Register a SA Forums Account here!
JOINING THE SA FORUMS WILL REMOVE THIS BIG AD, THE ANNOYING UNDERLINED ADS, AND STUPID INTERSTITIAL ADS!!!

You can: log in, read the tech support FAQ, or request your lost password. This dumb message (and those ads) will appear on every screen until you register! Get rid of this crap by registering your own SA Forums Account and joining roughly 150,000 Goons, for the one-time price of $9.95! We charge money because it costs us money per month for bills, and since we don't believe in showing ads to our users, we try to make the money back through forum registrations.
 
  • Post
  • Reply
Gonna Send It
Jul 8, 2010

Captain Invictus posted:

I just got an amazon gift card for christmas, what would be a good, robust, sizeable external hard drive to pick up from there? I've got about 150ish I can spend. Something in the 6+ terabyte range would be preferable. Might put it in a safety deposit box, not sure yet since I've got another tiny 4tb drive I might put there instead

is this one decent? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07D5V2ZXD

If you can, exchange your gift card to bestbuy for one of these:

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-easystore-8tb-external-usb-3-0-hard-drive-black/6425302.p?skuId=6425302

Not going to win any speed records, but CMR 8TB for $140 is hard to beat.

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

Gonna Send It
Jul 8, 2010

Captain Invictus posted:

dang, I already redeemed the gift card, guessing amazon funds can't be used for that then.

This is for creating a long term offsite backup for my safety deposit box that I can occasionally, say once every year or two, take out, back everything up, and then put back in secure storage. Would that be a good one to get for that purpose, if so, I'll just buy it.

https://www.amazon.com/Book-Desktop...09861105&sr=8-3

It looks like this one went in stock/on sale since yesterday. I'm using one as a backup drive on my desk and it's very needs suiting. Do you use cloud backups already? If not, it's something else you should entertain alongside this.

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • Post
  • Reply