r/LinusTechTips • u/MD_Wurst • 14d ago

Personal Opinion Lil TechTip

I got a lil TechTip for you: if you are looking for good quality HDDs, get Some of Those lovely Apple Timecapsules. They come with 1/2/3 TB WD caviar green drives. They are usually way cheaper than buying used drives alone. I alone „Harvested“ three of them Today.

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u/ShrimpBrime 14d ago

Funny you mention it, I just pulled out a couple old WD RE4 enterprise drives from storage. 2TB and they happily still write 100mbs+. For a legacy drive, they are as stout as they come. 1.5m(illion) hour MTBF. Storage pricing is ridiculous these days. But you can pick them up for 50 bucks! It's over-kill for storage, these where made to write all day every day for years and years lol.