Hard drives

Are external usb drives like this bullshit? Or are they perfectly fine?

Is it best to get one like this, or a regular hdd and put it in an external case, or shove another drive into my pc?

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If you get one, get a 2.5" version so you don't have to fuck with an extra power source. I had three 2TB 3.5" and never took them with me or used them because it's a pain to connect/disconnect them.

How do I know it's that?

Also don't they drives really overheat in this kind of enclosure?

If you do non stop transfers for hours on end to initially load stuff on it probably. I always keep a spare heatsink from old computers sitting on top of it. That's plenty enough to keep it cool. I imagine a flat sealed container filled with water would work as well.

u wot m8

i had about 5 ranging from 1TB - 5TB
all broke within a month, one broke literally the same day from like a 20cm drop, all were by WD
from that point on i swore to never rely on any kind of mechanical storage
just get SSDs.instead and cloud storage

>Broken from a 20cm drop
Don't drop your fucking HDD's

Thing is, from my personal experience internal HDDs aren't as susceptible to damage as external ones are, and honestly for me personally if something can't survive that tiny bit of damage then it's not even worth having in the first place

I hope you have a local copy of your data as well.
Shit can do megaupload on you.

i doubt Google Drive will really go megaupload on me, but if i get a job sometime around graduation next year i can start saving up for a local data storage solution

>I don't know how to be careful
Might as well wear a helmet and a styrofoam suit for when you trip. Don't forget to bubble wrap yourself!

nibba if you literally do nothing in life but NEET it up then i can see that being an argument, but my life requires me to carry things around, which means they need to be fugging sturdy, i'm not saying i'm gonna not be careful with it, but even if it was literally in my daily carry bag it would have the opportunity to have an even bigger fall, nevermind be squashed by text books and what not. HDDs are just shitty impractical tech when it comes to portability, i'd rather use my laptop off a MicroSD card desu

Is there a convenient cloud service you can stream music from without paying ?

Most are made under the expectation that your only looking to use it for a place to store backups and not use it for full time read/write activity. So based on that then yeah under full time loads the heat build up would kill the drive. Also you gotta really check the specs, most drives inside are piss poor low rpm version or made for archive write once deals.

I like the 8TB Easystores for those NAS REDs.

i have two external hard drives for my shitty server one is the picture 4tb wd drive the second is a 2tb seagate drive both 2.5 inch i have had the seagate operating 24/7 for atleast 7 months now with absolutely zero issues the wd onbe i have only have for a couple weeks but it also seems decent. they do get quite warm but i doubt that it is problematic

dude do you know how weak platters are they are worse than glass a harddrive would never survive a drop even if it is only 20cm you should just be careful

yeah, which is why i strictly refuse to use hard drives now, i'd rather pay $80 a year for 1tb of storage to last rather than $20 for a hard drive that lasts less than a day

Only if you host the music in your home network and open the ports to the world.

You can use something like this:
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My +10yo drive enclosure died on me and I'm on the market for a new eHDD (20/30$ more I can buy a fucking 2.5" eHDD instead of a enclosure).
Is there a current meme going on or should I just get whatever is top on Amazon?

Get an SSD or an HDD with a protective enclosure you monkey

Yeah man totally, That's why I don't eat eggs anymore, they kept breaking when I threw them into my fridge.

get rugged enclosures, if you are using it frequently and traveling a lot with it, get an ssd with a rugged enclosure, some are even water resistant. for home use, get a nas

I have the SSD in OP pic. ~250GB version. Thing heats up like a bitch when you run a VM off of it.

>I put a heatsink of my hdds, like hat.
:^)

>if something can't survive that tiny bit of damage then it's not even worth having in the first place
"I am a child and require childproof HDDs"
From now on Sup Forums will be known as /b+/.

> or a regular hdd and put it in an external case
This. USB 3.0 on My Passports is soldered.

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You can set up Plex on popular cloud storage services like Dropbox and Google Drive. I’ve never used it, so I can’t report on how well it works

don't they end up deleting your shit even if you encrypt it with fuse?

>120TB
For what purpose?

It's a small 2.5" external, it doesn't get that hot to begin with.

No? Why would they delete it? Plex doesn’t care where you get your media from

not plex, google drive has been terminating accounts of people using it as a seedbox

im pretty sure mine stopped working. i got it like a month ago.

>I always keep a spare heatsink from old computers sitting on top of it.

I got one because it was cheap 4GB, it was ok but then died.
I hacked it open, scavenged the HDD itself, installed into my PC via SATA and it keeps working for me.

Who the fuck needs an HDD outside of a PC anyway? Need portable storage get a flash drive.

I've done this twice. I'll never buy one again. External drives are made with the cheapest shit components they can get away with using. A lot of new external drives had gotten rid of the sata and power connectors from the actual drives to stop people doing this. They knew people were buying these cheap and taking them out.

So now when your drive dies (and it will) it's gone for good.

>63998845
>For what purpose?
Probably a RAID0 setup

Im damn glad I picked up a 4TB usb 3.0 when I did.

WD 4TB 2.5" so just one cable, no seperate power/

It should hold me over for now but if I ever find myself wanting more storage I would go with internal 3.5".

I hope you got a really great price, why not go with a server rack and internal HDDS?

Anyone have experience with pic related? I herd to stay away from Seagate, but its reviews of newegg and amazon are decent.

Also taking recommendations

>Not having bought a 12 bays NAS filled with 8TB disks

Are you retarded ?

Loli porn and pizza.

I have multiple drives like this, and they all work fine for me. I've had a couple for a couple of years.

Using it as a seedbox is vastly different from using it as a Plex server. I would assume that since it is an officially supported version of Plex that Google Drive has sanctioned it

>buying a 12 bay NAS for 8TB drives rather than 10TB

These are made for people that want a whole lot of cheap storage in a nice case that they can take with them. This is ideal for me because my main machine is my laptop due to how much I travel, but my laptop only has space for one 2.5 inch hard disk inside which is occupied by an SSD already.

I was just on Amazon tonight and had my eye on that exact drive. The 1TB version is like $50 and that's way more than what I need. But there's also a 250GB SSD version that's a lot smaller and much, much faster. It's also shock resistant because of a lack of moving parts. The only con is that I would be paying twice as much for 1/4 the storage. I really like the form factor and the speed of the SSD one but I only need to offload like 100GB of stuff from my internal disk, so I don't know if I can justify paying more for the SSD. It's for long term storage too, as in I won't be running an OS or programs off the drive. It's just to hold the files until I need them again.

Pic related is the cute little SSD my passport drive.

Got the 3TB version of this running in my server, 4 of them in a raid 5 config for almost 2 yrs now. No smart flags,no errors of any kind at all. Same server has got two 2TB older model seagate drives with 2 yrs on them still going strong as well as a 1TB version for the os drive

Good one

So youre saying I should just continue to buy HGST, right? All right then.