Hello! I only have my toe dipped in data hoarding but I've been meaning to buy the orico 6228US3 dual bay non cloning docking station.
Here is my use case:
- Use my extra 3.5" 500GB HDD for my modded wii u (to be formatted for the wii u) it will be where my games are installed while running the console
- back up photos, videos, school files, and game ROMs I have on future storage expansions (1-4TB at a time)
- have two drives connected to my pc at the same time
- on a very tight budget as a student
In the future, I would like to build my own NAS if I get into bigger data hoarding and archiving. It's something I want to do but do not have the budget for right now. I have a lot of files currently but 1 or 2 more extra drives would be enough. If I could, I'd like to own two copies of my files.
I have read some posts here on the subreddit raising issues on cooling, partitions, and corrupted drives. On cooling, would it still be an issue for a dual bay? I don't exactly understand the formatting problem of the partitions so I'd like to ask about that too. On corrupted drives, I'll always wait for the disk to stop spinning before ejection and also not move it as much as possible.
Is a dual bay docking station a good low cost entry into data hoarding or is there an alternative more appropriate for my use case?