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the first commercially available consumer ssd hit megabytes of data and sold for $1,000 tech connection by marc saltzman ou are likely aware of the joni mitchell lyric "you don't know what you've got till it's gone.” this phrase is certainly true of all your irreplaceable photos and bookmarks and such the unexpected could happen to regular basis external drives that plug into your pc or mac are a great idea for safeguard- for extending your computer's storage and ideal for transferring files from one device to another thanks for the memory when backing up your drives are the way to go sandisk sevag sagherian why ssd? along with the amount of storage similar to the "flash" memory inside microchip that offers several benefits over a hard drive files to the external ssd or accessing ssd does not have any moving parts as opposed to the spinning magnetic platters inside a hard drive and because there are no moving doesn't require as much power to operate which translates to much better battery life on a laptop ssds have another major benefit is important if you carry the external withstand the bumps and knocks of life on the go programs and files your device can can store twice as much data as a 256 gb can hold twice as much as a 512 gb drive you get the idea little more storage than you think you'll marc saltzman is a leading high-tech reporter and author he's on twitter @marc_saltzman saltzman will answer selected questions in that unpublished questions cannot be answered individually email connection acostco.com please include "tech connection" in the subject line costco connection in the cloud the sandisk 1 tb is available in all warehouses and at costco.ca to further safeguard your take advantage of free cloud services-for ex- google drive or drop- box-as they have some advantages while you may get only 5 or so gigabytes store your files elsewhere any device connected to the world.-ms