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Some massive 4TB storage in a not so massive package to store massive things.

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Massively impressive write speeds too.

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Those usb external drives are really fast now, their actually faster than a couple of my internal drives.
Which is quite nice...

I have memories of my first usb drive, it was slow.
 
Werewolf said:
Those usb external drives are really fast now, their actually faster than a couple of my internal drives.
Which is quite nice...

I have memories of my first usb drive, it was slow.
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I still have a few old USB drives, 2-5MB/s write was the norm back then!
 
I picked up one of those as well, comes with 200GB of OneDrive storage for 24 months which is handy, meant I could cancel my Dropbox and save £7 a month.
 
I can't mention where I got it because the mods will probably hand out another infraction for posting competitors :o
 
Modern HDDs are very reliable actually!

But obviously if you throw a HDD about, there's only so much the platter/head shock arms can take.
 
El1te said:
I still remember the times writing ~1mb to a floppy disk taking forever :D:D
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Floppy discs were great compared to my younger days of owning a spectrums 16k/48k and later a commodore C64 with trying to load my games by using a cassette deck



 
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mrk said:
Modern HDDs are very reliable actually!

But obviously if you throw a HDD about, there's only so much the platter/head shock arms can take.
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Not Seagates... even the desktop ones, let alone the mobile ones... I don't touch them with a barge pole anymore.

Admittedly the 3TB desktop drives were the worst ever made...I only have 1 of 6 remaining and both my 3TB external Seagates failed too.

Not heavy load and not moved/shaken...
 
mrk said:
How long ago was this?



You're not wrong.
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~3 years

The 8TB Seagates are showing signs of similar issues.

A lot of the 2.5" Seagate drives are also showing problems.

Not worth the cheapness... they tend to only be ~10% cheaper than WD anyway.

Hitachi offer the best price/performance/reliability at the moment though... although that's for 3.5" drives.
 
 
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