I might not be asking in the right place because my goal isn't to set up something that is highly systematic or robust at this time.
The place I'm renting has serious roof issues and a bunch of my stuff was water damaged. I'm trying to salvage what I can to some portable drives and get the most important belongings out as soon as I can.
In the past I remember Easystores/WD Elements being popular here, but apparently they have different drives inside now or high failure rates or something?
And then I was just going to go with whatever Costco carried, but at this time that's only the doomed Sandisk SSDs.
Anyone have any recommendations? Doesn't have to be perfect, just reasonably priced.
Just looking to buy two drives for about $300-500 total. I guess HDDs preferred if they are decently reliable and not SMR.
EDIT: OK externals are all apparently crap? https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/146hb9k/information_about_cmr_to_smr_manufacturer/
Maybe I'll just roll the dice on those Sandisk SSDs..