Hello all!
I am student working at an archive at the moment and have been tasked with finding a new external hard drive solution for our data. I am a bit of a noob datahoarder, so I would really appreciate some advice. Don't worry, we also use a cloud based solution to store our data, these hard drives are for redundancy.
Currently we are using over 20 G-DRIVE 4TB drives (model number: 0G02537), and while these drives are still quite functional, they are getting quite old.
I have looked into both external HDD and external SSD options, but thanks to some of the posts on this subreddit about SSD cold storage issues, I believe that an external HDD will serve my interests best.
Based on reviews from PCMAG, wired, and many others that I should have written down, I have been leaning towards recommending we use either the "Western Digital My Book 24TB" or "Western Digital Elements Desktop HDD Storage 24TB".
Please let me know if you have any positive/negative experiences with these hard drives, or if you can recommend an alternate hard drive for me to consider.
Thank you all!