Personally I still stay away from Segate but I have no real valid reason to as I’ve not owned one since 2006. But the darlin of /r/DataHorder is the WD MyBook 8tb. Since they regularly go on sale for as low as 149. And inside is a WD red label drive (their NAS drive). Now not every drive is alike as some are white label reds and others have the 3.3v reset rail and such like that. There’s a great thread pinned at the top of that subreddit about them. But for just big ol storage, hard to beat. If you are into shucking them and putting into a NAS or even server with NAS software its hard to beat as well.
New model with the ‘white label reds' https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-my-book-8tb-external-usb-3-0-hard-drive-black/5605510.p?skuId=5605510 Old model I’ve bought way too many of with real red label reds https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-easystore-8tb-external-usb-3-0-hard-drive-black/5792401.p?skuId=5792401 I’ve never used one of these inside the case but many have. If you were just going usb theres little difference between those two models. If looking to shuck them and use the bare drives they are a little different. The subreddit will lead ya down that road. Either way both are crazy cheap for 8tb of single spindle. Also… RAID isn’t backup ;) something thats sometimes hard to remember by the best of us. -- Kevin Hart On July 19, 2018 at 3:11:59 PM, Paul Boniol (paul.bon...@gmail.com) wrote: Considering buying an external hard drive, primary use would be DVR (from Mythbuntu). Any preferences between Western Digital and Segate? I've seen about as many reviews saying "this drive failed after x months, lost my data, had to spend hours on the phone, and I had to pay shipping to get it replaced under warranty" on both. I've been considering a new computer as the existing is many years old now, and had some issues turning it on occasionally when it gets turned off. (So power supply likely starting to go.) Paul -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
