"While external drives work adequately in long-term archival purposes, the mechanical disk in these (HDD) drives has speeds that are painfully slow when compared with other media. In other words, copying the contents of hundreds of gigs in photos, 4K video productions and the like in external drives takes forever, and you're watching the bar advance at a sluggish 100-150 MB/s."
"SSD drives eliminate this problem with the help of external flash drives that can read and write files in over 2,000MB/s, which makes the process in seconds / minutes rather than hours - but it's way more expensive. The good news is that the Crucial X10 4TB SSD now goes for $229, was $395 (42% off) and it's the lowest price on Black Friday, almost even equivalent in price to basic external drives."
"The read speeds offered by the SSDs at 2,100 MB/s are approximately 15 times the speeds offered by external hard drives, making the SSDs remarkable in terms of file transfer. Where an external HDD would take 15 minutes to transfer a 100GB 4K file, the SSD would take less than a minute, and where the external HDD would take over an hour to transfer a 500GB gaming collection, the SSD would take approximately 4 minutes."
Mechanical HDD-based external drives provide adequate long-term archival storage but deliver slow transfer speeds around 100–150 MB/s, making large photo and 4K video copies time-consuming. High-performance external SSDs deliver read/write speeds over 2,000 MB/s, shrinking multi-gig transfers from hours to minutes or seconds. The Crucial X10 4TB SSD is discounted to $229 from $395 (42% off), closing the price gap with basic external drives. USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 enables top speeds on USB-C, adapters allow USB-A connectivity at reduced rates, and the drive is broadly compatible across major platforms and consoles.
Read at Kotaku
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