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expireditsamazeling | Staff posted Jun 22, 2022 06:49 PM
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expireditsamazeling | Staff posted Jun 22, 2022 06:49 PM
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I purchased it knowing fully well that these were SMR drives, but I did not expect 1 MB/sec both read/write speeds. This was transferring and reading large media files.
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As an example, the 5TB portable drive drops to $60 and the 8TB Desktop drive drops to $95 when bought in quantity.
Any suggestions on what would be a good alternative to this? Big space, lower price that won't lose my files?
I can't spent too much because our household income is literally $0 and has been since he passed months ago. But I do need to be able to use my laptop and want to keep those files safe and not accidentally buy a Chinese knockoff or something that will break somehow. I usually buy from Amazon (never used eBay before),
Sorry, that was long! I've been finding out I talk a lot in this stage of grief (whatever it is these days). I'm like a crazy crack head these days with how much I talk/text (when not isolating).
. ..,,Anyway, I apologize and truly appreciate any suggestions you, or anyone willing to read all of this may have for me.
Thank you!
I started using them after I lost several terabytes of photos / videos I had (luckily not the entire collection). Anyway, I use an internal dedicated drive for local backup and also Backblaze for online backup.
Any suggestions on what would be a good alternative to this? Big space, lower price that won't lose my files?
I can't spent too much because our household income is literally $0 and has been since he passed months ago. But I do need to be able to use my laptop and want to keep those files safe and not accidentally buy a Chinese knockoff or something that will break somehow. I usually buy from Amazon (never used eBay before),
Sorry, that was long! I've been finding out I talk a lot in this stage of grief (whatever it is these days). I'm like a crazy crack head these days with how much I talk/text (when not isolating).
. ..,,Anyway, I apologize and truly appreciate any suggestions you, or anyone willing to read all of this may have for me.
Thank you!
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For the portables, I don't get why anyone would care that they're SMR. They're not shuckable anyways (drive PCB is USB), so for external use, who cares. Not like you're going to RAID/ZFS external USB drives... or god I hope nobody would do that.
As far as used drive reliability goes, again, who cares? If one drive loss = data loss, then you clearly didn't care very much about your data in the first place.
Set up drive redundancies and make good backups. RAID is not a backup.
If you follow best practices, then it really shouldn't matter to you if a used drive might (hypothetically) have 1-2% increased annual failure rate.
And then you get to buy cheap drives like these at 1/2 the price of new ones. And you can trust that your data is actually safe, instead of praying that your one copy of life-changing data will be safe on your brand new expensive SuperReliable(TM) drive.
I got the 4TB model when it was $46. It's worked fine for me with no problems.
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Any suggestions on what would be a good alternative to this? Big space, lower price that won't lose my files?
I can't spent too much because our household income is literally $0 and has been since he passed months ago. But I do need to be able to use my laptop and want to keep those files safe and not accidentally buy a Chinese knockoff or something that will break somehow. I usually buy from Amazon (never used eBay before),
Sorry, that was long! I've been finding out I talk a lot in this stage of grief (whatever it is these days). I'm like a crazy crack head these days with how much I talk/text (when not isolating).
. ..,,Anyway, I apologize and truly appreciate any suggestions you, or anyone willing to read all of this may have for me.
Thank you!
Spend the time and money on getting yourself back with more training n money management
For the portables, I don't get why anyone would care that they're SMR. They're not shuckable anyways (drive PCB is USB), so for external use, who cares. Not like you're going to RAID/ZFS external USB drives... or god I hope nobody would do that.
As far as used drive reliability goes, again, who cares? If one drive loss = data loss, then you clearly didn't care very much about your data in the first place.
Set up drive redundancies and make good backups. RAID is not a backup.
If you follow best practices, then it really shouldn't matter to you if a used drive might (hypothetically) have 1-2% increased annual failure rate.
And then you get to buy cheap drives like these at 1/2 the price of new ones. And you can trust that your data is actually safe, instead of praying that your one copy of life-changing data will be safe on your brand new expensive SuperReliable(TM) drive.
ALL drives are meant to fail. even for SSD, SDcards if you run them long enough.
I love these cheap WD drives combine with free n cheap Google storage. They ran great in cold and hot storage with sample size of 15. I Rather have 4 $50 drives than 1 $200. Still way cheaper than spend thousands on data recovery
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