Only $26.90 per TB, seems like a decent price.
The WD Elements desktop hard disk drive with USB 3.0 offers reliable, high capacity, add-on storage, fast data transfer rates, and universal connectivity with USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 devices. The drive’s features up to 20TB capacity
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not yet - though it is $200 cheaper than it was yesterday. Still nearly $800 though
These days I’m finding less and less use of hard drives. Most content can now be streamed online.
Useful if your internet is down though ;)
Haven’t had internet down for years. Can’t remember the last time it went down.
Having said that, I do have a large collection of Hard Drives with old content that you can’t find these days and I do watch them time to time.
old content that you can’t find these days
Totally, every now and then it's nice to watch roadrunner again.
NBN doesn't do maintenance in your area? Pull the other one.
I lost two drives with similar data to a surge before so heads up if you haven't backed up much of it. Wasn't until about a year after I realized I had some documents, logs and old internet fun stuff that isn't around any more.
I can apparently send them to the us and get the chip replaced though no guarantee if the damage goes further.
It's certainly true about use cases for archive level data storage being much lower with good internet.
I've re downloaded something instead of plugging in an external or sometime I can't remember where it's saved on a slow drive and it's faster than a long search.
With subpar quality, of course. You are also at the whim of the streaming service, which can remove your favourite show or movie from their platform whenever they like.
If you are storing 10's of TB's its kind of mad not to get a proper NAS and RAID setup imo
You're right. I have about 18tb of Remuxes and games, but I have no idea how to set up a NAS. Online instructions didn't help either.
@DontNeedThis: You can also get a RAID enclosure or DAS (direct attached storage). Provides data parity, usually cheaper and less headache than NAS setup and maintenence, but also less functionality.
@buffalo bill: May I ask what functionalities? I just need to be able to connect it to a computer.
Also, thanks for the suggestion.
I'm at a point where I have 45TB content and I can't afford to have redundancy. It's just too expensive.
I have settled with the fact that I'll lose some ISOs if any of the disk failed.
Some people like to hoard data (like me).
Plex for the win!
You mean Linux ISOs?
Yeah but each year it feels like the amount of streaming services you need to be able to watch your favourite shows doubles because everyone keeps removing their content from each other and starting their own services.
It's already reached the point where if you have a few different streaming services you are back at the price of foxtel :(
Speak for yourself, I am a handsome man and have terabytes of selfies.
You better maintain your own copy of your marketable material then, incase OnlyFans removes your account.
I hear ya, I used to smack all my movies and TV shows onto my hard drive and plug it into the TV via USB to save (long term) on the streaming services. These days I just use my computer with 20TB of internal HDDs as a Plex server and stream it straight to the TV without dealing with the clunky Samsung UI and lack of search features.
Only use case these days is as a mega backup. Not particularly interested in downloading another 18TB of media should something go wrong on one of my hard drives. Expensive peace of mind
Streaming services remove, edit and geoblock content whenever they want. Not to mention the price for all these subs. I have a large 4k blu ray rip collection stored on multiple HDD's. A good idea these days.
Do these have the 3.3v pin issue when shucking?
Can these be shucked?
I have shucked the 12tb ones before, but cannot vouch for these new ones.
We've had low prices of around $477 before so this is an ok deal
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Any deal for 22TB?