jerryc41 wrote:
Amazon has a WD 20GB external hard drive on sale for World Backup Day. The price is temporarily $279. On the other hand, a 4TB WD M.2 costs $299, on sale from $699. Imagine having 16GB of data on that drive and having it fail.
Sounds great on initial examination. I could consolidate several existing external HDDs on this thing. The catch is that I don't trust these things enough to rely on just one for backup, so I'd have to buy three of them, two for in the house and one to keep somewhere else. That's what I do with my smaller drives. I'm sure that storage on smaller drives would add up to the same cost, but in my case, they're already purchased, and I have a lot of "headroom" to add data.