Storage Portable SSD

Afternoon folks.

Looking for some portable storage. 2.5" sata SSD is probably enough rather than something smaller.

500GB ish.

What are your recommendations? Caddy and disk? Something off the shelf?

USB 3 or USB C?

 

I use caddy and disc, I had some spare m2 ssd and use this

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07KBT19PT/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

I've put old 128GB SSD into a £4 aliexpress USB 3 caddy. Works a treat.

I've also got 1TB NVMe drive in a £13 NVMe USB C 10Gbps caddy. Works as advertised with provided short cables.

I'd find SSD deals, then buy any odd caddy to go with it. I don't see any reason to buy off-the-shelf portable disks, when buying separately gives flexibility, and caddy's are cheap.

 

I use and AmazonBasics caddies with SSDs. They support TRIM which some other caddies do not.

 

Fair point I had forgotten that little nugget.

 

Same here, I’ll need to go back and check whether TRIM are active.

 

Thanks all I need a TRIM capable enclosure and a reasonably priced SATA SSD.

 

I just checked and both of my drives in portable enclosure supports TRIM.
For Windows, see last post: https://www.tenforums.com/performan...lize-usb-3-0-connected-drive-ssd-not-hdd.html
For Raspbian, see here: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/enabling-trim-on-external-ssd-on-raspberry-pi

For SSD, see here:
https://www.hotukdeals.com/search?q=ssd
Currently WD Green 500GB can be had for £44.37.

For enclosure, they are cheap, I think nowadays you'd need to be very unlucky to get one that doesn't suppor TRIM.
FWIW, my 2.5 enclosure is this one, the cheapest white one: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4001145145258.html

 

I ended up going for the 1TB Green. £81.xx just a bit cheaper per byte.

Thank you