Best external storage solution for laptop?

[paulo7702]

My setup at home is my laptop connected to an external monitor, and as such all my games and other files and programs are stored on the laptops SSD. I not only have about 30 gigs of storage left, and was looking for suggestions on a solid external storage solution. Whatever I end up with will just be parked on my desk, so portability isnt really a concern. The main use of the storage drive will be to store my game library and larger programs like photoshop, so I can use the SSD on my laptop for school without worrying about running out of storage. I would like for the experience of launching and playing games from the storage drive to be as similar as possible to launching them from my laptops onboard storage. Im looking for something that about 2 TB, and Id like to spend less than 200 dollars. Any suggestions?

[suedseefrucht]

A external SSD with 2 TB would be too expensive.
So I would go for a HDD, like the WD Elements Portable 2 TB for about 75 USD.

[SorryBella]

Just now, paulo7702 said:

and was looking for suggestions on a solid external storage solution. Whatever I end up with will just be parked on my desk, so portability isnt really a concern.

Well, if youre just going to park it, consider a plugged external drives. If youre not going to put anything actually crucial in this drive like your actual school project and you just want raw storage, you an get WD Elements 10TB for 220$, imo worth while because 20$ off the limits gains you extra 2TB instead of sticking to the 190$, 8TB option.

 

If you do want to care about redundancy, youre going to need to spend 100$ extra for decent capacity. Synology ds220j is there for you on the entry level.

[suedseefrucht]

18 minutes ago, paulo7702 said:

for school

 

9 minutes ago, SorryClaire said:

anything actually crucial

 

If there is a very important school project, I would upload it to dropbox or send it to yourself as an E-Mail. So even if your house burns down, it will be there.

[SorryBella]

1 minute ago, suedseefrucht said:

 

If there is a very important school project, I would upload it to dropbox or send it to yourself as an E-Mail. So even if your house burns down, it will be there.

Ive been in the scenario where basic 15GB drive plan is not enough. But yeah, fair enough.