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External hard drive selection (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I’m a data hoarder but I live on a boat so that means a couple of things. 1) space is at a premium and 2) power is 12v and at a premium.

I’ve currently got 20tb on several 2.5 external drives and have been running everything connected to a NUC for the last 3 years without a problem.

I’m started to have one of the drives drop out every few days and it requires a unplug/plug to get it back.

I’m starting to be a bit concerned about the heat as well.

I would really like to buy a large drive and install it in a high quality external enclosure to keep things cool.

I’m looking for some advice on which drive is a good choice for this and what is a high quality enclosure?

I’ll need to double up what I order (backup) since we spend most of our time in very remote locations and I’ve got a couple weeks to get these ordered before we lose an address.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

2.5inch spinning disks max out at 5Gb, so for anything bigger you'd be looking at spendy SSDs or 3.5inch drives.

3,5inch won't be straightforward, but not impossible, you could use a USB to SATA lead, and feed the drive the 12v it needs from whatever supply you have on the boat.