Hi all!
I'm not looking for anything fancy but I am a very gentle person and somehow managed to accidentally destroy a Seagate 2TB external hard drive (after spending all night loading things to it...) and I am overwhelmed looking at replacement options. I mainly would like something a tad less fragile.
I ruined the hard drive by placing my laptop to my left (from on my lap) and forgot the drive was plugged in, so it dangled in the air by the cord for maybe <5 seconds and that completely destroyed it. It beeps now, which other threads on this subreddit have told me means that something inside cannot spin and it is, in fact, undetectable.
I take responsibility for it and no complaints there, I simply would just like to replace it with something that can take the occasional less-than-100%-perfect use because I was shocked how fragile it was!
Thank you!!