External Drives at Everyday Home Living
External drives provide reliable, portable storage for backups, file archiving, large media libraries, and carrying work files between locations. At Everyday Home Living, we stock external portable SSDs from Verbatim for Australian homes, businesses, and creative professionals, with fast delivery nationwide.
Portable SSDs
Portable SSDs (Solid State Drives) use flash memory with no moving parts, delivering fast data transfer speeds, durable shock resistance, and a compact lightweight form factor that hard disk drives cannot match. The Verbatim Pocket SSD range connects via USB 3.2 Gen 2 for sequential read and write speeds of up to 1,000 MB/s, making it suited to professionals who work with large files including RAW photo libraries, video footage, CAD files, and virtual machine images. Available in 1TB and 2TB capacities, the Verbatim Pocket SSD is small enough to fit on a keyring while providing ample high-speed storage for demanding workflows.
External Drives for Backup
External drives are one of the most straightforward ways for Australian households and businesses to implement an offsite or local backup strategy for their important data. Storing a regular backup of your computer on an external drive and keeping it disconnected from the computer when not backing up protects against data loss from ransomware, accidental deletion, and hardware failure. For comprehensive data protection, a three-two-one backup strategy is recommended: three copies of data, on two different storage types, with one stored offsite.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between an external SSD and an external hard drive?
An external SSD uses flash memory chips with no moving parts, which gives it much faster data transfer speeds, greater shock and drop resistance, a significantly smaller and lighter form factor, and lower power consumption than a traditional external hard disk drive. External SSDs are the better choice for professionals who work with large files frequently and need fast transfer speeds, and for anyone who carries their drive regularly and needs durability. External hard disk drives typically offer more storage capacity per dollar, which makes them a good choice for bulk archiving and backup where transfer speed and portability are less important than raw capacity and cost.
