So I have been thinking about buying a couple of drives for different purposes (seagate hdd for photo backup, a Samsung T7 shield for general storage) and now the only one that’s left is a time machine drive for my 1TB Macbook. So a 2TB drive given the 2x sizing rule.

I’m unsure about which one to buy for this purpose. I’m 80% on getting an SSD for the extra durability. I don’t intend to bring it to many travels with me (I don’t travel all that much with my MB to begin with), so there’s a case for getting an HDD instead.

The primary option is another T7 Shield, the cheapest one (blue) costing 149€ here.

For some cheaper options I have are:

• Corsair EX100U (127€)
• Kioxia Exceria Plus Portable (99€)
• Crucial X6 (102€).

Since speed doesn’t matter all that much, I guess that being the top performer isn’t the primary focus (though it may be useful if I repurpose it at some point), but I do want to get a quality SSD to avoid issues like what I’ve seen regarding the disaster that the Sandisk Extreme Portable (119€ btw) seemed to be.

Any feedback on this? Thanks!