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Alternatives to the no longer available Time Capsule?
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<blockquote data-quote="Randy B. Singer" data-source="post: 1914758" data-attributes="member: 190607"><p>Folks might find Mike Bombich's (of Carbon Copy Cloner fame) guidance on which external hard drives to purchase illuminating:</p><p></p><p><a href="https://bombich.com/kb/ccc6/choosing-backup-drive" target="_blank">Choosing a backup drive | Carbon Copy Cloner | Bombich Software</a> </p><p></p><p>Folks tend to conflate "internal" drive guidance with "external" drive guidance. </p><p></p><p>Personally, I wouldn't use an *external* Western Digital drive if you gave it to me for free. Contacts in the hard drive recovery industry report that WD's own branded external hard drives have a shockingly high failure rate. They are utter garbage. </p><p></p><p>However, WD makes both some of the very best, and some of the very worst *internal* rotating disk hard drives (RDHD's).</p><p></p><p>WD's *internal* Black series RDHD's are quite good. </p><p></p><p>Western Digital has started to offer their popular *internal* RDHD Red drives in 3 tiers - Red, Red Plus and Red Pro.</p><p></p><p>All of the current (plain) Reds are SMR (shingled magnetic recording) drives and in most opinions should be avoided. </p><p><a href="https://www.techspot.com/news/84914-wd-seagate-toshiba-found-selling-slow-smr-drives.html" target="_blank">https://www.techspot.com/news/84914-wd-seagate-toshiba-found-selling-slow-smr-drives.html</a></p><p>But the Red drives at the Plus level and higher are quite good. </p><p></p><p>Even the Western Digital 2TB-6TB WD Red *internal* NAS drives use shingled magnetic recording:</p><p><a href="https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/04/14/wd-red-nas-drives-shingled-magnetic-recording/" target="_blank">https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/04/14/wd-red-nas-drives-shingled-magnetic-recording/</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Randy B. Singer, post: 1914758, member: 190607"] Folks might find Mike Bombich's (of Carbon Copy Cloner fame) guidance on which external hard drives to purchase illuminating: [URL="https://bombich.com/kb/ccc6/choosing-backup-drive"]Choosing a backup drive | Carbon Copy Cloner | Bombich Software[/URL] Folks tend to conflate "internal" drive guidance with "external" drive guidance. Personally, I wouldn't use an *external* Western Digital drive if you gave it to me for free. Contacts in the hard drive recovery industry report that WD's own branded external hard drives have a shockingly high failure rate. They are utter garbage. However, WD makes both some of the very best, and some of the very worst *internal* rotating disk hard drives (RDHD's). WD's *internal* Black series RDHD's are quite good. Western Digital has started to offer their popular *internal* RDHD Red drives in 3 tiers - Red, Red Plus and Red Pro. All of the current (plain) Reds are SMR (shingled magnetic recording) drives and in most opinions should be avoided. [URL code="true"]https://www.techspot.com/news/84914-wd-seagate-toshiba-found-selling-slow-smr-drives.html[/URL] But the Red drives at the Plus level and higher are quite good. Even the Western Digital 2TB-6TB WD Red *internal* NAS drives use shingled magnetic recording: [URL code="true"]https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/04/14/wd-red-nas-drives-shingled-magnetic-recording/[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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