These hard drives look nice but let me save yall the trouble from using this as “backup storage”. Literally dealing with an older version of this external drive had to send out for data recovery. It never dropped nor received water damage. It just seems to have failed which I believe is on the PCB end of the drive, hoping so to recover it fairly easily. If you use it just do proper backup management on a cloud or something. I mean that’s a given a general better practice anyway. But these things seem to fail eventually so don’t rely on it
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Ah man, I just bought a 8TB WD Elements for $99 and now this comes along!
that is craaaaazy cheap
bought 5, do I need them? no. Do I want them? Damn right.
Better man than me…
Jealous in European.
Yooo thanks for the heads up bro!
Setting up my first NAS (synology). This or recertified Exo for the same price and warranty?
Well, I got an Enterprise one (WUH721818ALE6L4) for US$ 245 shipped.
Cleared out my store's three units.
Pairing this with 8TB SATA SSD for disaster proof backups. After twenty years, getting all my data in one place...
... Well, except the 20TB overflow. That backs up to my $279 20TB's. Which hook into BackBlaze. They had better appreciate the loyalty. The 28TB backups sure cost them a lot.
I'm just glad I don't have more. Then I'd have to set up a NAS and, ugh, I'm just working too hard to enjoy doing that these days.
Only hiccup so far is either my 8TB Samsung 870 QVO died or the enclosure, a whopping 30 minutes in. This is why I backup meticulously in (at least) three separate locales, plus encrypted cloud.
how about stock picks that are about to grow well?
Yes, but can you shuck them and use them? Or have they added the drive encryption to the interface?
And what specific model drives are they? (The HDD, not the easyStore)
--- DS
Some of the 10TB Easystores in my server are getting close to 5 years, so this is a convenient time to upgrade.