I keep hearing people say that hard drives won’t last long and to always have backups. But if it is like that, that means you would have to be buying drives consistently? Has anyone ever had a hard drive work for them successfully for a decade or even more where they wouldn’t have to be buying more?

If you don’t have the money for the most amount of terabytes there is but you can find it in your budget if you buy it pre-owned.

Apart from having more storage capacity, why not just get a complete portable one that uses 5V and doesn’t requires you to power it with a plug? What advances does a big 12V external hard drive have against a smaller fully portable 5V HDD?

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I have a Seagate One Touch 5TB and it’s great but I want another one probably with more storage but from what I’ve seen only Seagate’s Expansion Desktop drives offer more storage than 5TB.

If your external hard drive is fully disk encrypted, is it normal that when you connect your drive to the computer, it doesn’t show up where you normally find all of your connected devices, that i’ll only show up once you mount it and decrypt it in VeraCrypt? Is that a good thing?