What is the best external hard drive in terms of privacy, security and storage capacity? Should I wait for a better one coming soon?

I’m looking for minimum 2tb of space (the more the merrier), don’t mind the cost

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      3 years ago

      You often can’t shuck the Element drives and they have proprietary controllers.

      I’d go for a proper enclosure.

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          3 years ago

          You can always do what you proposed with a 3.5" hard drive from WD too which are very cheap.

          yep, I’d recommend that. There’s also a list somewhere which shows you which drives can be shucked (=removed from their enclosure, without having proprietary connectors), but I can’t find it right now.

          I’d never buy non-standard controller drives.