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External storage
Sebastian Fisher
Camden Wright
lol i forgot to post the actual question
I have about 4TB of storage filled up on different drives including my boot drive. Should I go with 6TB or just bite the bullet and go with 8TB?
also, Seagate or WD? had a WD external for over 5 years strong now but also had a WD internal die on me after 5 months so im conflicted. Never used seagate really
Hudson Hughes
Whatever you do, have a backup (e.g. if all your data can fit on an 8TB external drive, buy another 8TB external drive and keep the same data on that one aswell, in case one of your drive kills itself)
Zachary Cooper
WD is better but wait for sales.
Fun fact - External drives are the drives that failed quality control.
Adrian Moore
Seagate is garbage, go with WD
Aiden Perez
8TB, and Seagate is shit.
Also, don't rely on a single external drive. Follow the 3-2-1 backup rule for irreplaceable data.
Bentley Clark
This.
I still have an old 4TB drive that died. 8 years ago. I still plug it in from time to time to see if it magically undies. Lost some unique files. The arm motor or something went, so the data is still there, but data recovery services are prohibitively expensive for some old porn and university essays.
David Mitchell
thanks for the replies, WD seems to be the unanimous winner. I used to be able to fit everything i needed to have backed up on my 1TB WD external, but I added more and more storage and it became extra storage too so now i basically have no backup. I also lost an internal drive a couple years ago that wasnt backed up and lost some unique files too which sucked, so I really need to buy asap. I also still plug it in sometimes, even called a HDD repair place to get a quote on getting the data back but ultimately not worth it. Think I'll get the 6TB WD external so I can get another 6 a bit later for double backup, especially when I get more serious about my work.
Connor Sanders
You got to ask yourself is all of your data worth backing up? Movies and games are pretty big files and you can always redownload them. For games all you need to backup is the save files. In general I only backup my photos, documents, projects and presentations and also music because that would be too tedious to redownload one song at a time.
Jordan Thompson
you make a good point and it was something i've heavily considered vs. buying more internal storage. Want to do both but limited funds right now. I would say I have at least a good 2TB of things i would like to have backed up because i dont know if i could find or redownload it again, especially with the recent death of most public trackers like TPB and Kats. however in the future i'll need to make more backups. probably gonna get a 4tb ext and 1tb internal
Lucas Nguyen
Stop watching porn. They are degenerated and not worth backing up at all.
Carter Davis
I'd go with 2TB WD Passports. I own three of them along with a 1TB one. The 1TB was my first which is about five years old now and the newest of my 2TB's is about two years old. Never had a problem with any of them. I'm stick to buying like I have, though, rather than sticking all of your eggs in one basket. The largest external I own is a 3TB Toshiba that I bought around January or so and I don't think I'd go with a larger external than that.
Michael Mitchell
>everyone shitting on segate
>everyone praising WD
>only hdds I have that failed are wd (and I have 2x as much of segate hdds
is this some psyop to make sure segates are less bought and thus goes on sale more often?
Gavin Russell
because seagate has a higher failure rate than wd. this doesn't mean it happens to everyone on every single drive, most of those failures happen in professional environments where hardware is being stressed.
Henry Morris
>my anecdotal experience means that the anecdotal experience of every else is somehow a psyops
Parker Powell
My internal WD 1TB HDD survived a lightning strike. Its newer Seagate 2 TB HDD neighbour however, died.
Jacob Anderson
Build/buy a NAS. Don't need to fully populate it at first, grow into it and add storage as you need it. Stop screwing around with external USB drives if you're serious about shit.
Henry Sanders
My Seagate 4 tb drive survived a tornado.
Michael Reed
Here's an advice to everyone : Avoid Buffalo NASs at all cost.
Awful and unreliable hardware bundled with even more awful and unreliable software. They're the worst Japanese products ever.
As for HDD, nothing can top HGST in terms of durability with their cooling technology.
Xavier Myers
>I have more segate drives than wd ones
>wd ones have higher failure rate for me
>everyone else says seagate fails more often
>you just got lucky
Math doesn't add up
>it is only when drives are stressed
Mine are stressed enough. Math doesn't add up
>anecdotal vs anecdotal broooo... No psy op brooo.
oh fuck off. All of statistics is 'anecdotal' by that logic.
Andrew Smith
Anecdotal means that it's based off of actual research, broooooo. Not everything is a psy op, brooooooo. There isn't a Jew in your closet out to get you over everything, broooooo.
>>you just got lucky
Maybe that literally is just the case. I own several WD's (five, I think [I know four for sure, one might be a LaCie one)) that have never failed while both Seagate's failed in less than two years. I must be trying to trick you though.