OK FELLOW NERDS!
GIve me your buying tips/deals for the most cost-efficient (highest capacity) hard drive for long-term archival purposes! General advice or specific Canadian sources/able to ship to Canada appreciated!
aaaannnd GO!
#buying #harddrive #HDD
@chris my three rules of thumb:
Study “The Tao of Backups” - at terabyte levels, don’t expect one drive to be infallible.
Do price / # of terabytes math. Or flip the ratio and call it terabytes per $nn. Either way, be aware of the sweet spot. Last time I looked at retail/home drives, $20+ per terabytes at low and high sizes came down to $15 per terabyte around 16T.
Look at Backblaze data. Let them kill bias (e.g., I have avoided seagate, and their data shows a couple seagate 8T drives absolutely _slaying_ on their lifespans and low fail rates. https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q2-2025/
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸
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