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Newbie looking for external hard drive recs (2TB+)

I read something about once-reliable sites that would tell you the best [tech thing] now not giving legit reviews, being paid to say good things about certain companies, and I do not remember where I read that or which sites, so I figured I’d bypass the issue and ask people here. I’m pretty new to anything near the level of complexity and technical details that I see on datahoarder communities. I know about the 321 backup rule and that’s it. This is me trying to find something to hold copy 3 of my data.

carl_dungeon ,

Redundancy is your best option regardless- that said, when those western digital easy-stores go on sale, I like to grab them for offline storage. Something like rsync every couple of months and you have a decent second copy of your data to keep on a shelf. The $/Gig was hard to beat, I haven’t gotten any in a year or two, but there were sales to get the drives with enclosures for like $130 for 8TB. At the time, that was far less than I was paying for internal NAS drives. Since it’s not a daily driver, you don’t need super high runtime or performance.

Blue_Morpho ,

Backblaze has the best data on hard drive reliability. You’ll need to buy your own USB caddy to put the drive in.

AmbiguousProps ,

Even if you’re not shucking, shucks.top has the current best prices for WD drives.

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