The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/500ugs on 2025-05-02 13:51:19.
disclaimer, i'm still new/learning about tech and datahoarding, so excuse my lack of knowledge or any misused terms
for a quick backstory, i've been using icloud and the storage that came prebuilt with my pc for as long as i can remember, but i'm starting to run out of space on my hard drive and, because of my IRL situation, need better portability of all my files and whatnot. i'd look into different cloud options, but i can't afford any subscriptions, and quite frankly don't want nor trust everything being on a cloud server.
recently i had purchased a few decent USB flashdrives, but they don't offer as much space as i'm needing, plus i can get pretty paranoid so the idea that anything can corrupt or malfuction randomly and/or after longterm usage is a dealbreaker for me.
i was looking into more options on bestbuy, i.e. WD EasyStore, but i worry that since it's just another USB storage (as far as i know, at least, i'm unsure of it's technical differences), it could possibly have the same issue?
TL;DR, as the title says, what would be the best portable storage drive to get that isn't cloud based, has a few TBs of storage, and isn't something that'll defect overtime/corrupt files?