Best BlackFriday Deals on Lifetime Cloud Storage OR Portable SSD?

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Hello everyone! As I am on my journey to strengthen my Privacy game, I am currently looking to purchase either a lifetime 2TB cloud storage plan or a 2TB portable SSD during this Black Friday month to store all my personal files. I am open to either option, depending on whichever is more affordable. I would appreciate hearing about any worthwhile options available. Thank you! :slight_smile:

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Lifetime cloud storage.

Seems nice.

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If you do buy an external SSD, don’t buy a SanDisk one :slight_smile:

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Slightly off topic but what’s a good value external HDD, 2 TB or bigger? Which brands to avoid because they’re either bad quality or overpriced?

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OP, if you want info on deals, it might help folks to know your region. Obviously physical goods can fluctuate by region, but so can digital (some services change price/deals on currency).

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Even though I resist to move cloud, last year my cat hit the cable of my hard drive while connected to my laptop and I lost everything. After formatting and using a data recovery tool, I recover most of them, but I don’t trust a hard drive anymore. If you would buy two or three hard drives and apply changes on the spare one, maybe you can proceed with har drives.

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Oh, wow! Thanks for the warning. I checked out those articles you shared, and I’m definitely ruling out both SanDisk and Western Digital.

What’s your take on Transcend, especially the Transcend ESD310 SSD 2TB? Thank you @Jonah

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I haven’t heard anything bad about Transcend personally, they’re likely fine. I have had good experiences with Samsung and Crucial. If I were to buy an external SSD today I’d probably buy a Samsung T7 Shield.

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Whenever I buy storage products, I compare the percentage of 1-star ratings on Amazon. I take it as a proxy for the products’ failure rate.

Also, as someone said either here or in Privacy Guides, remember that it’s the company’s lifetime, or sometimes the product’s lifetime, not your lifetime.

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Or in the case of Windscribe, it’s Vladamir Putin’s lifetime… :sweat_smile:

There is a company (cloud storage provider) that used to keep and publish statistics on drive failure rates. If they still do that, its a great resource to get some general ideas about drive reliability. The company name is Backblaze. Might want to search and see what you can find.