On Mon, 01 Jul 2019 20:45:52 +0100, druck wrote:

> On 30/06/2019 11:55, David Taylor wrote:
>> Any recommendation for an SSD drive for a Raspberry Pi 4B?  Must be
>> USB-C, of course, but capacity not critical.  Seems that 256 GB is
>> likely the sweet spot for value per GB.
>
> The USB C connector is only used to provide power to the Pi.
> Get a standard 2.5" SATA SSD and a USB3 to SATA cable.
>
Or, if you need another disk, maybe just get a WD Essentials USB drive.
They have USB3 connectivity to an USB-A socket and come in 1 or 2 TB
capacity. I'm using them for backups (both weekly with rsync and daily
with rsnapshot) and so far they just work and are a lot smaller than an
RPI4.


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