Recommend External Hard drive Laptop

Irish Gunner

Picked up a Huawei matebook d15 with USB c port for charging.

Looking for external hard drive to store films etc for kids when travelling. Thinking 1tb be more than enough and looking for something portable

Few out there just looking for recommendations

Anyone

Boo_hoo

Recommendation: Do not buy an external drive because: a)Extra device to carry. b)break more often. c)slower speeds

The matebook d15 comes with 2 options for internal storage, a 2.5 inch sata drive and a pcie nvme drive.

I would buy a 1TB ssd like SanDisk SSD PLUS 1 TB Sata III 2.5 Inch Internal SSD, Up to 535 MB/s, Black €96

You will also need to buy a sata connector like this: 2.5inch HDD/SSD Hard drive cable connector for HUAWEI Matebook D15 2020

Or go all out and upgrade your 256GB? pcie ssd with 1TB or 2TB.

Video here of someone installing a 2.5inch drive How to install additional SATA SSD/HDD disk to HUAWEI MateBook D 15 (2020)

Irish Gunner

Boo_hoo wrote: »

Recommendation: Do not buy an external drive because: a)Extra device to carry. b)break more often. c)slower speeds

The matebook d15 comes with 2 options for internal storage, a 2.5 inch sata drive and a pcie nvme drive.

I would buy a 1TB ssd like SanDisk SSD PLUS 1 TB Sata III 2.5 Inch Internal SSD, Up to 535 MB/s, Black €96

You will also need to buy a sata connector like this: 2.5inch HDD/SSD Hard drive cable connector for HUAWEI Matebook D15 2020

Or go all out and upgrade your 256GB? pcie ssd with 1TB or 2TB.

Video here of someone installing a 2.5inch drive How to install additional SATA SSD/HDD disk to HUAWEI MateBook D 15 (2020)

Dont want to go down the route of opening up and adding memory etc but thanks for the suggestions

Its more for movies and nothing personal etc have them stored elsewhere. Have USB stick but looking for something with more memory

JoyPad

Irish Gunner wrote: »

Dont want to go down the route of opening up and adding memory etc but thanks for the suggestions

Its more for movies and nothing personal etc have them stored elsewhere. Have USB stick but looking for something with more memory

If you buy a SATA SSD, like the one suggested above, you can also acquire an adapter or an enclosure, and turn the SSD into an external portable drive.

As long as they are USB 3.0 compatible, the speed of the SATA SSD will not be impaired whatsoever.

Irish Gunner

JoyPad wrote: »

If you buy a SATA SSD, like the one suggested above, you can also acquire an adapter or an enclosure, and turn the SSD into an external portable drive.

As long as they are USB 3.0 compatible, the speed of the SATA SSD will not be impaired whatsoever.

Done this for old PC hard drives got enclosures and worked ok. So this option better than external hard drive?

So USB 3.0 should be ok to work with laptop and possible Desktop?

minitrue

An SSD is better for a few reasons here but then there is the price! The reasons it's better are:
1) shock/vibration resistance so it's far less likely to die from a bump (or just getting used in a vibrating environment like cars/boats/trains/planes).
2) speed, much quicker to copy across media
3) weight which really isn't likely a big deal
4) silence which again likely isn't really an issue

A USB enclosure will work fine for desktop and laptops and is probably going to work out a bunch cheaper than an actual external ssd drive though I spotted https://www.amazon.de/dp/B06X6HJNJR which isn't much of a premium at all and might be worth it for the added protection (and smaller size), though it's not a drive and enclosure so you wouldn't be able to pop the drive out of it if you wanted to use it internally or if the "enclosure" developed problems.

If you aren't going for an SSD then it's probably going to be cheaper just to buy an external drive (unless you have a spare 2.5" sata drive already).

JoyPad

Irish Gunner wrote: »

Done this for old PC hard drives got enclosures and worked ok. So this option better than external hard drive?

So USB 3.0 should be ok to work with laptop and possible Desktop?

There are two things you are after: extra storage and portability.

You can achieve the first thing with either spinning plates (HDD) or memory chips (SSD). The SSD has almost all the advantages over HDD: it's faster, it's quiet, it's more reliable. HDD is cheaper and will likely allow you to write a lot more times than an SSD.

For the portability part, you have two options: a dedicated unit or an adapter of some sort. The dedicated unit has the advantage that it will work as described in terms of speed and durability. The adapter gives you some flexibility, as you could re-use the adapter cable or enclosure with multiple regular drives.

So, you can now conclude that there are 4 (four) ways to get what you need:
- dedicated external HDD
- dedicated external SSD
- adapter + internal HDD
- adapter + internal SSD

I simply recommended you go with number 4 above: get an internal SSD and an adapter/enclosure.

Irish Gunner

JoyPad wrote: »

There are two things you are after: extra storage and portability.

You can achieve the first thing with either spinning plates (HDD) or memory chips (SSD). The SSD has almost all the advantages over HDD: it's faster, it's quiet, it's more reliable. HDD is cheaper and will likely allow you to write a lot more times than an SSD.

For the portability part, you have two options: a dedicated unit or an adapter of some sort. The dedicated unit has the advantage that it will work as described in terms of speed and durability. The adapter gives you some flexibility, as you could re-use the adapter cable or enclosure with multiple regular drives.

So, you can now conclude that there are 4 (four) ways to get what you need:
- dedicated external HDD
- dedicated external SSD
- adapter + internal HDD
- adapter + internal SSD

I simply recommended you go with number 4 above: get an internal SSD and an adapter/enclosure.

Cheers will go with option 4