Bill Plein🌶
@bici@mastodon.social SSDs. For that small of capacity, go with SSD. If you are on a 2TB HDD budget (not judging) see if you can find used HDD in a larger capacity or dirt cheap 2TB used.
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A 2TB SDD is fine. and it is not much more costly.
Bill Plein🌶@bici@mastodon.social Also for SSDs: if you are going to run them “full” and can afford the next size up, get the larger drive and create an empty partition on them to maintain room for TRIM and garbage collection. Spreading writes over more flash also helps with endurance.
But if this is a locally attached Time Machine drive, you probably can’t do that. MacOS will want to format the whole thing as APFS and then it will use the whole thing. (1/2)
Bill Plein🌶@bici@mastodon.social Good!
For SSDs, I recommend buying brands that are owned by the NAND chip forges. Samsung, Toshiba (they spun off their NAND as Kioxia so that is also a good brand), and Crucial (Micron).
Even though it’s been many years since I worked for a NAND Flash storage company, I avoid Hynix due to bugs they had in their NAND (over a decade ago) and SanDisk (who bought our company and had buggy firmware on their SSDs around the same time).