External Hard Drive or Flash Drive for everyday use?

[Renton577]

So I'm trying to decide between a 512GB flash drive or 1TB external hard drive. It will be moved around thought the day, sometimes while plugged into the system and I'll want to use it for quite a while. The difference in capacity isn't that big of a deal if the flash drive is a better option since it has no moving parts and I'll be moving it a lot. With modern external hard drives though I wasn't sure if it was that big of a deal anymore moving the drive around.

[TrigrH]

It depends on what you are storing on the drive.

 

If you're planning to run full games off the disk you don't want a hard drive.

 

If its for photos and videos a HDD is a good solution. Go for 2TB.

[Bombastinator]

19 minutes ago, Renton577 said:

So I'm trying to decide between a 512GB flash drive or 1TB external hard drive. It will be moved around thought the day, sometimes while plugged into the system and I'll want to use it for quite a while. The difference in capacity isn't that big of a deal if the flash drive is a better option since it has no moving parts and I'll be moving it a lot. With modern external hard drives though I wasn't sure if it was that big of a deal anymore moving the drive around.

SSDs have major advantages when it comes to vibration and they’re a lot lighter.  They wear in different ways though.  Data on a HDD is more archival than a SSD, but that may not matter to you.  Use case might matter for this one.