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Red Pro Hard Drive
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Stream, backup, share, and organize your digital content with a NAS and WD Red Plus drives designed to effortlessly share content with the devices at your home or business. NASware...
Western Digital Red Hard Drive
The WD Red Plus WD20EFPX 2 TB Hard Drive is the perfect storage solution for your desktop computer. With its generous 2 TB capacity you'll have plenty of space to store all your im...
Western Digital WD Elements Portable Hard Drive
Is your laptop slowing down because its internal hard disk is almost full? Then it's time for you to get this Elements external hard drive from WD and transfer all your important f...
Western Digital WD My Passport Portable Hard Drive
Introducing the my Passport 5TB Black from WD! This sleek and compact external hard drive is designed to provide you with ample storage space and convenience wherever you go. With...
Western Digital WD My Passport Ultra Portable Hard Drive
Western Digital WD Elements Desktop Hard Drive
WD Elements desktop storage with USB 3.0 offers reliable, high-capacity, add- on storage, fast data transfer rates and universal connectivity with USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 devices. The...
Western Digital WD My Book Desktop Hard Drive
Complete Backup My Book desktop storage comes equipped with WD Backup software and Apple Time Machine compatibility to help make sure your photos, videos, music and documents don't...
Why r/BuyItForLife recommends WD
6 mentions from real owners
- #1Sep 5, 2025
Why did we accept that security cameras need monthly fees to work properly?
I'd personally never buy a camera system unless I could keep all of the data locally and under my complete control. There have been too many data leaks and misuses of data by various companies to believe that they would handle things responsibly and when it comes to my private life, whether it be a front door camera or an indoor security camera I want to know that I'm the only one who can access it For a more BIFL solution it's not incredibly difficult to buy stand alone wifi enabled cameras that can connect and save their footage to a NAS (basically a home data server), and high capacity HDDs are super cheap nowadays. You could buy an 8TB WD Red Plus NAS drive for less than you spent on three years of cloud storage that almost certainly came with less storage than that. Yes building a NAS will add some upfront cost but if you build it out of reliable parts or buy a pre-built one from a reliable brand it should last a very long time without breaking the bank
View on Redditopen_in_new - #2Sep 5, 2025
Why did we accept that security cameras need monthly fees to work properly?
You can still get HDDs for about $20/TB. Even a good quality NAS drive like a WD Red Plus only costs $160 for 8TB right now, and you can get even better prices if you're willing to risk a lesser brand or a used drive (the vast majority of which will be totally fine)
View on Redditopen_in_new - #3Sep 5, 2025
Why did we accept that security cameras need monthly fees to work properly?
Even an 8TB NAS quality HDD is less than $180 right now (WD Red Plus 8TB if you're curious)
View on Redditopen_in_new - #4Sep 5, 2025
Why did we accept that security cameras need monthly fees to work properly?
I have a 60tb system for my business, since we sometimes need to refer back at least 2 months on work performed. Plus I'm constantly upgrading drives. I've had a stint of bad WD purples. Using Skyhawk drives which appear to last longer. I think for residential use 2 to 8tb is about right depending on resolution.
View on Redditopen_in_new - #5Jun 6, 2025
HDD's for long term storage.
A pair of SERVER grade HDDs, at least 4 terabytes capacity, each. Configure them in RAID 1. This copies the data to both drives simultaneously, so you have two copies. If you primarily use a laptop, you'll need a NAS (network attached storage) setup with its own enclosure.
View on Redditopen_in_new - #6Jun 6, 2025
HDD's for long term storage.
Personally, I would buy two 4TB HDDs and mirror them, I would buy enterprise-quality drives made for servers and surveillance. They're made to run hard for very long periods and tend to be more reliable, though they tend to be more noisy. If you have more money, add another drive and have 3 copies. Most RAID cases have a "mirror" setting, so just load them up and run them on an automatic backup every night. The more backups you have the better, and HDDs are recoverable if they fail, SSDs are not.
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