• elucubra@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    6 months ago

    These things (and Seagate’s) have the usb interface soldered on, so if the drivd dies, forget about the data, no way to connect to another usb adapter to try to recover. Granted, it’s usually the drive that dies, but in these cases, you have a 100% rate of non recovery . Any other brand’s are standard drives. My favorite are toshiba.

  • NutWrench@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I’ve got the 5TB version of this drive as a backup for my gaming laptop. Haven’t had any problems with it.

    • vanderbilt@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      OMG is it bad. We used a couple WD drives for a surveillance camera array and they didn’t last a year. Two drives failed 9 months apart. Ended up going on Blackblaze and picking what looked best for our XFS Raid 10 having learned that lesson the hard way.