expired Posted by captainguy • Oct 27, 2023
Oct 27, 2023 6:38 PM
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expired Posted by captainguy • Oct 27, 2023
Oct 27, 2023 6:38 PM
My Best Buy Plus & Total Members: 18TB WD easystore USB 3.0 External Hard Drive
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Many people who buy these shuck them, taking the drive out to install in a NAS or server.
Regardless, if you do not know what what you would use it for then you do not need it.
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Many people who buy these shuck them, taking the drive out to install in a NAS or server.
Regardless, if you do not know what what you would use it for then you do not need it.
This is solid, in which anyone with the membership can get in on it. The lowest it's been is officially $249 and hit front page.
It isn't a refurbished, recertified, or used drive -- it is a brand new drive from SPD. And it has a longer warranty than this external drive too.
Turns out my phone ad-blocker is mangling that product page, my apologies.
I'd be tempted to go this route if I needed a drive. These WD helioseal drives (based on Hitachi designs I think) have always treated me well - cool, quiet, quick.
TL;DR - You're right, this is indeed a new drive
Many people who buy these shuck them, taking the drive out to install in a NAS or server.
Regardless, if you do not know what what you would use it for then you do not need it.
And personally, I'd rather have a few drives that are large than a slew of smaller drives eating up power and making heat and noise while taking up space.
With things like OMV, unRaid, TrueNAS, and even Drivepool+Snapraid, it's not hard to cobble together a backup system that doesn't rely on something like RAID-5, so give me the biggest size drive for the money please.
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I see it now. Must've missed my alert. Smokin' deal.
This is solid, in which anyone with the membership can get in on it. The lowest it's been is officially $249 and hit front page.
Because they have many TBs of data.
Video takes up huge amounts of space and 18TB drives are my new capacity floor. Any smaller and I'm out of space in under a 12-18 months.
I just bought some 20TB drives, but I really wanted the 18s so I may get these IF I CAN... With BB, that a BIG IF...
It's kind of a steep penalty, but.....
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Usually $15/tb is considered slick.. This is about $11/tb.
And personally, I'd rather have a few drives that are large than a slew of smaller drives eating up power and making heat and noise while taking up space.
With things like OMV, unRaid, TrueNAS, and even Drivepool+Snapraid, it's not hard to cobble together a backup system that doesn't rely on something like RAID-5, so give me the biggest size drive for the money please.
The issue is when you have a single drive that you're backing up all your data onto. It's better than not having a backup at all, but your backup now has a single point of failure: your one and only backup drive. Again, better than no backup drive, but not nearly as good as mirroring the backups across two drives, so that in case one fails you still have a backup of all your data. Ideally you'd also have an off-site backup, in case something happens to your local backup drives (fire, flood, theft, tornado, etc).
But you're right that the size of the drive isn't the issue, the issue is that a single large backup drive for all your data isn't as safe as two large backup drives.
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