I recently ran into a situation that basically made my external disk useless, where I may have done a bad movement and messing it up. And while I lost it, all the files I had there (or at least a vast majority of them), luckily were still backed up elsewhere (including the laptop I have been using for the past three years).
However, my old devices and my laptop are already on their last legs and I am dreading all the moves I am doing to migrate everything to somewhere much safer. I know that eventually I may run into this same problem in three or five years, and I have been trying to look into free cloud storage alternatives, but my stuff is TOO much, some is too copyright-ey and/or heavy and, you know.
I have been looking around, and I'm inclining to go for Toshiba because I feel it's a brand "I could trust much better", however, the exact model, I'm not sure which and I know it can get pricey (I would preferably go for 2 TB, as it turns out I am not saving much these past two years).
My previous external disk was from ADATA, of 2 TB, I cannot give you the exact model because I haven't really gotten it back yet, and I don't have the box at the moment, so it's a bit of a vague memory. They tend to be okay (from what I've read) but for my unluck, I had to pay for the casualty.
I really need a guide on this because I feel this is becoming urgent and urgent and I don't know where to look to, it's too overwhelming to me.