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

Only a one year warranty.... and that's practically being as hidden from consumers as it can be in all the literature released by Seagate for retailers and consumers.

These external desktop backup drives use reconditioned drives, or low on test performance specs out of production.

This is a case of, "It's too good to be true."