<div dir="ltr"><div>I find vendors sell their defective garbage drives mostly as "external drives" as they only offer a year warranty, and most any external enclosure/drive ala costco always died just after a year. Almost like they knew. NOT recommended, any of them.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Do yourself a favor, buy a decent drive with a warranty, and get an external enclosure yourself to put it in yourself. I'm not even sure what is good for spinners these days, but check backblaze drive review assessments. I tend to stay with HGST/Hitachi, even though they are owned by Western Digital these days, they still tend to suck less. I've only lost one HGST drive in the past 5 years or so from my synology raid.<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-for-2020/">https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-for-2020/</a></div><div><br></div><div>-mb</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 1:37 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Wonderful! I was deleting things and elated home.<br>
Now I have plenty of room.... until I restored with my backups.\<br>
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In any case, what is a good external drive?<br>
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