I read something about once-reliable sites that would tell you the best [tech thing] now not giving legit reviews, being paid to say good things about certain companies, and I do not remember where I read that or which sites, so I figured I’d bypass the issue and ask people here. I’m pretty new to anything near the level of complexity and technical details that I see on datahoarder communities. I know about the 321 backup rule and that’s it. This is me trying to find something to hold copy 3 of my data.
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Backblaze has the best data on hard drive reliability. You’ll need to buy your own USB caddy to put the drive in.
Even if you’re not shucking, shucks.top has the current best prices for WD drives.Edit: see @gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works’s reply below, apparently shucks.top is gone.
Actually, read the notice at the top - looks like Amazon didn’t like it and shut down the api token. It suggests going to diskprices.com.
oh… 😐 thank you for the heads up
Redundancy is your best option regardless- that said, when those western digital easy-stores go on sale, I like to grab them for offline storage. Something like rsync every couple of months and you have a decent second copy of your data to keep on a shelf. The $/Gig was hard to beat, I haven’t gotten any in a year or two, but there were sales to get the drives with enclosures for like $130 for 8TB. At the time, that was far less than I was paying for internal NAS drives. Since it’s not a daily driver, you don’t need super high runtime or performance.
