External Hard Drive advice

[Cichy]

I need to back my PC up and I was looking on amazon for a drive. All the top picks on there seem to have horrible reviews. Anyone got any suggestion?

[Sonomaa]

western digital NAS is my go to for external backup, that being said, almost everything I want to backup I can to a google drive for 20 bucks a year. I dont like the idea of backing things up to moving part drives these days

[Gryffes]

I need to back my PC up and I was looking on amazon for a drive. All the top picks on there seem to have horrible reviews. Anyone got any suggestion?

Budget
Space Requirements
How often are you backing up
How important are your backups

[Cichy]

I need at least 2TB. I'm gonna be buying new PC and want to move stuff over pretty much. I was hoping to spend about $100-200

[Kalmado]

Shucked a 8TB Seagate external and it's been in my PC for over a year now. Zero complaints. Spent $130 on it.

Seagate 4TB External (STDR4000100) for $55 at Target. Your mileage may vary. Check link below and enter zip code.

https://brickseek.com/target-invento...ku=056-02-0309

[Gryffes]

Shucked a 8TB Seagate external and it's been in my PC for over a year now. Zero complaints. Spent $130 on it.

Seagate 4TB External (STDR4000100) for $55 at Target. Your mileage may vary. Check link below and enter zip code.

https://brickseek.com/target-invento...ku=056-02-0309

Friends don't let friends buy Seagate.

[Kalmado]

Friends don't let friends buy Seagate.

I have zero complaints with Seagate. Even have a 3tb drive that's been going five years strong and counting!

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[Kalmado]

Friends don't let friends buy Seagate.

I have zero complaints with Seagate. Even have a 3tb drive that's been going five years strong and counting!

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[Gryffes]

I'd probably go with this: https://www.amazon.com/Black-Passpor...dp/B01LQQHBK8/

$97 for 4tb

Re:Kal - checkout backblaze drive failure rates , the main other issue w/ seagates aside from industry leading failure rates is how they fail, when they fail they typically wreck the platter and the data is unrecoverable vs every other brand that has read head><platter protection.

[Cichy]

thanks all!

[Boyiee]

Bestbuy just had a 10TB USB 3.0 for $160, might be able to catch that again or similar.

https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapcsal...m_source=share

[Boyiee]

OH SHIT HURRY

https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapcsal...m_source=share

[Boyiee]

thanks all!

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[Cichy]

thx got one

[Kalmado]

I'd probably go with this: https://www.amazon.com/Black-Passpor...dp/B01LQQHBK8/

$97 for 4tb

Re:Kal - checkout backblaze drive failure rates , the main other issue w/ seagates aside from industry leading failure rates is how they fail, when they fail they typically wreck the platter and the data is unrecoverable vs every other brand that has read head><platter protection.

I was unaware about the read head on the platter. Good info! If I was to buy another internal 7200 I'd for sure be looking at HGST although my last purchase was a 6TB WD Black off Ebay and I have zero complaints for that one either.

[Niya]

My go-to choice for hard drives has been WD for the last 10+ years since they have decent prices and so far no drive has failed me. Heck, even my NAS that is running on 2TB WD green(!) HDDs since 2011 hasn't had any issues yet, even after I used it for tor-renting (sorry, apparently tripped the pirate filter with that word) for ~4 years.
External HDDs can be hit and miss. Definitely avoid 3rd party companies like Intenso, they just stuff any drive they can get into those cases, and we had quite awful failure rates on those with our customers who use them for backup rotations.
There's also always the option to get a regular internal HDD and a USB enclosure.