Recommended external hard drives for backup?

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I am looking to backup my NextcloudPi - any recommendations for reliable 1 or 2 T external HD??
Thank you

p.s
I suppose any advice on what i should take in consideration would also be welcomed.

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I personnally use a
WD My Book 25EE (4004)
that was given to me.

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As long as you don’t buy them at Wish… you should be fine with any major brand.

Personally, I never had any issues with Seagate drives.

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As @Mina said, any major brand should do the job.

I personally like to use the ones from WD’s MyBook series. They are pretty cheap, but also reliable, especially if you go beyond 8TB capacity per drive.

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thank you
that’s great

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Hey @Sherab welcome to you from all of us :slightly_smiling_face:

I bought this from a local shop but available everywhere and works with gnulinux free software so should be okay with all distros. It surprised me how fast file transfers can be.

https://storage.toshiba.com/consumer-hdd/external/canvio-basics

Box says USB 3.0 but it is backwards compatible with USB 2.0 and works just great with all my computers. :nerd_face:

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Thank you for your welcoming @Andy2

I often used itfoss website - and when I realize it has this forum I immediatly signed up.-
The person behinde ITFOSS is a cool person.
nice being here.
thanks for your suggestion

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