Storage Wars [External Storage Recommendation/Discussion]

[Andrew]

I went and finally purchased something incredibly long overdue: an external SSD. Somehow I managed to find a clearance deal at Walmart for a SanDisk 2TB Extreme (this exact one on Amazon) and it's simply excellent. I moved 50GB in 2 minutes! I guess that isn't very surprising anymore, but my last external drive was a 1TB Toshiba extHDD from 2013.

Anyways! What do you use? Any recommendations, or anything you'd say to stay away from?

 

[Lesdeux]

I don't have my own (I really want to make one) but for longer term and decent sized storage I'd recommend anyone looking for solutions to build a NAS (Network-Attached Storage). Being able to save to a local file server and get files from somewhere not on my PC would be ballin'. Every year I fill up my drives and have to get rid of stuff and I'm very much a data hoarder.

On top of that, I'd highly recommend powering it and your PC through a UPS, just in case of outages so files don't get corrupted, or stuff done doesn't gets lost. It's not super cheap (especially a NAS with a lot of storage) to do all that but finding good deals throughout a year isn't that unheard of.

 

[GlitchyPSI]

I went and finally purchased something incredibly long overdue: an external SSD. Somehow I managed to find a clearance deal at Walmart for a SanDisk 2TB Extreme (this exact one on Amazon) and it's simply excellent. I moved 50GB in 2 minutes! I guess that isn't very surprising anymore, but my last external drive was a 1TB Toshiba extHDD from 2013.

Anyways! What do you use? Any recommendations, or anything you'd say to stay away from?

whatever you do don't get seagate they got a horrid rep for failure at the worst times

toshiba and verbatim are OK, what I did recently was get a hdd enclosure and a 2tb WD Blue drive, i don't trust drives I can't take out nowadays because it's like some sort of scary blackbox, so a drive intended for internal use and an enclosure works just as well if not better as an extdrive

of course i did have ext drives in the past but yknow kinda futureproofing better