Hard drives

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:
ampache.org