What's the usecase for one of these?
>>102429449Open it up and put it into your homeserver
>>102429449To be a black disco duro externo de sobremesa.
>>102429474Why on Earth would you do that? It's much more expensive than a normal one.
>>102429449>361 EurosWith that money you can buy four 4TB small drives from the same company, OP.
>>102429505>>102429449This (actually the WD My Book but it's the same thing inside) was like 250€ 3-4 years ago. Check camelcamelcamel.com if you don't believe me.
>>102429449Normies backing up files from their laptop
>>102429449>negro
linux desktop enthusiasts use it for storing their "special" files
>>102429735>he doesn't own a USB 3 negrongmi
>>102429449>What's the usecase for one of these?Use case is to add additional storage to a laptop via USB cable.
>>102429449Is that a single hard-drive? Seems risky to put all your stuff on a single one, I'd feel safer if it had like 32 500GB disks inside.
>>102429702>>102429929But why wouldn't you just buy one like pic related? Why does this big vertical external HDD exist?
99% of home computers run off single hard-drive for 20 years interruptedyet NASfags drives fail in 2-3 yearscoincidence?
>>102429948Man idk I'm just trying to help you out here
>>102429948Because 1. they don't make small ones in 16TB capacity 2. big one is faster
>>102429449porn
>>102429818still too slow
>>102429449Shucking maybe
>>102429960one gets casual use and the other is abused to fuck
>>102429960>99% of home computers run off single hard-drive for 20 years interruptedGiven how many people post about there "5 year old HDD/SSD" that has well under 20K hours, home users don't really use their HDD as much as you think.Meanwhile NAS and enterprise drives are actually on 24/7
>>102432237So enterprise drives are worth the money?
>>102429449>360 eurobux for 16tbwhen did hdds become so expensive
>>102429505>Why on Earth would you do that?Redundancy. A dozen of those are more resilient to data loss than one server with a dozen bare drives.
>>102429818I need a blanco, so it actually fucking works
>>102432270Depends on how adamant you are about buying "retail"Drives that where originally slated to go to a big hyperscaler like Google, Amazon, Facebook, etc can be pretty cheap on ebay, sometimes they are the cheapest for a given capacity, but you don't get an official warranty.Retail versions of those drives like WD Golds are more expensive than the NAS versions but get the same warranty as the NAS ones, so not really worth it in any shape.
