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Thinking about buying more storage. Warn me of the lemons! (kbin.social)

submitted 6 months ago by fiat_lux@kbin.social to c/buildapc@lemmy.world

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Anyone got any recommendations or warnings about specific hdd / ssd / storage brands or models at the moment? Thinking about buying another drive instead of being smart and cleaning up my files. I've been pretty happy with Samsung but I've heard they had a clunker of a drive with high failure rates lately. HDD, SSD and I think I have an extra spare M2 nvme slot on my motherboard, so all recommendations are welcome. Price isn't a huge concern, but I don't feel the need to drop a thousand dollars on a single 22TB drive, anything 5TB and above will do fine for now.

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[–] c10l@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

Don’t squeeze them into your eyes. Don’t rub them on your skin and go to the sun. Don’t squeeze them on open wounds.

I think this is enough warnings about lemons for now.

As for storage advice, check Backblaze’s reports on drive failures!

https://backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q1-2024/