I read something about once-reliable sites that would tell you the best [tech thing] now not giving legit reviews, being paid to say good things about certain companies, and I do not remember where I read that or which sites, so I figured I’d bypass the issue and ask people here. I’m pretty new to anything near the level of complexity and technical details that I see on datahoarder communities. I know about the 321 backup rule and that’s it. This is me trying to find something to hold copy 3 of my data.
Backblaze has the best data on hard drive reliability. You’ll need to buy your own USB caddy to put the drive in.
Even if you’re not shucking, shucks.top has the current best prices for WD drives.Edit: see @gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works’s reply below, apparently shucks.top is gone.
Actually, read the notice at the top - looks like Amazon didn’t like it and shut down the api token. It suggests going to diskprices.com.
oh… 😐 thank you for the heads up