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looks great . i bought a 1TB seagate HDD years ago and it is $70.
HDD's price is opposite to SSD's . heard that SSD's price is expensive as fuck theseday.
Both Amazon and Newegg have them for around $70 USD after rabate, you should check this out. Reviews seems favorable.
I bought 2 of the seagate 2tb expansions drives a few years back and they've been spot on. Inside was a Samsung M9T 2TB ST2000LM003 9.5mm SATA drive which I removed one for use in a htpc. I read somewhere they're new external drives will be using non sata connections so drives won't be removable.
Only WD and Toshiba use a non-sata (drive to usb 3.0) connection. Seagate still uses sata drives. I've shucked a number of the 4TB models in the last couple months and all of them contain a normal 2.5" sata drive.
@Ympker better be fast before sold out: https://www.saturn.de/de/product/_seagate-stdr2000200-backup-plus-slim-1794128.html
Ah thanks. This one looks nice but I guess the Amazon offer is also quite tempting and no need to rush it. I will keep it in mind though and order tonight
2TB for 99€ is certainly not a bad price. Just do it!
If you want a lot more than 2TB, you can also consider buying a USB3 SATA docking station. I've once bought a cheap Sharkoon one and I'm using it with two slow cheap 4TB disks. I'd highly recommend that!
I bought the 4TB Seagate Expansion drive on Ebay (neweggcanada) for $98.37. It's been great in my raspberry pi as a homeserver, 1 wire does all the work. (Power and data)
I have one of these 2TB Backup plus slims since 2yrs plugged in 24/7.
I attribute their uptime to the Samsung platters inside . It's probably the only consumer spinner I trust from Seagate, right now.
I stopped buying out-of-the-box external hdd's due the drive speed is a hit or a miss.
Occasionally you get a 7200RPM drive but often WD and Seagate put a cheaper 5400 RPM drive in the fancy case. Which makes backing up taking longer than necessary and deduplication is hell.
Protip: Buy a HDD docking station and separate 10000RPM disk.
Noob buy SSD
I bought a 3TB External HDD for like 70 Euros in Portugal, 2 years ago. Seems expensive that 2TB HDD, unless that has additional features that mine doesn't.
Mine was bought on a sale tho.
It's 2.5".
Huh. That explains it, my bad.
2 TB SSDs are more expensive than 10000RPM 2TB+ HDDs
@Ympker it seems it's a 2"5 i would never buy a 2"5 unless i don't have the choice.
It seems cool but its lifetime is shorter than a 3"5.
My advice : only buy it if you need to travel with it.
I seen 4TB WD hard drive for almost the same price, you can get some solution to convert it to external. Personally I trust more WD brand.
You could hold out for a good deal on a 4TB HGST. Price should only be slighlty more than other 4TB, but a whole another level of quality.
Im not in a rush so why not