I am considering buying a portable device to store files, taking advantage of Black Friday prices. My candidates are:

-Crucial X9 Pro 2TB SSD. Up to 1050MB/s. About 120 euros.

-SSD Crucial 2 TB. Up to 1050 MB/s. About 125 euros.

-Crucial X10 Pro 2TB SSD. Up to 2100 MB/s. About 200 euros.

-SanDisk 2TB Extreme SSD. Up to 1050 MB/s. About 130 euros.

-SanDisk Extreme PRO 512GB flash drive. Up to 420 MB/s. About 80 euros.

My first doubt is whether I should consider a flash drive or an external SSD. An external SSD could give me more performance, but I don’t want to lose portability. In case of choosing an external SSD, my doubt would be if paying the higher price (i.e., the Crucial X10 Pro) is worth it.

Any tip is welcome!

  • Unnombrepls@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Crucial internals are fine, however, I am not really sure about the external drives

    I have a crucial external 1 TB from 4 years ago.

    I haven’t used it in 2 years; but I used it for installing skyrim mods. It worked fine and allowed the game to load with almost 1 TB of mods. The weird part was that when I did some “patching” process to the modlist, which takes 1-2 hours while at work, the disk always stopped being read in the middle of the process, something that didn’t happen when I did it at home. Since balance at that level is extremely important and idk, some file might have corrupted, I always restored from my backup before attempting the process again.

    • snatch1e@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      The best description about crucial drives, I believe, that it’s just works. No major issues with it so far.