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I am planning on getting a new external drive, and was considering the new SSDs over HDDs. Write performance for many small files is of highest priority for my use, even over storage capacity. I was planning on buying an external enclosure and the SSD separately, since it seems to me that you can select from the best SSDs this way.

  • Are SSDs generally more reliable for many small writes? Seems like I'm always running CHKDSK on my external Seagate HDD.
  • How would you select, or could you recommend, some good SSD enclosures?
  • Is it worth buying a SATA 3 SSD (6 GBit/s) even when considering USB 3.0 is 5 GBit/s? Or is buying a SATA 2 SSD currently a better value? Assuming SATA 3 enclosures are available.
  • Will a given HDD enclosure typically work for a SSD of the same SATA interface? Or does the enclosure need to explicitly support SSDs?
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You're asking too many questions at once. It would be better to split them up. Question 1 might have a duplicate here, but the rest seems to be valid. – slhck♦ Sep 13 '11 at 7:41
@slhck thanks for the suggestion, where might I find the answer to question 1? – T. Webster Sep 13 '11 at 12:47
I don't know specifically but we have plenty of SSD related questions. If you can't find one, it's not that big of a problem to just ask :) – slhck♦ Sep 13 '11 at 12:53
It would also help any new questions if you could specify the interfaces and their speeds that you intend to connect the external drive to, e.g does the device you will connect to provide support for external SATA, USB3, ...? – mas Sep 13 '11 at 13:51
@slhck new question here superuser.com/questions/335283/… – T. Webster Sep 14 '11 at 2:49
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closed as not a real question by techie007, slhck♦, Nifle, random♦ Sep 17 '11 at 1:47

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