I want to start data hoarding ebooks and other educational media, this drive will live off the grid most of the time as my area gets a lot of storms and I’ve lost a previous setup to a surge (surge protectors did not help). The drive will not see much reading, mainly writing so I was thinking maybe a surveillance drive might be best. I’m looking at around ~2tb of calculated storage I’ll be needing so maybe a 4tb or 8tb (if possible with my budget) might be better in order to have some more space for future data needs. What are my best options below 150 euro?
New/refurbished Hitachi/hgst 4tb ultrastar. Reliable, reasonably fast, cheap. I have one myself and i love it
What i’m planning to do tho is to buy 8 cheap used 1tb hdds (25eur each) and have them in a raid5 array. If one fails just pop in a new one thanks to redundancy