Recent content by degarb

But, if it were flash (it is 2.5 inch) is this the right price, and is flash ok for a backup? My intentions with the drive was to backup my data, probably 600 ish gigs, encypt it, then get it out of the house for the event of fire, maybe keep at parents house or maybe bury in the back yard or...

It was an ETIGER 3.0 (supposedly, ssd, but I am thinking the new standard is to call flash drives ssd) 2 tb sold through Walmart.com for $56, by WEST COAST MANUFACTURE AND DESIGN, INC. I no longer can find it on Walmart. I already gave it a horrible review last week, so maybe they took it...

I bought an external ssd, 2 TB, which comes with several warning to only use exFAT, and will be flakey if we use NTFS or FAT32. But it was already formatted exFAT, so I just jumped into the backup. It was slow, (4 mbs) but after 3 days it looked like I managed to backup 500 gigs, until a few...