so it's impossible to find affordable SSDs anymore huhcool cool cool cool cool
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should I just get a decent HDD?
I need 4TB to increase my Time Machine capacity, and 4TB SSDs currently cost half a house each, so yea@nileane I just bought myself two 5TB 2.5" disks. Their power consumption is significantly lower than 3.5", so they run fine with just USB power. Obviously not as fast as a bigger HDD, let alone SSD, but for backup imho that isn't a major concern.
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@eramdam yeah it will just be stashed under my desk. Currently my Time Machine is on an old 2TB Samsung T5
@nileane then yeah just get a decent portable HDD and it should be fine tbh.
(Or delete some old backups
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so it's impossible to find affordable SSDs anymore huh
cool cool cool cool cool@nileane SSD's *and* mechanicals have gone up
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@nileane then yeah just get a decent portable HDD and it should be fine tbh.
(Or delete some old backups
)@eramdam I've been offloading a bunch of stuff off of iCloud and onto my new 2TB Samsung T7 that I keep mounted to my MacBook, and I'd like to keep including that SSD in Time Machine, so I simply need more capacity for Time Machine
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@nileane SSD's *and* mechanicals have gone up
@keir HDDs are still much cheaper tho
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@eramdam I've been offloading a bunch of stuff off of iCloud and onto my new 2TB Samsung T7 that I keep mounted to my MacBook, and I'd like to keep including that SSD in Time Machine, so I simply need more capacity for Time Machine
@nileane fair haha
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@keir HDDs are still much cheaper tho
@nileane true true!
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@nileane I just bought myself two 5TB 2.5" disks. Their power consumption is significantly lower than 3.5", so they run fine with just USB power. Obviously not as fast as a bigger HDD, let alone SSD, but for backup imho that isn't a major concern.
@lsmith ah, thanks!
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@lsmith ah, thanks!
that's good to know@nileane BTW I am in the process of replacing my 3.5" RAID 5 Synology NAS.
New NAS will be a Raspberry Pi 4, with one 5TB drive for backup and another 2TB 2.5" drive for time-maschine. Cheaper, energy efficient, and backup is physically separated (bedroom vs. cellar).
Other 5 TB drive I will connect to my laptop now and then (especially if I work with larger video files). I will then likely use CarbonCopyCloner to automatically sync any files from that drive to the one attached to the NAS.
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should I just get a decent HDD?
I need 4TB to increase my Time Machine capacity, and 4TB SSDs currently cost half a house each, so yea@nileane I'm very glad I switched to SSDs for time machine in 2024 -my time machine drive was constantly grinding and active even when it was supposedly idle!
But yeah - yikes SSD prices are nuts now. I got a 8TB samsung sata drive on ebay in summer 2024 for ~400 (which seemed like a lot at the time!) Same drive now new is $1200?! 🫠
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