External SSD vs External HDD

Hitchcock said:
Hey Nerfherder

Thanks, and yes, I agree, but my problem is quiet a bit different. I have around 480GB software. I travel with my current external HDD and I am very rough on it. In fact, I had to replace it twice before due to falling and damaging the drive, hence why I asked about the durability of the SSD earlier.

Since I will be reading from the drive more than writing to it, I think I will get much more life out of it. Also, the protection of my data is very important. When I replaced my previous drives, I had less than 90GB of data. Things have changed and I now have much more.

It was just my opinion that the SSD would serve me better in the end, as an external storage device, and was worth paying the extra money. The smaller drive will also work better for me, which I use on a daily basis for work.
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OK yes, do see your point. I think it does suit your situation
 
Nerfherder said:
Can you assume that your computers you will be using will have have USB 3.


Honestly, I think you will get the speed you need just from the USB3, the SSD in an external will be wasted.
Half the speed of the SSD comes from the OS performance so I think its way better to use for something like that.
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No SSD only real affects your boot times once your OS has loaded in to ram there no further boosts.
SSD is for load times like large photoshop file and games, any large files needing to be read quick, but once opened that's all ram,cpu and gpu. Of course SSD lifespan for read/write is limited so things like video recording is not optimal use of such a drive.
 
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