I have been watching YouTube videos and scrolling through Amazon reviews and Reddit posts for hours, still at a loss for which external hard drive to buy. I also tried to understand how the Backblaze stats could apply to my search, but I was unsuccessful. I don't care so much about speed or anything; I'm primarily concerned with avoiding data corruption and loss. I like the idea (and price!) of a 2TB external hard drive, as I am only planning on storing my music, pictures, videos, and documents. I have heard it is good to have both an SSD and a HDD external hard drive. Is that true? I want to purchase two external hard drives, and I am unsure if I should buy two of the same model or two different. All I'm really looking for is reliability. Also, how often should I replace a 2TB external hard drive? And could someone recommend a retailer that I can trust to ship very carefully?
BTW, the current external hard drive I have is a 2TB Toshiba DTB420. It worked well for many months, until recently it has not been safely ejecting unless I go to command prompt>disk part and offline-ing the hard drive. And I really don't mind doing that; I'm just worried about it eventually leading to the problem of corruption or complete failure, and subsequent file loss.
Thank you so much. Any help means so much to me!