External hard drive recommendations

[Steve McF]

I need to look to get another external hard drive to carry on backing up loads of videos I keep taking with my phone of my lad playing in various local bands he's in, and open mics he does. Yje 2 TB drive I got a while ago is filling up, so I need another one with good capacity very soon.

I'm interested in a solid state drive this time with as much capacity as I can afford.

Anyone got any recommendations?

[welshwizard]

I would stick with the well known names.  I did get a Samsung SSD for OH's computer a few months ago and it does the job, I tend to stick with WD HDD drives.  Seagate and Toshiba are other names I can think of.

And buy a pair so you have at least one drive in case the other one fails.  Memory is cheap now, my latest 4TB WBs cost me less than my 250GB I bought a few years ago..

[Geoff1951]

Ditto welshwizard's comments.
 I've been using Samsung SSDs for over 10 years, never any problems. You'll know SSDs are much faster than spinning drives.  On Amazon and their own website external SSDs are around £100 per 2Tb.
Never look back at prices with regret - I paid over £100 for 500Gb just two years ago, and the same for 250 Gb a cople of years before that.  SSD capacity is very roughly twice the price of HDD, but far less than it used to be and worth it for speed and reliability, though you'd be very unlucky to have a HDD fail these days.
WD and Crucial (more commonly known for their RAM) are worth a look. Toshiba seem to only do HDDs these days.
I've bought from CCL Computers in Bradford many times, great prices and service - I've no connection other than as a customer.

Avoid Currys.  Limited range, overpriced, and I've seen them sell very unsuitable kit to friends and family.

[sgould]

When I look back at prices, our first Apple computer at work was £6000 and had a massive 1MB of RAM and a whole 20MB internal hard disc.  !980's...

[Steve McF]

When I look back at prices, our first Apple computer at work was £6000 and had a massive 1MB of RAM and a whole 20MB internal hard disc.  !980's...

Probably be worth quite a bit if you can find one now

[carrera]

I have been using Western Digital SSD's for a while. New laptop came with a 500GB M.2 drive, which I swapped out immediately for a 2TB. In the process I acquired a M.2 USB2 /3  card reader. Most handy

[welshwizard]

Avoid Currys.  Limited range, overpriced, and I've seen them sell very unsuitable kit to friends and family.

Funny you should mention that Geoff.  When I was shopping for some 2 or 3 TB WD drives - ordered from that well known river-based provider on the Internet... and they were never sent...dug deeper and there were a pair available at a local Currys for the same price....So, I check Amazon and then Currys....