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what hardware should I buy for storage purposes? what brands?

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I own several external 2.5’’ HDDs on the 1 TB range where I save my data. Samsung has worked well for me, but now I need more space.

One option would be to buy an external SSD instead of HDD.

Another would be to get an external NVME, but so far I haven’t found cases for them.

Nowadays we even have 1 TB flash drives, should I get one of these instead?

I could also buy 2 0.5 TB micro SD cards instead.

So many options make it difficult to decide.

What brands and technologies do you recommend?

Software is going to be debian based.

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Interesting. Yes for sure, the amount of writes over time is really important.

I find it crazy how HDDs can spin all the time, so damn fast. So I just generally dont trust them.

Like, 7200rpm, that is 3.784.320.000 (3,7 Billion) times a year. Just scary.

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