All Hard Drives will ultimately fail. To prevent valuable loss of your precious photos please go for a "Hot Swappable Enclosure" running a "Raid Array". What this means simply is:- a) You buy an enclosure i) with WiFi connectivity which allows you to save your files/photos over your Home Network w/o any wires; or ii) with the old fashioned manual USB 3.0 connectivity - not very convenient as you need wires. b) You buy one pair of exactly the same hard drive - some enclosures allow you two pairs of hard drives increasing your storage capacity. So a pair of 4 TB hard drives will give you 4 TB storage space - NOT 8 TB - as the Raid array duplicates data on to the other drive - a safety insurance. c) Now if a Hard Drive crashes, you have your photos safe & sound on the other drive. You pull out the defective hard drive and replace it with a similar make and model hard drive - please check this piece of information as my technology may be old. The raid array copies the files automatically on to the new drive and you carry on as usual. d) Hot Swappable means you can pull out both the Hard Drives and insert another pair with the system powered up. Great convenience and management of your photos. Thanks for reading. Regards. Bipin. camp: San Mateo, CA
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