It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Matt45045 on 2025-04-23 19:07:52.

I was trying to wait until the 30TB Hard Drives were available to buy a new hard drive but I ran out of space today and have no choice but to get a new one. I saw a 28 TB external hard drive I was going to get, remove from the case, and install internally into my computer. After some research I've seen that on some of the newer external hard drives this is no longer possible. And upon further research that external drives may be from rejected, lower quality, returned, or under performing stock. I was wondering if I should avoid external drives completely and what the largest capacity consumer hard drive available right now is that I could buy as I haven't seen any 28TB internal drives.