druck wrote, on 09-01-2019 21:10:
> On 08/01/2019 07:18, A. Dumas wrote:
>> Simply get any 2.5" portable disk. It won't need external power. Make
>> sure you use the official RPi power adapter for the Pi, though.
>
> I don't know why you would even consider a conventional disc with a
> Raspberry Pi, they are power hungry and slower than SD cards for small
> random access transfers, due to latency.
>
> On the other hand an SSD has great random access performance, and has no
> power issues. It's not even like its expensive - a band new SanDisk
> 120GB SSD can be had for £20, which is only a couple a quid more than a
> SanDisk 128GB SD card.

For me: speed is not an issue, power not a limiting factor, I wanted a 1
TB drive, prices were much different 1-2 years ago.

Also generally, SSD is still like Flash, albeit much better managed and
larger and with larger spare space, hopefully. I don't know how much
worse it is (i.e. if it's more like an SD card) if you get a small,
bargain basement SSD.

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