Looking for an external SSD 2TB or more, any recommendations?

My current external hard drive is dying and I want to replace it with an external SSD as soon as possible. I checked the prices and damn they are so expensive. I need at least 2TB like my current one.

Regardless, does anyone recommend anything for a good price for value, or any website to check in particular?

UPDATE: Ah, nevermind, I'm gonna have to go with a regular external HDD again, SSD are sooo expensive. I'm currently looking at failure rates. Seagate seems to be the worst but Western Digital also doesn't seem that great. Toshiba is the best, perhaps?

 

I've had of the portable Seagate 2 TB hard drives for a while. I toss it in and out of my work/laptop bag pretty regularly, and it's been fine. Get whatever is cheapest and make sure you keep another backup of your data somewhere, be it on a NAS or in the cloud.

 

If you want an external SSD, go with Samsung T3.

However, I'd carefully examine why you need an external SSD. If you're actually installing / running applications off of the external drive, then yes, an SSD makes sense. But if you're only using the external drive to store bulk content (music, videos, movies, pr0n, photos, etc), then you don't need the speed of an SSD. A 4GB MKV Blu-Ray movie rip will play equally well on a super-speedy SSD, or a "slow" 5400rpm mechanical HDD. Speed is irrelevant for external bulk media. The only benefit of an SSD when dealing with external bulk media is faster copy times. And I'd question whether it's worth the extra cost of an SSD, just to get slightly faster copy times of bulk media in the few times per month that you actually copy large amounts of bulk data to/from the drive.

 

Thanks for the advice. Yeah I just ordered a Western Digital 3TB My Passport Ultra Portable External Hard Drive.

I ordered with the fastest (and most expensive) delivery because my current external HDD (also a WD, 2TB) is failing and I am scared of losing all of my data.

I've been trying to do the checkdisk/repair procedure but it doesn't seem to be working.

I thought to try to defrag it to see if anything improves but then I thought what if something goes wrong during the defragmentation process and somehow the data becomes even more corrupted? I don't know, is that possible?

I'm searching for ways to make my computer fix the errors in it, other than the checkdisk program. Any suggestions?

Ahhh I guess I need to create another thread, this is out of topic now, but yeah.