Costco is about to offer a 5 TB Seagate portable hard drive for $95.00
Sale runs from 11/23 to 12/24
Thanks for the tip. I'm about to need one.
Check the price on the 8TB drive at B&H
mr spock wrote:
Costco is about to offer a 5 TB Seagate portable hard drive for $95.00
Sale runs from 11/23 to 12/24
Use GENTLY. Check the warranty before buying. If you still buy, get a couple and back one up with the other, or better, use them as a RAID 1 mirrored array. OR, back one up to an enterprise-grade desktop RAID array when you get back to your home or office.
I've had a couple of cheap portables die on me over the years. As a result I will no longer use conventional spinning platter drives on location. I only use them as long term storage devices.
A good portable NVMe drive connected to a recent laptop via Thunderbolt 3 or 4 (which uses Thunderbolt-rated USB-C ports, connectors, and cables) is a much safer, faster, and workable solution. It may be less costly, should it prevent the need for data recovery services or the loss of priceless images and data.
Gene51
Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)
Gene51
Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)
burkphoto wrote:
Use GENTLY. Check the warranty before buying. If you still buy, get a couple and back one up with the other, or better, use them as a RAID 1 mirrored array. OR, back one up to an enterprise-grade desktop RAID array when you get back to your home or office.
I've had a couple of cheap portables die on me over the years. As a result I will no longer use conventional spinning platter drives on location. I only use them as long term storage devices.
A good portable NVMe drive connected to a recent laptop via Thunderbolt 3 or 4 (which uses Thunderbolt-rated USB-C ports, connectors, and cables) is a much safer, faster, and workable solution. It may be less costly, should it prevent the need for data recovery services or the loss of priceless images and data.
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I would not use a drive that is not certified for RAID in a RAID array. RAID certified drives are more robust (typically having 5 yr warranties), and have error handling that is optimized for RAID arrays. A non-RAID drive will take too long to recover from the reallocation of data that happens when there is a soft error - and will consequently be dropped from the array - even if it is a mirrored drive. It's probably better to simply do a scheduled drive sync using a standard backup program to copy the contents of one drive to another every night.
I'm a gonna insert a segue right in here.
MOMENTS ago I just paid $169.00 for a WD 10tb external at Newegg.
It was $189, then a $20 promo code paid the sales tax.
It's Black Friday, getting late, limited supplies.
Good luck to y'all
Harry0 wrote:
I'm a gonna insert a segue right in here.
MOMENTS ago I just paid $169.00 for a WD 10tb external at Newegg.
It was $189, then a $20 promo code paid the sales tax.
It's Black Friday, getting late, limited supplies.
Good luck to y'all
My bad,
Distracted by my wife, I didn't add/remember that I also spent on other items.
Price was $149.
YES BestBuy had the 14tbs. Had. Out of stock. Hence Newegg.
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