Thats a samsung T series (hard to say which model probably T5) i have been using them for backups for a few years now. They have USB 3.1 and write at ~300 MB/s. Very light which is nice for travel and if you format it correctly it plays nice with your phone too
I presume that the SSD wouldn’t consume enough power to make this unusable, but SSDs tend to not retain data when they’re sitting on a shelf. Additionally, I believe USB-C 3.0’s speeds are slower than SATA, although I could be wrong on that one.
SSDs and USBs use the same NAND flash technology to store data. Neither has a battery, so there is absolutely no power, and therefore no data transfer going on here.
NAND Flash can degrade over time, but so can any other form of data storage. It has nothing to do with being unpowered.
Fun fact: SSDs rely on quantum mechanics to store data. They’re really fun to read about, and not even slightly intuitive.
Maybe I’m perpetuating outdated wisdom here, but my understanding is that HDDs can prevent data rot without being powered and accessed for 10 years, an SSD for a few months to a few years, and magnetic tape storage lasts far longer (archival usage).
By data transfer, I meant read/write speed, sorry.
Is this a good backup solution? What are transfer speeds like?
Thats a samsung T series (hard to say which model probably T5) i have been using them for backups for a few years now. They have USB 3.1 and write at ~300 MB/s. Very light which is nice for travel and if you format it correctly it plays nice with your phone too
I presume that the SSD wouldn’t consume enough power to make this unusable, but SSDs tend to not retain data when they’re sitting on a shelf. Additionally, I believe USB-C 3.0’s speeds are slower than SATA, although I could be wrong on that one.
SSDs and USBs use the same NAND flash technology to store data. Neither has a battery, so there is absolutely no power, and therefore no data transfer going on here.
NAND Flash can degrade over time, but so can any other form of data storage. It has nothing to do with being unpowered.
Fun fact: SSDs rely on quantum mechanics to store data. They’re really fun to read about, and not even slightly intuitive.
Maybe I’m perpetuating outdated wisdom here, but my understanding is that HDDs can prevent data rot without being powered and accessed for 10 years, an SSD for a few months to a few years, and magnetic tape storage lasts far longer (archival usage).
By data transfer, I meant read/write speed, sorry.