I need a new 2 or 3 TB external hard drive for storage and have been outta the market for basically a decade. Any suggestions or endorsements from y'alls experiences?
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Answer will change depending on if you already have an enclosure, I guess. If 3TB is all you're looking for and you want some (local) redundancy, RAID1 NAS with decent heat dispersion would be pretty neato. Could also get a couple portable 2TB SSDs for under the cost of a single portable 4TB SSD.
Seagate has a 14TB, 8TB for $300, $200 respectively, choice of SATA & USB both on the same models.
Seagate has a 14TB, 8TB for $300, $200 respectively, choice of SATA & USB both on the same models.
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Do you need one that is portable and can easily fit in your microwave incase the FBI comes or do you have important files you need to keep secure? I have a QNAP 4 disc bay with 4 x 8 TB HD in Raid 1.
SuperJail Warden wrote:
Do you need one that is portable and can easily fit in your microwave incase the FBI comes or do you have important files you need to keep secure? I have a QNAP 4 disc bay with 4 x 8 TB HD in Raid 1.
Always a good option.
I don't have any enclosures currently, but nor do I need something super portable to bring a bunch of places with me. Essentially I want to replace the 1TB WD external that's going on 14 years now and give me some space for expansion, but I can't even fathom I'll need 8TB or more anytime soon, even with general size bloat.
IMO if you've kept one hard drive for 14 years, might as well aim for a price point before they generally take the sharp turn upwards. Who knows what your needs will be in the next decade.
Random thought, the 'night light' button in the notifications bar is easily one of the best features in Windows 10, working on late night documents.
mac OSX automatically changes the colour temperature and profile of your screen according to day/night cycle. it's a feature shared with iphones.
That stuff has been spread around on PC for awhile. I recall it from video card software suites, monitor software, and various shaders. Honestly this stuff should have been in some of the earliest versions of Windows. Imagine the eye damage over time from black text on white background on a desktop CRT, alone.
But what can you expect from a company that still has a miserable digital storefront right even in the 2020s.
But what can you expect from a company that still has a miserable digital storefront right even in the 2020s.
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Do you guys change your desktop background? I stopped doing it. My home PC and my MacBook both have the default wallpaper and I am just not bothered by it. But someone pointed it out to me.
Haven't used my desktop in years but it still has the same background as the day I brought it into this world.
My work laptop also has my photos as backgrounds. And my laptop/desktop are synced through onedrive
you sync your desktop photos to the cloud? nice job, idiot, you’re practically creating a drought in italy.
That means I should visit, it poured my first day there
all the rivers have dried up there this year. experiencing a major drought. experts claim it’s because the residents of rome have been downloading too much.
I wonder how much power Dilbert carelessly consumes with storing and transferring photos of cats. 2.2MB is nothing to sneeze at these days!