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Anonymous
09/20/25(Sat)22:33:42 No.106651047

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Anonymous 09/20/25(Sat)22:33:42 No.106651047

What's the best storage for backing up a lot of files and storing more in the future?
I'm thinking of getting WD blue, it's cheaper and seems to fit my case, which is just storing files externally using an adapter
Should I get that, or get different storage instead?

Anonymous
09/20/25(Sat)22:35:53 No.106651067

Anonymous 09/20/25(Sat)22:35:53 No.106651067

>>106651047
your preferred cloud provider

for me, it's iCloud

Anonymous
09/20/25(Sat)22:38:57 No.106651094

Anonymous 09/20/25(Sat)22:38:57 No.106651094

>>106651047
If your usecase is that simple perhaps a easystore when it's on sale?

Anonymous
09/20/25(Sat)22:39:26 No.106651099

Anonymous 09/20/25(Sat)22:39:26 No.106651099

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>>106651047
Picrel.

Anonymous
09/20/25(Sat)22:50:26 No.106651183

Anonymous 09/20/25(Sat)22:50:26 No.106651183

>>106651067
it's not enough
i got terabytes of data I got to store
>>106651094
looking up, easystore seems to go up to 6TB, which is not enough for me to back up
>>106651099
Wow, the stats, ratings and the prices are similar to WD blue
I'm actually unsure if i should get this one instead or not

Anonymous
09/20/25(Sat)22:55:12 No.106651224

Anonymous 09/20/25(Sat)22:55:12 No.106651224

>>106651183
icloud goes up to 12tb

Anonymous
09/20/25(Sat)23:17:31 No.106651411

Anonymous 09/20/25(Sat)23:17:31 No.106651411

daily reminder to not use shitgate. you've been warned.

Anonymous
09/20/25(Sat)23:31:06 No.106651513

Anonymous 09/20/25(Sat)23:31:06 No.106651513

>>106651224
I'm not paying monthly to store my shit

>>106651411
I already got one, but it's smaller and ran out of storage

Anonymous
09/20/25(Sat)23:34:40 No.106651541

Anonymous 09/20/25(Sat)23:34:40 No.106651541

>>106651047
I have like 200TB of WD gold drives, no complaints.

Anonymous
09/21/25(Sun)00:03:40 No.106651788

Anonymous 09/21/25(Sun)00:03:40 No.106651788

>>106651513
take the cost of the harddrives, the cost of the power, the cost of your time, and apportion it monthly

Anonymous
09/21/25(Sun)00:26:09 No.106651980

Anonymous 09/21/25(Sun)00:26:09 No.106651980

>>106651047
He buys storage. pffffttt kek

Anonymous
09/21/25(Sun)00:26:39 No.106651988

Anonymous 09/21/25(Sun)00:26:39 No.106651988

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>>106651047
>backing up a lot of files
Like a lot of small files? Or big ones? Cause if you need to backup 10k small files you're better of with an nvme /sata ssd. Bigger files I would go for a HDD. An HGST or a WD Gold like this anon >>106651541
I got a few Golds myself, great for backing up movies/music collection.

Anonymous
09/21/25(Sun)00:30:18 No.106652006

Anonymous 09/21/25(Sun)00:30:18 No.106652006

>>106651541
What's the difference between WD Blue and Gold?
The Gold seems more expensive for the same sizes

>>106651988
>Like a lot of small files? Or big ones?
i guess a mix of both?
the total media I got to back in like 5-6 terabytes, but the biggest files consist of single digital gigabytes

Anonymous
09/21/25(Sun)00:54:09 No.106652151

Anonymous 09/21/25(Sun)00:54:09 No.106652151

>>106652006
>i guess a mix of both?
>5-6 terabytes
HDD it is then..
just keep in mind lots of small files tend to take a lot longer then just a few big ones. The reason I use a hdd cage is I can get much faster copy speeds (sata6) to my hdd then over usb3.2
I use nvme in usb3 enclosures for backup of my home directory, just plug it in, start rscync backup script, unplug

Anonymous
09/21/25(Sun)01:28:51 No.106652370

Anonymous 09/21/25(Sun)01:28:51 No.106652370

>>106652006
>single digital gigabytes
meant to say single digit gigabytes

>>106652151
Gonna buy SATA HDD then, although I'm unsure how shall i transfer all these files
should i use software or hardware disk cloner?

Anonymous
09/21/25(Sun)01:33:45 No.106652403

Anonymous 09/21/25(Sun)01:33:45 No.106652403

WD blue is SMR so it goes in the trash

Anonymous
09/21/25(Sun)01:37:12 No.106652433

Anonymous 09/21/25(Sun)01:37:12 No.106652433

>>106652370
disk clone copies at disk level, so 1/1 copy. whenever you update you copy entire disk
If you update frequently, better copy at file level.
I'm on linux so I use rsync, works on windows too.
# Music
rsync -r -t -p -o -g -v --progress --delete --stats -h /media/kurt/WD8/music/ /media/kurt/WD3/music/
# Video
rsync -r -t -p -o -g -v --progress --delete --stats -h /media/kurt/WD8/video/ /media/kurt/WD3/video/

Anonymous
09/21/25(Sun)01:43:41 No.106652485

Anonymous 09/21/25(Sun)01:43:41 No.106652485

>>106651047
MEGA goes up to 16 TB

Anonymous
09/21/25(Sun)01:47:56 No.106652503

Anonymous 09/21/25(Sun)01:47:56 No.106652503

>>106651047
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1193057-REG/verbatim_98914_bdxl_100gb_4x_m_disc.html

Anonymous
09/21/25(Sun)02:40:20 No.106652739

Anonymous 09/21/25(Sun)02:40:20 No.106652739

>>106652503
>https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1193057-REG/verbatim_98914_bdxl_100gb_4x_m_disc.html
Not real MDisks anymore

Anonymous
09/21/25(Sun)03:55:51 No.106653113

Anonymous 09/21/25(Sun)03:55:51 No.106653113

Telegram is free but you'd need to make zip files in 2GB parts. I keep it as failsafe even though I have 4TB backed up on two drives and across DVDs.

Anonymous
09/21/25(Sun)04:02:57 No.106653147

Anonymous 09/21/25(Sun)04:02:57 No.106653147

>>106651047
>buy a yueg hdd
>fill with trash you’ll never use
>buy a second and copy the first one
shrimple as

Anonymous
09/21/25(Sun)04:40:57 No.106653270

Anonymous 09/21/25(Sun)04:40:57 No.106653270

>>106651067
>>106651224
>use icloud
>forces itself to download all those files to every device and takes up all their storage anyway
iCloud is built for syncing, not for storage.

Anonymous
09/21/25(Sun)04:51:11 No.106653332

Anonymous 09/21/25(Sun)04:51:11 No.106653332

>>106651047
WD Blue CMR drives. Wait until they come back down in prices. WD just hiked the prices.

https://www.techpowerup.com/341015/western-digital-announces-hdd-price-hikes-effective-immediately

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