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Large HDD purchase advice (urgent) (alien.top)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I have a 14tb MyBook that is displaying worrying signs, and after contacting WD they are willing to RMA the drive, but I'd need to send it to them. I have 7-8tb of vital info on that drive that I need to get off it soon, was about to buy another 14tb drive to use as a backup but I don't have the money free atm.

Anyone know what the cheapest 14-16TB drives are atm? Or have other advice on what to do in my situation? I could get an elements 14tb for about €250, can't seem to find any recertified/reconditioned. Benefit of that is that once my MyBook is RMA'd I'd be able to use that as a permanent backup then.

My location is Ireland, and I'd love to buy the fucker ASAP because I fear this 8-ish month old MyBook is about to fail.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I have 7-8tb of vital info on that drive that I need to get off

If it's vital, it should already have a backup.

You don't always get warning signs; especially with a laptop or portable drive. They can fall off a table at any point and never get back up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Agreed! The choice however at the time was have a single point of failure, or don’t save the data and give up entirely. Did the best I could!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Not sure about Ireland but if your drive only has 8TB used you could get a 10TB short term, might save a third of the cost.

You do need backups long term. Research 3-2-1 backups.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Best Buy 0% credit card? Idk what’s in Ireland though lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

with WD you can pay for advanced RMA - they will charge you a $25 fee and then place a hold for the value of the replacement external drive on your card until they receive the bad one back.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

What makes you think it will fail? I’ve seen certain images of people with crazy three letter symbols for everything and they point to one and say that’s bad or something…I dunno if that’s the kind of worry or just a bug in your system. There can always be a software error hanging around in the system making things slow. Maybe try to free up some space on the drive or defragment it if it’s acting very slow. Or switch to a different operating system.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Look for the best deals and the best $/TB ratio. Not really much other advices rather than having more backup copies next time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Found WD recertified MyBook drives at €200/14tb, so €14.28/tb and I bought two for backup, working towards a proper 3-2-1

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Good luck further with your configuration!