So excited to consolidate my mess of drives and get a big boost to my storage.
Then my two bricked Seagates beat the odds.
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Don't forget to back up to other additional drives!
Consolidating all your data into one drive is very convenient, but if you aren't backing it all up then it's only a matter of time until you lose everything. If you're gonna have a bunch of small drives hanging out you can use them as a backup. You could even set them up into a RAID, but I've never actually done that so i can't vouch for it
You know what, that would be a perfect mother or fathers day gift every year for any data hoarder. Happy Parity Day!
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I second this! I hope you get many years of service from your drive, but I haven't had much luck with Seagate, personally.
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Since this will only be the beginning bookmark this for later :P
Lol it's so funny you say that. I got this because I've been wanting to consolidate 4 different drives in my gaming pc (about 5TB total). But as soon as I saw this I thought 'why should I get rid of perfectly good drives? I can have 17TB instead of 12'. It feels like I've got the seeds of a bad habit growing lol.
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Not as appreciated nowadays but I still use spinning disk for bulk media storage
I just recently went entirely HDDless in my desktop. I have a singular 10tb HDD external drive that I connect as needed, but I'm considering just moving it over to my NAS since all it does at this point is store dashcam footage.
Also great for storing lesser played large games, to transfer to ssd when ready to play again.
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