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Are there certain brands of external hard drives you recommend for local backup?
The WD elements drives are pretty rock solid. The drives themselves are WD reds inside, which are very reliable. The only iffy thing is if the control board (the device that converts USB to the internal drive) can fail, but that's true for any external. It's my go-to backup solution.
theyre the drives i buy and shuck. Love me WD reds.