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Originally Posted by stomachmonkey

The Samsung T series are my go to.

Have a bunch of 5 and 7, no issues with them.

They are very lite which gave me the impression they might be delicate but my oldest is 5 years old now and they travel with me without issue.

If you want hefty rugged feeling this is my other go to.

https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Professional-2TB-G-DRIVE-SDPS11A-002T-GBANB/dp/B0929B5DWQ/ref=sr_1_3?crid=20RU93EBVX2T4&keywords=g%2Bdrive%2Bssd&qid=1646584391&sprefix=g%2Bdrive%2Bssd%2Caps%2C108&sr=8-3&th=1

Your other option, build your own.

Grab a Samsung EVO NVMe and an external case.

That way you know what's really in it.

That's good to know about your experience with the T-series. And yeah, I hadn't thought about making my own. I've done the same in the past when I had an old drive that I wanted to get data off of.

Originally Posted by Paul T

I have one of these for backups, works great.

https://www.glyphtech.com/product/studio-raid-external-hard-drive

Yeah, I've got a NAS with 4 drives running RAID so that I've got 4TB of storage on the network.

Originally Posted by stomachmonkey

How much data do you need to back up and will you be using laptop or PC that has an open pci slot?

1TB would probably be plenty. My computer has a 1TB drive and the wife's has got 256GB. Here's is probably only half full and will be a full backup. Mine is probably 750GB, but a lot of that is music, videos, photos that are backed up to the NAS, so those will be skipped. My backup will probably only be ~300GB.

No, these are both Mac's, an iMac and an old macbook air, so no expansion slots.