[conspire] external storage recommendation

[Deirdre Saoirse Moen]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2021, at 9:52 AM, paulz at ieee.org wrote:
> A couple years ago, when I last bought a laptop, I thought .5 TB SSD was huge.
>
> Now I have returned from a trip with a camera has a .5 TB memory card.  
>  I didn't fill the card, but the photos will exceed the remaining space 
> on the laptop.  
>
> Obviously I need an external drive of some sort.  

FWIW, there are now smart drive enclosures that will read directly from SD cards: https://photography-tricks.org/best-portable-external-hard-drives-with-sd-card-reader/

Some of them are even low-effort RAID (high-end consumer grade), e.g., La Cie's (aka Seagate, fwiw) latest 2big offerings: https://www.lacie.com/products/big/2big/

Deirdre