16TB Seagate Expansion Desktop USB 3.0 External Hard Drive

Mine is still working after 10 years. I agree if you are serious on the backup, Raid is the water to go. //@anonymous: Yes, it's very dangerous to use this kind of drives, because they are easy to fail, and if you don't have another copy of the backed-up files, you are doomed. If you really want a huge storage, just buy two same hds and RAID them.

Yes, it's very dangerous to use this kind of drives, because they are easy to fail, and if you don't have another copy of the backed-up files, you are doomed. If you really want a huge storage, just buy two same hds and RAID them.

Don't buy this junk. I have two 8TB external drives, which exactly look like the one in picture. Both completely stopped working within 1 year. The typical failure sign is that it took more than 7 days to backup ~1TB of data. I didn't use this junk frequently. I just used the drives for backup.