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echo: rberrypi
to: MARTIN GREGORIE
from: DRUCK
date: 2019-07-03 20:29:00
subject: Re: Recommended USB-C SSD

On 02/07/2019 22:02, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Jul 2019 21:35:21 +0100, druck wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
> I remember Maxtor from back in the noughties. Real junk sold by PC World.

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> I hope their current stuff is *much* better than that. It needs to be.

Maxtor is just a Samsung brand now. I bought the Samsung 1TB USB3 drive
about 4 years ago, when I looked for an another one, I couldn't find it
again, but there was an identical looking Maxtor. I bought that, and
it's exactly the same internals.

---druck

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