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Psycovirus

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fgoh13 said:
Is this similar to HDD?
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It is an external drive that you attach to your PC using USB.

But it is not HDD. It uses SSD, Solid State Drives aka no moving parts, just non-volatile memory based storage. Since it has no moving parts, its harder to breakdown.

However, the price/GB isn't as cheap as compared to HDDs.
 
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Psycovirus said:
It is an external drive that you attach to your PC using USB.

But it is not HDD. It uses SSD, Solid State Drives aka no moving parts, just non-volatile memory based storage. Since it has no moving parts, its harder to breakdown.

However, the price/GB isn't as cheap as compared to HDDs.
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Is there any particular brand or specs for this?
Where can i get it?

Thanks.
 
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actually there was a study done by google with millions of ssds and the conclusion drawn from the study was that a ssd fails due to its age and also a ssd tends to fail faster due to heat. the data reads and writes to/from a ssd does not cause it to fail
 
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terry1 said:
actually there was a study done by google with millions of ssds and the conclusion drawn from the study was that a ssd fails due to its age and also a ssd tends to fail faster due to heat. the data reads and writes to/from a ssd does not cause it to fail
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can share link?
 
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Cloud and NAS both also have their risks. Cloud can get hacked and NAS HDD can fail or get stolen.

I would just go for cloud.
 
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