The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Sufficient_Level_238 on 2025-02-06 03:37:15.
I have two external hard drives. I love them dearly, they can hold so much of my stuff that I can't get rid of. But I am very simple and know almost nothing about technology so that is something I will have to start teaching myself. For now I just go by what my dumb brain understands which is "external hard drive big? Good, that good storage". They are san disk G drives. Idk how many bites, I went with the highest that I could afford, which was somewhere in the middle and seemed like a lot.
I got these guys because I had one gdrive originally but with no silicone shell for protection. That thing lasted me for twelve years. It was beautiful. That is all I need to feel safe to use these things. But I am open to other suggestions of what drives, also am lurking around figuring out myself what's good from other folks here. Drives are all I understand. I don't understand internal harddrives at this time. And I have a mistrust of mainstream storage drives on the internet like icloud, google drive, and dropbox. When I was in college I heard stories about the dropbox being hacked twice. I was relieved that I didn't have anything precious saved in there.
But I do feel very dumb for just storing things on hard drives and nothing else. It's precarious business. My first g drive died when I accidentally knocked it off the table two years ago. It was a devastating loss. I was never able to fix it because the only business available that could do that was out of my budget. So I got two new ones to replace it. But I want more. MORE. I am so paranoid of losing shit and I also have some paranoia about mainstream tech being hacked and everything being lost or stolen that way.
If you have found an online storage drive that you trust, do you have recommendations? I only know of one called Stash which I hear is popular for storing away nsfw stuff. I hope you're safe and well and doing okay and if not I hope it gets better soon.