Newegg.com - Western Digital 16TB External/Desktop USB Drive for $260
World Backup Day is this week, where you are encouraged to make a copy of your important files, especially your irreplaceable photos, videos, and documents.
Western Digital Elements 16TB External/Desktop USB Hard Drive for $350, and code
93XQR56 applies $90 off.Normally about
$327.
The USB interface plugs into a Mac or PC, and the 16TB provides a massive amount of backup disk capacity.Backed by a 2-year warranty.
In our opinion, hard drives provide excellent balance between reliable storage at an affordable cost.Owning a large-capacity hard drive is cheaper than the recurring cost of cloud storage, and your files remain private by keeping the hard drive in a safe place.Many years down the road, when your hard drive fails, a recovery service can restore its data easier than if it were stored on an SSD.
For comparison,
Amazon Prime members get
unlimited photo storage including with Prime membership, however video storage is limited to just 10GB and costs
$60/yr for 1 TB.The price goes way up for storing larger amounts of files.
If you want to
extract the hard drive to put inside a desktop computer, that will void the 2-year warranty but
saves $60 when buying internal 3.5" 16TB hard drive.
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