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Read speeds would sustain at the peak, write speeds drop after the cache gets filled up.

I have that small, cute one from SanDisk , 1 TB. But the transfer speed is mostly 54 - 60 MBPs when I tried last week. It starts with...

USB 3.0 is 5 Gbps, which is pretty much the limit of SATA SSDs anyway (6 Gbps is not that much farther than 5). Realistically, I have...

You are fine either way if you're just planning to use it for basic browsing and stuff. Though USB 3.1 or USB 3.2 would have made great...

No games, simply Firefox, Bing, Edge etc. To be honest I do not know whether I have a 3.0 or 3.2 port. My laptop is 2 years old. I am...

though you won't be getting the full advertised speeds on the ssd if you aren't using a USB 3.2 Gen 2 port. It will work though for...

Thanks. I was worried about the fact that it is working through USB 3.0. Maybe not fast enough and all that.

No issue with it. External drives are also the same SSDs.

Is it going to be harmful if we use a portable SSD as a regular drive? For example, add a .vdi file to it related to VirtualBox and run...

Don’t take surveillance disk. Take normal desktop hdd only.

If you want 3.5 hdd then wd blue(cheaper but slower). If you want 2.5 sata ssd then wd green(little expensive but faster than hdd)...

Thanks all. Hopefully, I can get a good deal on a 1 TB HDD. Anything I should be worried about? I see the WD blue, green etc types are...

This got me intrigued. Closest to this I could find is the motherboard being limited to legacy BIOS which only supports MBR...

There is no such thing

I am ok with buying a 1 TB Seagate or WD HDD. I was not sure whether it will work as a replacement for my current 500GB HDD ( working )...