I own a 13 inch macbook pro retina 128gb. I want to buy an external hard drive. I want to put movies, photos, and just personal stuff on it. And use the computer itself for school. I don't know what the difference between an external hard drive and an SSD is. It must be huge because a 1TB costs $60 and 500 SSD costs like $300. Whats the difference? And how do both work? Lets say I have a movie on the external hard drive. I plug the drive into my computer. Can I just watch it from there? Or do I have to copy it into my computer and then watch it, and when done copy it back to the external drive? Lets say im on a road trip. I take out my computer and external drive, and I want to pick from my library of movies on my external drive. Can I just plug in and watch, or do I have to copy it? I know absolutely nothing of external drives or SSD. Im a full time student, not some crazy engineer, or video editor. I own a gopro. Yes I would like to keep my gopro videos on the external drive. I would mostly have movies, photos, and music on their.
any suggetions on external hard drives?
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