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External Drive (recommendations needed)
I am in need of two external 5TB drives. I have searched for recommendations online, but I have neither the technical knowledge nor the experience to separatee the good from the bad information.
I recently bought a Toshiba X300 5TB drive based on presumed reliability and mostly favorable reviews. I have been having nothing but problems with formatting and ejecting the drive. It's also constantly making clicking noises in a way I have never heard any drive make other than a defective one. So it's going back.
I need two 5TB drives:
USB 3.0 or 3.1.
optimized for intermittent use (I will use them no more than maybe once a day, mostly less often)
I prefer a bare drive that I can put in a fan-equipped enclosure of my choice over a drive that comes with an enclosure
reliability is paramount since these drives will hold a photo library.
one of these drives will be my pc's backup drive, the other one will the external drive's backup.
I am grateful for any recommendations based on personal experience.