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Plugged into the wall is NOT considered “Portable”
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Some Walmarts still have 8tb WD Black external drives for $108 if you're looking for a new drive.
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Let's agree that drive runs hotter fail a lot faster than drive cooler. This is for storage. I don't think you want it to fail say in 3 years.
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I don’t think 12GB hard drives have been a thing since the 90s.
Drives don’t fail simply due to heat.
Every drive should be evaluated against its design spec to see if it’s “too hot”.
Hard...
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Did the *drive* die or did the *enclosure* die?
The enclosures, SATA -> USB controller, or something else in these (portable and desktop) fail with frightening frequency.
If you have anything...
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Need to get 12GB or higher. Anything lower will be a lot hotter as they are not using helium.
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Where? External 8TB WD My Book drives are $174 on Amazon.
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Saving 12 bucks for a refurbished one is not a good idea..especially storage...unless u have redundancies or dont care if u lose data..
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I don't think this is a deal....one can get new ones at the same price...14 bucks a TB for a new is what one can look at..
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I have one of these and it has this "feature" called preemptive wear leveling. It vibrates every 5 seconds or so...
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Whats "white labels"?
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If you’re going refurb for important data, it better be a backup of a backup.
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These are SMR, not CMR. 10TB and up is CMR.
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As I understand, the drives inside are white labels so not much of a deal IMHO
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Extremely tempting to replace my current external failing drive for ps5
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That's a bummer for sure! Out of curiosity, was it one of the thin/portable (USB Only, no power) drives, or one of these larger AC + USB drives?
I've had a few of the USB Powered ones die on me,...
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I have purchased a 4gb WD refrub by WD from ebay in the past and it died after a year. It was only used to store xbox games which I played rarely.
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This is a desktop drive not a portable one
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Western Digital via eBay has 8TB Western Digital My Book External Portable Hard Drive (Certified Refurbished, RWDBBGB0080HBK-NESN) on sale for $99.99. Shipping is free.