I find vendors sell their defective garbage drives mostly as "external drives" as they only offer a year warranty, and most any external enclosure/drive ala costco always died just after a year.  Almost like they knew.  NOT recommended, any of them.

Do yourself a favor, buy a decent drive with a warranty, and get an external enclosure yourself to put it in yourself.  I'm not even sure what is good for spinners these days, but check backblaze drive review assessments.  I tend to stay with HGST/Hitachi, even though they are owned by Western Digital these days, they still tend to suck less.  I've only lost one HGST drive in the past 5 years or so from my synology raid.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-for-2020/

-mb


On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 1:37 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
Wonderful! I was deleting things and elated home.
Now I have plenty of room.... until I restored with my backups.\

In any case,  what is a good external drive?

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