External HDD - USB 2 or 3?

[Deleted User]

I know it's a tricky (maybe impossible) question to answer, so I'm looking more for opinions, than hard and fast answers.

I'm looking to buy an external HDD, around 1TB.

It'll be mostly used for storing camera images (about 2.8MB each), and youtube videos, maximum about 500MB.

Opinions please, on whether I should get a USB 3.0 drive, or would a 2.0 one be fast enough.

Gratis

Life moves on and specifications become more demanding. If you buy a USB2 drive now you will, all too soon, wish you’d bought a USB3 drive.

Put it this way, would you like to be using a USB1 drive now...?

debitcardmayhem

Gratis wrote: »

Life moves on and specifications become more demanding. If you buy a USB2 drive now you will, all too soon, wish you’d bought a USB3 drive.

Put it this way, would you like to be using a USB1 drive now...?

I throw nothing away (except money):cool:

[Deleted User]

Gratis wrote: »

If you buy a USB2 drive now you will, all too soon, wish you’d bought a USB3 drive.

I guess I was wondering if the extra cost would be justified, given what I'd mostly be using it for.

closed

not clear what you are using it for, copying data to it once, and leaving it doesn't need speed.. usb2 is fast enough

there's not much difference in price nowadays, so if you have usb3 ports, you may as well use it.

[Deleted User]

Thanks for that closed.

USB 3.0 it is then.