I need to find a site that reviews ... - Please read

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I need to find a site that reviews ... - Please read

on post # 14 is what I finally narrowed it down to..




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Hi,

I'm not sure if this should be in "Performance & Maintenance" thread or here or?? maybe the mods can move my post to the correct place or tell me where to post questions like this but my question is:


- I need a site like these that review specifically what I need and I can't find them, So I figured I'd ask the crazy tech experts and tweak madness masters if they know of it..

I need to purchase a portable external hard drive 1-4 TB size but it has to have USB - C connection and on top of that, I need it to be reviewed if possible and for reasons of - after going through a bunch of reviews off of amazon and others, I ran into "runs hot, can overheat, speed wasn't as fast as blah blah etc"

So, are there sites like these below, but specifically I can't find ones that review/compare only usb-c portable external drives etc..

(for example sites that do it correctly)

SSD UserBenchmarks - 1040 Solid State Drives Compared - but how to find only usb-c drives etc?

or sites like :

Compare Phones - PhoneArena - but ofcourse I need to find usb-c portable drives etc.


Hope this makes sense.

Thanks.

Amazon.com








Seagate Backup Plus Ultra Touch 1TB External Hard Drive Portable HDD – Black USB-C USB 3.0, 1 year Mylio Create, 2 Months Adobe CC Photography (STHH1000400)

4.5 out of 5 stars 868














$57.49



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margrave55 said:

Nice. Ask for a review site. Get a product listing.

But it has been rated, 868 times, and 82 questions answered.


Just a note, we are not all in the stated category, "So I figured I'd ask the crazy tech experts and tweak madness masters if they know of it", we are volunteers offering our time and experiences in helping others. Some are relative new on the forum and some go back aways, even are on other forums, some of us have been computing for awhile and some just getting started. Biggest difference has been the technology, back in the '90s it was subscribing to magazines and here we are now. Forums are great for getting help in fixing problems but there's no such forums for all of us who have machines working as they are supposed to.

Bree said:

Try this....

PC Mag | The Best External Hard Drives for 2020

...or this.

The best external hard drive and SSD to buy for 2020: Mac, PC, PS4 and Xbox - CNET


...and as USB-C seems more prevalent on Macs, try this.

Best USB-C Hard Drives for Mac 2020 | iMore

I do not see why usb C is that important as the remote end is standard usb connection. The usb-c is only used for charging port. Easy enough to buy conversion adapters.

Mike Chin and his team at SilentPCReview.com have a pretty useful components review section that includes external drives. You may find some useful information there. Les Tokar's TheSSDReview.com site is probably the best source of information on solid state storage. If you don't find what you need in the articles, there's an active online community around the site that may have answers for your questions.
Personally, I follow the BackBlaze reports on drive reliability when buying big capacity HDDs and stick to NVMe drives in external drive enclosures for most everything else. I've found little difference between USB 3.0 and 3.1 Gen 1 gear, performance-wise, but I haven't really dug into USB 3.1 Gen 2 or Thunderbolt (which is where you'll get the best performance, if your PC or laptop can accommodate same).
HTH,
--Ed--