❓ I'll review the characteristics of external drives and include a couple of specific recommendations. What external drive to get Begin by selecting an external drive that is sufficiently large to hold your backup images — I recommend three times your disk space used, at a minimum, though larger is always better. Make sure the interface is USB3 or better. SSDs are not worth the expense to be used as external drives, though they otherwise could be. Opinions, and quality, change often, so make sure to pay attention to the dates of any specific recommendations you might find. Updates, related links, and more discussion: 🔔 Subscribe to the Ask Leo! YouTube channel for more tech videos & answers: ✅ Watch next ▶How to Use Old HDDs as External Drives ▶ Chapters 0:00 What External Drive Should I Get? 0:21 External drive capacity 2:14 External drive technology 2:24 USB3 3:06 SSD 4:44 Power 5:28 Physical size and rotation speed 7:57 Specifics: what external drive to get 10: 56 Opinions are easy to come by ❤️ My best articles: ❤️ My Most Important Article: More Ask Leo! ☑️ to get your questions answered ☑️ to subscribe to the Confident Computing newsletter. ☑️ to help support Ask Leo! ☑️ for even more! #askleo #external #drive