WalterB

Thanks for your reply. It is certainly a good solution, a little expensive, it seems. As I’m listening to ITunes recordings, I wonder if I could also save the music tracks on this SSD to back them up.

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    Freimmientis36

    An SSD for backups is actually “throwing pearls before swine”, i.e. simply unnecessarily too expensive.

    It can be done, but a normal external USB hard disc is much cheaper and certainly more suitable for a pure backup.

    Z. For example a WD Elements Portable which is available from 1 to 6 TB.
    Here is an example with 2 TB:
    https://www.digitec.ch/de/s1/product/wd-elements-portable-2-tb-externe-festplatte-448766

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      Freimmientis36

      By the way, if you don’t have large video libraries for backup, the external storage can also be significantly smaller.

      Here’s another super-small USB stick that I often use myself.
      It is available up to 1000 GB, here is the 256 GB version, which is actually already sufficient for most “normal users”:
      https://www.digitec.ch/de/s1/product/sandisk-ultra-dual-drive-go-256-gb-usb-a-usb-c-usb-stick-12453049

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        You can look up your real memory requirements yourself, then you will also know your actual target requirements.

        By the way, a normal average photo has a memory size of about 3 MB.
        14,000 photos of 3 MB each would result in approximately 42 GB.
        Even if you only had extremely high-resolution JPEGs with, for example, 9 MB on average, there would still be more than 100% reserve storage space on the 256 GB stick with around 14,000 photos.

        Incidentally, I currently have around 35,000 photos myself, which require a total of around 65 GB of memory.

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          WalterB

          Sure it’s slower, but just to make a backup of “a few” Fötelis it doesn’t really matter how fast it is.

          Just run it once and then add new photos incrementally with a backup programme (such as “Personal Backup”).

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