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

  • OsrsNeedsF2P
    111·
    3 years ago

    What do you mean by privacy/security? Unless you’re going bonkers, that’s down to the software you use with it

    • TorquatusOP
      3·
      3 years ago

      Maybe “privacy” doesn’t fit the question, yeah I agree. Regarding security then, I see that almost any device comes with encryption by default, so I shouldn’t worry too much.

    • TorquatusOP
      2·
      3 years ago

      Very interesting, thanks for the suggestion! I hope it isn’t too hard to setup, I’m not tech savvy

        • TorquatusOP
          2·
          3 years ago

          Ok nice research, although it seems to be as complicated as I thought… I’ll still follow the guide, thanks!

        • ree
          2·
          3 years ago

          Why zfs for a portable device? I’m not sure there is any advantage to that setup.

  • ThreeHopsAhead
    3·
    3 years ago

    Don’t make yourself dependent on the hardware of data storage in the first place. Backup and if you intend to store anything sensible on it, just encrypt it from the beginning so you don’t have to worry about drive failures or erasing data. The drive itself does not matter much then.

    • TorquatusOP
      1·
      3 years ago

      Yeah it seems so, although I’m not convinced of the latest one with fingerprint recognition

  • MedicareForSome
    3·
    3 years ago

    Best buy sells these enterprise-grade WD easystore 14TB for $190 every black friday if you can wait a few months.

  • jollyrogue
    2·
    3 years ago

    I usually buy whatever is cheapest. I have a mixture of Toshiba, WD, Seagate, and Orica enclosures plus misc NVMe SSDs.

    Most of them get formatted and encrypted with LUKS. The Mac ones get formatted and encrypted via APFS.

    • Helix 🧬@feddit.de
      2·
      3 years ago

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

      I’d go for a proper enclosure.

        • Helix 🧬@feddit.de
          1·
          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.

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    1·
    3 years ago

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