I am looking for two portable USB-C drives which I intend to use for weekly backups. I have done some Google-ing and zeroed out Lacie 5 TB which is at $226.57 (after all discounts except cashrewards/shopback).
I use a MacBook Pro and this seems to be a fair deal to me, but I am not sure about the performance. Is there anything better in a similar price range?
Thanks in advance.
I am after 5 TB disks. My current documents are 3 TB, so 5 TB should be enough for another 4-5 years.
I can't suggest a particular brand but one thing I can say is if you are really serious about backup to USB HDD then you should have two. What happens if your only 5TB drive completely stuffs up? Whenever I do buy a new HDD I buy two and use the second one for a fortnight or montly entire backup. Relying on one just one drive for a weekly backup solution is risky.
Hey, that is why I said two :)
I am looking for two portable USB-C drives
Gah! Sorry. Should ban myself from ozbargain replies before my 8am caffeine fix
Make sure you keep them in 2 physical locations a well, so a fire or similar doesn't destroy both copies.
You could also grab yourself something like this (USB3.0) to open up your options (since it's only for backups).. I agree with @LikeMike above that it's worth getting two drives for backup.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Ugreen-USB-C-OTG-Cable-USB-3…
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Ugreen-USB-Type-C-Adapter-US…
Or get a portable USB-C drive and then a desktop one with an adaptor above for home use, to keep costs down and have two backup media - eg. desktop: https://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/seagate-6t…
Get a normal portable HDD and then buy whatever cable/adaptor you need to make it USB C.
Samsung T5 series…. What size do you want? They come in many 256gb - 2TB, so you should be covered.
https://www.scorptec.com.au/product/Hard-Drives-&-SSDs/Exter…