portable ssd

[Phil Waclawski]

The one advantage of an SSD vs a spinning USB Hard drive is that you can
bump an SSD drive without worrying about the drive crashing, regardless of
speed.
Drawback is you usually want to keep it at most about 70% full so it can do
proper wear levelling
Phil W

On Sat, Sep 3, 2022 at 11:43 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> I’m not considering usb2/3/4. I’m thinking about when I upgrade my
> computer. Right now I’m usb2. I know it will be slow that it might as well
> be a spinner.
>
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 4, 2022 at 2:18 AM Joe Neglia via PLUG-discuss <
> plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>
>> Especially if the controller supports UASP.  *aboutHuge* speed increase.
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 3, 2022 at 11:15 PM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss <
>> plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 2022-09-03 at 19:11 -0700, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>>> > If I recall correctly what was said is USB will create a bottleneck so
>>> > an SSD drive is of no benefit.  That is why the spinner was
>>> recommended.
>>>
>>> I think I was the one who said that, but it was in regard to USB2. I
>>> think USB3 is
>>> fast enough to gain benefit from an SSD.
>>>
>>> SteveT
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