Getting 500 GB SSD for <$100 is probably not going to happen.  

I personally like the form factor of Western Digital Passport drives as they are USB powered,  USB 3, and small form factor.  I get decent performance out of it, and so long as your backups are incremental, after the initial sync, the future changesets should be fairly small.

-jason

On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 11:37 AM, Brad Fonseca via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
Hello!

I am in the market for a new portable hard drive in order back up my
files on my Linux system (running Mageia 5.1). My requirements are:

- Reliable
- Portable
- Price Under $100
- at least 500 GB in size
- USB-powered (I don't want to have to deal with plugging it in)
- no additional software included (an empty file system without having
to immediately reformat the drive if possible)
- Fast file transfer and retrieval rates (SSD with USB 3.0?)

In addition, I'd like some recommendations regarding good Linux-based
back-up software. I've looked at luckyBackup
(http://luckybackup.sourceforge.net/) based on some articles I've read
but I know this group probably has some well-tested applications they
prefer. Ideally, the application will have good documentation and/or an
easy-to-use interface.

Thanks so much in advance!

Brad

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