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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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what would be your go to 3.5inch HDD (alien.top)

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one of my 6TB barracuda pros is throwing errors and its full of important stuff, i want to replace it but im not sure what would be the most reliable/cost effective drive to replace it with
any input is appreciated

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

A 10tb+ shucked ( buy an usb enclosure and break it open) drive is a good low coat approach with some risk

wd only makes nas or enterprise drives of that size so you are very likely to get a high quality drive inside a large WD usb enclosure. wd doesn't make special drives for these enclosures they use what they have lying around

So they are often great value for money with some caveats

while all the 14tb elements I shucked where Hitachi enterprise drives ( most reliable ones wd has ) they reduced speed from 7200 to 5400 rpm
they often use a newer sata standard connector that may not work with older motherboards apparently in that case you can tape of one of the pins
depending on your country you lose warranty. Although in the US you seem to keep it