Need a 2.5 inch HDD or SSD

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This is for my Eufy S380 Home Base. It only comes with 16GB of storage and it is not enough for continous recording for my Floodlight Camera E30. Presently, it only does Event records.

Came across this SanDisk on Amazon.ca. Has good reviews. Keep in mind things are more expensive in Canada. Should I buy it?
https://www.amazon.ca/SanDisk-SSD-P...5135d094436f87409acff4&qid=1769542388&sr=8-10



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SanDisk is a name brand and they make fine products. A consumer grade SSD is not ideal for continuous writes though. I'd look on eBay for a used enterprise grade SSD. They're about the same as that new one you listed. Plenty of options from Intel, Micron, Samsung, etc.

Check the SMART data using something like Crystaldiskinfo when you get it to make sure it has plenty of life left.

Another option is not using an SSD - looks like a used 1TB hard drive is about $20-30 on eBay. I'd spend the extra money for an SSD but for this application you don't need performance.
 
For security recordings, you don’t really want an SSD. Random I/O times don’t matter for an application like that. Longevity does. Look for something rated for security, continuous read/writes etc. Examples are Seagate Skyhawk, and Western Digital Purple.
 
Is SSD really necessary? I definitely agree with getting something like a NAS drive or a camera drive as it will last longer due to the continuous writing.
 
Get a HDD.
Klutch9 said:
For security recordings, you don’t really want an SSD. Random I/O times don’t matter for an application like that. Longevity does. Look for something rated for security, continuous read/writes etc. Examples are Seagate Skyhawk, and Western Digital Purple.
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do they make those in 2.5"?
 
yes the toshiba is fine and still better than the SSD.

how many cameras are being hooked up? you might also consider or 2TB or 4TB drive if its more than 1 or 2 cams.
 
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Which cameras? are they 1440p, 4k? or what MP (megapixel)

I have 3, 4k cameras and 4TB lasts about 16 days using advanced compression (AV1)

So if you have (2) 4k cameras I'd expect 5-6 days on a 1TB hdd.
 
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E30 Floodlight Camera 2K HD
S340 SoloCam 3K
These two are the ones I have now. No plans on adding any more.

After the 1 TB memory is used up, I expect it overwrites the old recording. Five days of recording is adequate for me.
 
George7941 said:
This is for my Eufy S380 Home Base. It only comes with 16GB of storage and it is not enough for continous recording for my Floodlight Camera E30. Presently, it only does Event records.

Came across this SanDisk on Amazon.ca. Has good reviews. Keep in mind things are more expensive in Canada. Should I buy it?
https://www.amazon.ca/SanDisk-SSD-P...5135d094436f87409acff4&qid=1769542388&sr=8-10
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Shows price as $271. Would be a hard no for me. Spinners can be had for much less as mentioned.
 
Danno said:
Shows price as $271. Would be a hard no for me. Spinners can be had for much less as mentioned.
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The price has taken a tremendous jump up. I am in Ontario, Canada, just like you are, and this afternoon, the price was $99.98. Price has almost tripled from this afternoon.
 
dogememe said:
SanDisk is a name brand and they make fine products. A consumer grade SSD is not ideal for continuous writes though. I'd look on eBay for a used enterprise grade SSD. They're about the same as that new one you listed. Plenty of options from Intel, Micron, Samsung, etc.

Check the SMART data using something like Crystaldiskinfo when you get it to make sure it has plenty of life left.

Another option is not using an SSD - looks like a used 1TB hard drive is about $20-30 on eBay. I'd spend the extra money for an SSD but for this application you don't need performance.
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Consumer grade has generally gone to tri-level or even quad-level NAND cells to make them cheaper. It’s not considered a limitation considering how most users use something like a laptop computer. They will be partitioned into some areas that use single-level cells as a cache (in addition to any RAM cache) but you’re right that something like continuously saved video is just about writing large chunks of data all the time, and that’s going to go through cycles. That’s going to end up in the main storage section 100% of the time.

And I’ve personally had a consumer grade SSD fail. It was a WD Blue 1 TB from 2019. I had a backup and replaced it with the newer version (WD Blue SA510). But in this application there’s probably no means to back up other than ripping it out and manually cloning it. I’m wondering why they didn’t have an option for USB external storage. Maybe an SD card. That would actually be cheaper than a SATA interface and caddy.
 
Prices on all storage are going up. Chip memory makes-Micron, Samsung and SK Hynix-are shifting production to high bandwidth memory for AI chips. Disc makers are shifting production to high capacity (>20TB) disk drives. Micron has ceased production of its consumer brand Crucial.
 
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