Ideal Stuff for Photography/Video Storage: Samsung T7 2TB SSD + 20TB/22TB Hard Drives
There are higher-performance 2TB SSDs out there, like the OWC Envoy Pro FX or the diminutive OWC Envoy Pro Elektron.
But you cannot go wrong for just $139.99 for the 2TB Samsung T7. And the 4TB model is the same price per GB. For the vast majority of purposes, 2GB nails it, though of course 4TB has a better long term use case (eg you get a new laptop with a 4TB SSD).
I’ve used the Samsung T5 for 3-4 years now (4 of them)—bulletproof. And the Samsung T7 for a year or so now—no issues at all.
Interesting to note that 22TB hard drives are now on the market, one specialized offering for video capture (should be fine for backup but I have not tested it). The industry seems to be struggling to get much past the 20/22TB point... something like 32TB in a single drive would be very helpful but it looks like that’s a few years away. Stick one in a about $49 OWC Mercury Elite Pro USB 3.2 enclosure and you are good to go for a huge but simple backup.
BTW, 20TB for only $360 is fantastic for large backups. Put 4 of them in an OWC Thunderbay 4 and you have 80TB on tap, or 8 of them for 160TB in an OWC Thunderbay 8. That’s an incredible amount of storage that not that long ago was a data center.
Hard drives can be as slow as 1/2 speed vs when empty (π*r^2 circumferential data density), making a 20TB drive an outstanding choice for high performance for up to 14TB or so of actual storage usage. You can of course fill it up, but it will be a lot slower for the last 30% of its capacity.
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