I feel like I'm using this place as my own personal help desk, but also, you have knowledge that I'm severely lacking in. I always end up learning useful basic stuff.

I have external HDDs for backups (WD Passports) I've had for a few years, and I'd like another one *just* to store photos and videos on. It doesn't need to do anything fancy. It will just be another location to store everything, like a backup, but also so all the media is in one place.

Is another Passport a good way to go because it's what I know? Is it a cardinal sin against technology to use that brand and there's a whole discourse I've missed out on about how they're secretly raising a pig army to lead the revolution? (Actually, I'm fully on board with this... Anyway...)

If there weren't so many photos, I'd print all of them out and have millions of physical photo albums. This might the next best thing. Do you have any advice beyond, "please don't purchase anything from Temu"?
#hdd #AskFedi

in reply to Helen

I've been a fan of the Seagate BUP BK drives for years myself, I'm sure that these days, most drives are much of a muchness. If you're a happy Passport user and they've given you no trouble, probably safe continuing to be so. I found the one passport I had years ago, talking 2012 era, slower than a comparable Seagate of the same vintage, so I just never purchased Passport again. A very small sample, so don't take that as anything other than just my thoughts. It's not based in anything concrete as such.
in reply to Majid Hussain

@mhussain See? Totally different. I think drives are hard to quantify for that reason. I have 4TB and 5TB BUP drives connected to my NAS at the moment and both are doing well. They must be at least 5 years old each I think. Could probably check when I purchased.
Either way there are definitely good and bad with every brand so it's just going to be whatever reviews show, and budget requirements at the end of the day.
in reply to Andre Louis

@FreakyFwoof backblaze are a good source for drive health overtime granted, this is in an enviroment where the drives are powered on for most of the year, but a good idear will be gained as to which drive will serve well.
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