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"?
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Andre Louis
in reply to Helen • • •Majid Hussain
in reply to Andre Louis • • •incorrectable errors lots of them, this was a 4tb hdd.
westen digital not wd, working like a champ.
westen digital mobile 2tb smr drive.
for my usecase, an smr drive works quite well.
Andre Louis
in reply to Majid Hussain • • •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.
Majid Hussain
in reply to Andre Louis • • •alot of file movings and such a non smr drive also knowne as a cmr drive is what you're looking for, an smr drive is normally for write once read alot situations such as backing up your machine to the drive.
Majid Hussain
in reply to Andre Louis • • •backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-dโฆ
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