TECH Need an external hard drive

[BigT]

I’m looking at external hard drives to preserve my dandelion picture collection. Looking at 1-2Tb, do I really need solid state? Or will the generic 60 dollar seagate work fine?

 

[Ballast]

Just got a Samsung T7 Touch (on sale it was cheaper than the non-touch) in 2TB. Thing is super fast.

 

[CUCUY]

I have a 4TB Western Digital for my PS4......

Waiting for a 10TB SSD for my PS5

 

[D3aC0n]

No, you don't need solid state for dandelion pictures.

Just don't rely on a single drive as a back up

 

[Jumpem]

You don't need an SSD for data. Get a couple of HDD and copy the same files to both. Consider a cloud backup as well.

 

[spark plugs.]

if your dandelion pictures are really that important, back them up to the cloud.

otherwise...get any network attached HDD like the western digital mycloud

 

[Twinsen]

A $20 old seagate HDD would be sufficient for this.

 

[{hydro}]

I got this one

 

[herpes]

if your dandelion pictures are really that important, back them up to the cloud.

otherwise...get any network attached HDD like the western digital mycloud

Lol don't do this. Those are garbage.

 

[herpes]

If you don't need a portable drive just buy a WD internal drive and a backblaze subscription.

If you need a portable drive costco usually has some nice WD drives. You have to be careful because some of them are slow as dog shit.

 

[spark plugs.]

Lol don't do this. Those are garbage.

Works just fine for me

 

[herpes]

Works just fine for me

That's great and I'm happy for you. But they are overpriced.

You can grab the normal easystores from bb or their elements from wd.com for way cheaper.

 

[TomDlgns]

I’m looking at external hard drives to preserve my dandelion picture collection. Looking at 1-2Tb, do I really need solid state? Or will the generic 60 dollar seagate work fine?

1- buy any hard drive and plug it into your computer
2- sign up for a yearly plan and install backblaze on your computer
2a- add your own encryption key to backblaze (a passphrase) if you want an extra layer of security
3- add all your pictures to the hard drive
4- confirm that your external drive is backing up to backblaze (usually this is automatic)

 

[spark plugs.]

That's great and I'm happy for you. But they are overpriced.

You can grab the normal easystores from bb or their elements from wd.com for way cheaper.

I guess

 

[Chuck Finley]

Use a cloud backup provider if you actually care about these photos.

 

[Public Enemy Rated R]

 

[Epik High]

View attachment 90447

this is interesting as fuck

 

[Public Enemy Rated R]

this is interesting as fuck

1970ish hard drive

 

[crontab]

wd black 2tb $50 @ walmart instore only i think. per sd

 

[JaimeZX]

WD 14TB @ Best Buy for $189

 

[Jumpem]

this is interesting as fuck

1979 250 MB.

 

[Super Dolemite]

Costco has a solid state 1 tb on sale this week