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TreasonousBastard

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5. I have one ancient Seagate and two WD external drives and they all work fine...
Fri Dec 29, 2017, 03:45 PM
Dec 2017

That, of course means little in the grand scheme of things, but goggling around, it depends upon whom you ask. Hitachi seems to have an edge over both of them.

They're cheap enough you might just buy two. Or three. And buy a few TBs of cloud storage.

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I have one ancient Seagate and two WD external drives and they all work fine... TreasonousBastard Dec 2017 #5
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