I have a 14tb MyBook that is displaying worrying signs, and after contacting WD they are willing to RMA the drive, but I’d need to send it to them. I have 7-8tb of vital info on that drive that I need to get off it soon, was about to buy another 14tb drive to use as a backup but I don’t have the money free atm.
Anyone know what the cheapest 14-16TB drives are atm? Or have other advice on what to do in my situation? I could get an elements 14tb for about €250, can’t seem to find any recertified/reconditioned. Benefit of that is that once my MyBook is RMA’d I’d be able to use that as a permanent backup then.
My location is Ireland, and I’d love to buy the fucker ASAP because I fear this 8-ish month old MyBook is about to fail.
I have 7-8tb of vital info on that drive that I need to get off
If it’s vital, it should already have a backup.
You don’t always get warning signs; especially with a laptop or portable drive. They can fall off a table at any point and never get back up.
Not sure about Ireland but if your drive only has 8TB used you could get a 10TB short term, might save a third of the cost.
You do need backups long term. Research 3-2-1 backups.
Look for the best deals and the best $/TB ratio. Not really much other advices rather than having more backup copies next time.
Found WD recertified MyBook drives at €200/14tb, so €14.28/tb and I bought two for backup, working towards a proper 3-2-1
Best Buy 0% credit card? Idk what’s in Ireland though lol
What makes you think it will fail? I’ve seen certain images of people with crazy three letter symbols for everything and they point to one and say that’s bad or something…I dunno if that’s the kind of worry or just a bug in your system. There can always be a software error hanging around in the system making things slow. Maybe try to free up some space on the drive or defragment it if it’s acting very slow. Or switch to a different operating system.