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Which is the best portable external hard drive disk? (alien.top)
submitted 2 years ago by Serkenobi@alien.top to c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum
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Hi.

I usually buy Western Digital Elements to save huge data (as films in Blu-ray or gameplays) but i want to know if there are still the best option to portable external hard drive disk. I only pursue three things:

  1. Huge capacity.

  2. Big lifespan.

  3. Competitive price.

I know the typical sentences as "the average lifespan is 3/4 years" or "the external hard drive disk can last 1 minute or 20 years". But i want to know in this moment, which is the best brand, the best model to guarantee (as far as possible) that the hard drive disk last many years.

Thanks in advance!

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[–] rajmahid@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

I must be the luckiest guy on the planet because of the 12 external drives I have, the earliest being from 2002, the latest 2019 (WD, Toshiba & Seagate) have not had a single failure. They’re used for plex, archiving music & movies. I perform my own crude manual “raid” by storing each new file in 2 separate HDs as I get it. I fully understand drives do eventually fail, so I’m somewhat covered with doubling up my files.