[masraum]

Calling on the braintrust to advise what external SSD they have had good luck with. I've been looking on Amazon, and, of course, there are bad reviews for everything. I'm hoping to get some trustworthy real world reviews.

I've seen some WD drives on Amazon that were mostly good reviews, but then have a ton of recent bad reviews.

I was then looking at Samsung drives on Amazon. The fast one (T7) is reported by a ton of people to run very hot, even when it's plugged in but sitting idle, so some folks recommended the T5 which is the same but about half as fast, and that's got a whole slew of other complains.

I figured SSD will make the backups much faster, but now I'm wondering about going back to spinning platters. I don't have to have the speed, I guess.

This drive will mostly be used to back up 2 computers weekly. My NAS is too full, and no longer accepting backups. I'll either get a second NAS or upgrade my existing RAID NAS eventually, but not right now.

Thanks