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20TB WD easystore External USB 3.0 Hard Drive $330
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| Product Name: | WD - easystore 20TB External USB 3.0 Hard Drive - Black |
| Product SKU: | 6500985_6500985 |
| UPC: | 718037896762 |
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Now off to convince myself I don't need either the 18TB (matches last black Friday's price) or this 20 (lowest price ever from BB I think?)
Any long term data on its reliability?
Any long term data on its reliability?
Why wouldn't we? We've been trusting WD for... 20+ years?
Like even if you have two copies in RAID or something and one disk fails, you are now biting your teeth for over twenty four hours hoping the other (sole) disk doesn't fail while you copy over your data to maintain redundancy. The sheer amount of data in a single 20 TB data means it will take over a day to create a backup of a full disk.
I think you are still good to go if you have the 3-2-1 strategy.
The extra work will still suck and you will still need spares handy but you will be ok I think?
Actually regardless of the fact that we has been one of the better companies in this niche, they have had models that did fail and people did complain, every company does.
So this is clearly not a shot at wd but more on the process of backing up time of data into one location.
FYI I've had a raid setup while one failed, 2 were ok still, and while I was waiting on the replacement the second since failed so I lost everything, all 3 wd drives. It happens.
Like even if you have two copies in RAID or something and one disk fails, you are now biting your teeth for over twenty four hours hoping the other (sole) disk doesn't fail while you copy over your data to maintain redundancy. The sheer amount of data in a single 20 TB data means it will take over a day to create a backup of a full disk.
I think you are still good to go if you have the 3-2-1 strategy.
The extra work will still suck and you will still need spares handy but you will be ok I think?
Exactly as I started to the other guy, that's right. It happens. Just making sure this particular drive doesn't have some history of that... In this case of course, no news is great news. I ask here because I know there are many here that are in many more hours of IT work per week and keep up on tech everyday than I do so pretty sure if there's something wrong someone will say something.
I currently have an 8GB almost full and have had it for a few years now and nervous if I should swap it out at least get another drive to back that up.