While I admittedly don't have any of their 16TB offerings, I've had a high failure rate on their 12TB so-called IronWolf Pro NAS drives.
My personal belief is that Seagate would do us all a favor if they just redirected their factory output to the garbage dump. Greg -----Original Message----- From: Hardware <[email protected]> On Behalf Of _ Winterlight Sent: Thursday, December 8, 2022 2:33 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [H] 16GB Seagate External USB 3.2 drive my mistake I meant Terabyte ________________________________ From: Hardware <[email protected]> on behalf of Richard Quilhot <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, December 7, 2022 2:40 PM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [H] 16GB Seagate External USB 3.2 drive 16gb is very small these days. I would look for at least 1tb. Rick Q [email protected] On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 5:17 PM _ Winterlight <[email protected]> wrote: > I am considering buying a 16GB Seagate External USB 3.2 drive for a > backup everything drive. This wouldn't be for critical important data > which I back up encrypted on a online google drive. But media takes up > lots of bytes and I never want to have to get a bigger drive. > > How durable or Seagate drives these days...can I trust it with 16GB of > data? > > <w> >
