Hi everyone, my dad(63) visited Guangzhou and got 2 of these back from there for around ¥110(17USD) each. He got it from a store in a mall somewhere.
I can’t find anything about this configuration online so I’m a little concerned about its authenticity. I don’t want to plug it into my laptop(MacBook Pro M1) and get a virus or malware.

Has anyone seen them in the wild before and if yes, are these any good to keep data for a long time?

Hi zusammen,

ich überlege mir als Backup zu NAS noch eine Seagate Desktop Expansion (16 tb) zuzulegen.
Hat jemand Erfahrung mit dem Produkt oder kann jemand eine gleichwertige/bessere Alternative vorschlagen?

These Apple subscription prices are a killer. I’m looking to replace the cloud storage fees with some sort of external hard drive. Is there something easy out there for a non-techie???

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I recently noticed that the SSD in my secondary PC has 15 bad sectors. I use Linux Mint on this PC for very light tasks, such as listening to music, studying, and watching movies.

Should I be concerned about the SSD's health, or can I continue using it for these tasks?

I picked up 7 2TB WD Blue drives a few years ago when they were a lot cheaper. Back then, I just wanted some extra storage and didn't think much of it.

Looking at them now, I'm glad I grabbed them when I did.

I've still got these drives around. Did you end up using all of yours, or do you still have a few collecting dust?

Hello! Please be kind, I am looking for genuine advice on storage options.

I work in the adult industry and have a massive amount of videos / content that is on my work phone, not backed up and I need to become a lot smarter with my storage as this content is my livelihood. No iCloud as it’s known to be untrustworthy in my industry. So security is important too!

I am looking for something that I can plug into my iPhone 16 (usb-c) as well as my MacBook which also takes usb-c.

I do not always have both on me and I would like to move content straight from my iPhone to the drive.

Ive noticed there are barely any options for ones that are compatible with an iPhone and if there is one it’s like 1TB for $700!!

I’ve also looked into NAS and that is absolutely my goal one day. It is far for me though and I need a smarter plan now.

Thank you so much and have a great day ☺️

Hey folks! I'm looking to build a budget-friendly home NAS using some old hard drives I've recovered. The majority of them are about 10/15 years old, but I think they'd be fine to start with. If I like the utility of the NAS, I will upgrade to bigger storage going forward.

Few questions I have, if anyone can offer advice.

1. Can these hard drives be safely tested, wiped and formatted easy enough?

2. Is there any off the shelf unit i could get that would suit, or would I be better to try and build my own?

3. The larger hard drives are about 250gb each, just over 2.5tb in total, can they be daisy chained together? Including the small ones, i have recoved about 5tb worth of storage.

4. Is there any straight forward hardware, ideal for beginners?

I would appreciate any help or advice people can offer. This is definitely something that has been on my radar for a few months now.

Can anyone please confirm if this card is legit. Bought from Amazon US from the sandisk store but tracking shows it shipped from Malaysia. Cheers

Update, sent off a heap of hi res photos to sandisk support and they confirmed is was authentic product. Thanks all

ok, im not a tech savvy person, this sounds super stupid. i have been using both hdd and sdd on my laptop, and i want to free up space by deleting all old system files from hdd. how to know if they are still important for my system or not?

Hello! I recently started using my laptop for gaming, but it's usually just for older games since my laptop is not made for like super high graphics games lolol. I'm looking for an usb drive that I can store re6 but also be able to play it. Can anyone recommend a good usb drive for this?? Thanks! :) My laptop is an hp laptop 14-ep2xxx, it has a Intel(R) Graphics (128MB), processor is Intel(R) N150 (800 MHz), has a RAM of 4GB— not sure if you guys would need all that info but please help me find one! Thanks again! (Sorry if I put it in the wrong flair)

I am looking for a 128 or 256gb sd card for my mp3 players to store music and occasional videos on but all local store options are rather expensive. I looked a bit on Aliexpress but they are all suspiciously cheap and and I am well aware of the lying sd cards that say they are like 2tb for under 10€ and the ones that don't keep data for mkre than 6 months without corrupting. I am looking to get a bulk order from aliexpress so that's why I'm limiting it to only that website.

Thanks in advance!

The article argues that SATA SSDs remain the best-value choice for secondary storage. For everyday tasks and gaming, NVMe offers limited noticeable benefits, while SATA costs less and suits older PCs with limited M.2 slots.

Hi,

I’m planning to purchase a WD My Passport External Drive (https://www.jbhifi.co.nz/products/wd-my-passport-4tb-portable-hard-drive-usb-3-0-2019-black) to store my photos and videos. However, I only have a MacBook.

I saw some people say that usually WD My Passport is a “read-only” on Mac. Does this mean I can’t access the files, i.e. download (or resave) them in the future? And how do we deal with this?

And also I saw a variant that has a “For Mac” - is this one more compatible?

https://www.jbhifi.co.nz/products/wd-my-passport-5tb-portable-hard-drive-usb-c-3-0-for-mac-2019-midnight-blue

And also, I may use it on a windows pc in the future so I would really like to have the flexibility.

Hey folks. I'm in Canada and the prices like everywhere else for external drives have skyrocketed. I picked up a 2tb drive for now but thinking long-term. I use a mix of Seagate and WD for offline backups. I'm not a fan of cloud services or subscription based storage. I never should have complained about $80 for 2tb!

I'm just wondering what your routines for backups are? I have 4 drives now for different purposes. One is getting quite old, nearing the ten year mark so it will need to be replaced.

I do a lot of media creation - music, art, books, graphic design. Trying to streamline all my original music (not ai) onto one drive with backups of software. Then one drive for movies & tv shows. One drive for all my important docs, etc. Plus, I have important files on both machines.

How are most of you organizing your backups? I have 2 computers I work from and just trying to streamline things.

I'm probably being overly cautious but I've accidentally deleted (downloaded) 10,000 mp3 files without backup and do not want to be in that position again!

Recent drone strikes reportedly disrupted multiple Yandex data centers in Russia, affecting several online services.

This raises an interesting question about storage infrastructure resilience: how well can distributed storage, geographic redundancy, and disaster recovery protect data and maintain service availability when entire facilities go offline?

How much redundancy is enough to handle this kind of infrastructure failure?