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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by andioop to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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

Edit: see @[email protected]'s reply below, apparently shucks.top is gone.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Actually, read the notice at the top - looks like Amazon didn’t like it and shut down the api token. It suggests going to diskprices.com.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

oh.. 😐 thank you for the heads up