3.1 Gen2, 1000 MB/s Transfer speeds - 2TB drive USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 , 1500 MB/s Transfer Speeds - 1TB drive ThunderboltTM 3 mode has transfer speeds of up to 2700 MBps - I do have a thunderbolt 4 port (which I now use to connect a hub - especially when travelling - but this hub only supports speeds up to 1000MB/s. But also seems thunderbolt 4 SSDs are still very very expensive. I ran a benchmark test on my laptop and the speeds I get from my internal drive range from 4130MB/s (large files) to 16MB/s (small files) Do you have any recommendations for me with regards such an external solution? Is this sufficiently fast? In particular would 1000MB/s be fast enough? |
| [2024-01-18 09:37:45] |
| User61168 - Posts: 403 |
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only has 1 hard drive just a quick comment... if your internal drive is not a newer generation nvme SSD, I would highly recommend getting a new laptop. It made a huge difference for me with superfast ssd when I upgraded mine in late 2022.
Date Time Of Last Edit: 2024-01-18 09:38:28
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| [2024-01-18 15:15:30] |
| User333366 - Posts: 10 |
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The internal drive I have is a M.2 NVMe PCI 4.0 SSD. It is plenty fast (just small) and since I read that sierra recommends installing it onto a separate disk alltogether, I only have the option to use a usb or thunderbolt drive. Do you know what kind of drive you had before? And what the speeds were? That might give me a benchmark. |
| [2024-01-18 20:19:56] |
| ForgivingComputers.com - Posts: 960 |
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I would upgrade the internal drive. You can get 1 TB upgrades for less than $100.
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| [2024-01-18 20:27:19] |
| User61168 - Posts: 403 |
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Do you know what kind of drive you had before? And what the speeds were? That might give me a benchmark. I had a regular HDD. My ssd is 500gb and went with smaller size as I read somewhere bigger capacity ssd comes with slower performance. I would still suggest upgrading internal drive instead of running SC off USB port. It’s good only if you travel a lot (or for routine backups which is what I use for). 500gb is plenty so you might have a lot of garbage from sim trade logs, message logs etc piling up that require some housekeeping. Also scid files keeps growing in size over time so take a look at all those things as well.
Date Time Of Last Edit: 2024-01-18 20:27:52
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