The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/EngineSensitive2584 on 2024-10-09 04:59:00.

Lost about 2TBs of DvDs, CDs, and just random videos I’ve backed up from my phone because I dropped the external drive they were on and I can’t afford $450+ for recovery services.

It’s not too big of a deal, most of it made it’s way to my computer through Google drive downloads (which chrome will let me copy the download links and re-download), and I still have the CDs and DvDs that I ripped, so it’s cheaper and easier to just re-download it all to a new drive, but it’s gotten me to be aware that I should probably have more than one copy of this stuff.

I wanted to get a new external drive to put them all on (preferably not a Seagate HDD, which is what the now broken one was, because I hear they’re actually SUPER fragile and not too great), and subscribe to a cloud service so that I have a digital backup that i can pull stuff from if something like this ever happens again. What are some good drives and cloud services that won’t break my bank?