Recommend me a external storage drive ?

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  1. Strat4ever

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    There is no HDD that is 100% perfect and will last forever. the M-DISC is supposed to last over 100 years but it's capacity is only 100GB and the discs cost $30. each I have 4 discs for what is personal and is most important to preserve.
     
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    Seagate Expansion STKM5000400 5TB!?!
     
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    Someone already said it, but sadly large and cheap SSDs (usually SATA3) are the next big victim of the AI inflation after RAM.
    Bye bye Samsung, it was good while it lasted...

    Talking about HDDs, I usually go for 2TB. Partly because of the mentioned disaster when a huge drive breaks, although it's totally fine having them as long as you double backups. And partly because I'm staying away from UEFI as long as I can. No UEFI means MBR with 2GB max capacity.
     
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