It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Wimoweh on 2025-01-24 18:06:31.

Not sure if this is a dumb question but I've never really used an external HDD. My worry is that if I get one (looking for a 4tb one to backup all my important files periodically) is that it will have some dumb software on it that will get in the way of me using it. I already use duplicacy on all my machines to backup to the cloud and my plan is to just add folders on the external HDD as secondary storage locations and do the backup via duplicacy. Can I do this using any external HDD (maybe needing to format it first?) or are there any considerations to keep in mind? I also want something I could connect to either windows or linux (but I guess as long as I can format it as NTFS I'll be good right?)