On 01/07/2019 23:54, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> 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.

The WD's aren't SSDs though.

I have a couple of Samsung/Maxtor 1TB USB3 drives, but they are only 
USB3, they aren't a SATA drive with a converter in the case. SO you 
can't just disconnect the USB to SATA converter and put them in a fast 
SATA duplicator.

---druck

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