An SSD techy type question

[silverfoxcc]

Having found a working VHS recorder, i am going to transfer all the VHS stuff and Digital 8 onto a hard drive ( extl running off the laptop) The laptop has USB 3.0 ports
Now i am not sure if 1TB will have enough space to accomodate both the 'uncut' footage as well as the amended edited bits, so may go to a 2TB to be on the safe side.
Having a look on the Web there is a UK firm that is doing SSD at what i would call a good price around 60.00 for 2TB which ,if i went into Currys would only get me 1TB

Dropped them a lline and they came back with the answer that the SSD will only work on Linux and Windows 7-10
Now as Win 10 is going thw way of all flesh i havent had a reply to my question, can it work on Win11 on my laptop

So i am throwinmmag this dilemma to the legends that are out there. It seems weird to me to sell stuff that works on obsolete Win systems
Would it be just the SSD they sel,l or is this a well known, (but not to me!!) limitations on Win Operating systems
Any advise gratefully recieved and possibly suppliers who do good deals on dececnt extl SSD Hard drives
TIA

[Condi]

Just get one from one of the big named brands;

Samsung
Seagate
WD

etc.

[bloomen]

It's just a bunch of mindless memory.

Any company that said it wouldn't work on Windows 11 is not one I'd take seriously, and that's well under the cost of a 2TB external SSD from anywhere else unless it's used.

There are hardly any under £95 ish.

Edited by bloomen on Saturday 22 February 02:37

[jeremyc]

And read this cautionary tale first.

[Griffith4ever]

You've been told a load of tosh. They work with whatever you put them in / on them. I use a no-name 2Tb as my secondary gaming drive on my PC with no issues. I use a Samsung as my primary windows drive as its important, and, I wanted the free Samsung image xfer tool.

As above, £100 seems to be the price

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kingston-XS1000-External-...

[White-Noise]

Condi said:

Just get one from one of the big named brands;

Samsung
Seagate
WD

etc.

This.

I bought a WD two terabyte SSD this week and it was about 100.

You could also check how much space you're actually going to need by having a chat with an AI. I've got a lot of home videos to convert and it's going to take nowhere near two terabytes but I am using h264 I decided.

And make sure you have several copies of that data once you have ingested it never mind losing it, it will be a real pain to have to recapture the whole lot again

[Griffith4ever]

White-Noise said:

You could also check how much space you're actually going to need by having a chat with an AI. I've got a lot of home videos to convert and it's going to take nowhere near two terabytes but I am using h264 I decided.

This is very valid. You won't use very much space at all converting VHS/Cine. - a very low res (by todays standards) is all you need. If your computer can handle H265 its a lot less again.

[BlueMR2]

Jasey_ said:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Passport-Portable-Passwor...


2tb WD £68.

The black one has a month delay delivery. Red one available tomorrow.

I'll let you know what it's like tomorrow as you made me order one

Edited by Jasey_ on Saturday 22 February 08:53

That's a HDD, I think the OP was after a SSD.