That's good to know. I almost thought of buying a couple (I always back up with pairs) to replace a couple of aging spinning disk portables.
Guess I will wait.
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This is one of the reasons why I prefer having a few smaller drives than one big one. Having a zillion terabytes of storage one one drive is great and all, but that's a lot of stuff to potentially lose when something craps out. I'd sooner have a couple smaller ones so that if one hdd does shit the bed..err case? at least not everything's gone.
My only big drive is just for games. I have two internal 1t drives one hdd and one SSD for storage on my computer and four external 512g drives as backup to those. It's not the best solution, and it's kind of clunky but I'd rather have something than lose everything to a bad drive.
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Data being lost on a drive isn't a reason not to purchase. If it were then we would never buy any drives.
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SSDs are nice and fast but if the data table goes bad, you have lost everything. At least with a HDD you can still pull files off if filesystem table goes bad. Also unplugged SSD in a hot location will lose data quite readily. Always keep them powered to keep the bits.
(Extremely drunk)
I don't remember any more.
(Fishes out a SanDisk Extreme SD 128GB card from the box)
Was this the one? I think this was the one.
The one that fucking failed.
...fuck. I had more money than sense a few years ago.
It was too eXtreme!!!
What is a good portable HDD to get these days?
Or should I just get one of those little usb m2 cases.
Just get a portable m.2 case.
WD's element lineup is pretty good for external hdd's. Though you'd be better of buying an internal hdd and putting it in an enclosure instead, cheaper and also likely faster as all the external hdd's are usually 5400 rpm only.
Cheaper? Internal HDDs have been more expensive than USB ones for the last decade or so. Which is why Hard Drive shucking (i.e. ripping the HDD out of the USB enclosure for internal/NAS use) is such a common sport.
Really? At least in the uk it's always been the exact opposite, if you look up "4tb hdd" on amazon for example you get results from £70, whereas "4tb external hdd" returns £90+ listings..
And the truism holds. If you only have one backup. you don't have backups.