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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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SSD vs. USB (alien.top)

submitted 2 years ago by Meechiemon76@alien.top to c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum

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Hi everyone. Figured this would be the best place for this seemingly simple question. I have a home arcade and I was wondering where best to store my ROMs? I find myself constantly trying new OS’s and don’t mind spending a weekend going all in, but eventually I will find exactly what I want and will settle. So my question is, in terms of just ROM storage, does it matter between an SSD or a USB?

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[–] plunki@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

External SSD is way better than USB key. I just got a Samsung T7 and compared to name brand keys it is far superior. Both the controller and the chips are better quality. The speed is consistently fast compared with keys that always seem to slow down / hang / fluctuate on big transfers. I don't know what the actual stats hare but have heard SSD just has higher IOPS