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What are your go-to brands for any electronic, networking, computing accessories or peripherals? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 years ago by Macaroni9538@lemmy.ml to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Hi all, since ya'll are self hosters, I'm sure you all deal with all sorts of different pieces of hardware, accessories, peripherals, and what not; just wondering if you could please share your favorite, solid, "go to" brands for overall things you need for your setup such as cables (all types), adapters, dongles, power accessories, hubs & docks, flash drives, you name it! I'm sure it varies depending on exactly what type of equipment you're looking for but just looking for overall good brands to stick with for such things. I obviously know the main ones like Anker, Cable Matters, Ugreen, maybe Belkin, Idk. Would love to hear your recommendations! Thank you

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[-] callouscomic@lemm.ee 8 points 3 years ago

There was a time I'd avoid Western Digital cause everything they made fails, and I mostly leaned toward SanDisk cause they were very reliable, and well, my avoidance list got larger.

[-] Macaroni9538@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 years ago

Hmm I always though western digital was pretty decent for hard drives?

[-] bemenaker@lemmy.world 3 points 3 years ago

They are. Follow the backblaze drive failure reports for quality checks.

[-] jo3shmoo@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 years ago

I've had the exact opposite experience historically. Of 5 Seagate drives I've purchased over the last decade or so, only 1 of them is still working. Meanwhile 25+ WD hard drives are still in production over the same time with only 1 that started throwing smart errors a couple years back.

[-] sic_semper_tyrannis@feddit.ch 2 points 3 years ago

Western Digital owns SanDisk now fyi

[-] callouscomic@lemm.ee 1 points 3 years ago

That's the joke.

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