I mainly get my content from private trackers and I want to invest in an external hard drive to put all of my movies and shows on. What external hard drive would you recommend with a decent upload rate? Should I consider an SSD?
For seeding? Nah. Not unless you have a ton of upload and loads of peers making requests.
Get something that has an internal mirror, that’ll give you double the read throughput AND some redundancy.
How much space do you think you’ll need? What type of redundancy systems are you planning to put into place, or even still do you plan to put any redundancy systems in place? Is there a specific reason you’d like to go with an external hard drive over setting up an internal raid array of some sort? Was your plan simply to just have an external drive plugged into your pc through USB or USB-C?
I think these would be my main questions before I could feel comfortable pointing you in any directing, since naming a brand name or specific drive while efficient probably wouldn’t be good for you in the long run.
I just recently got fed up with this stupid “WD MyCloud” box (AVOID) and stripped the drive out and put it in a $20 USB drive adapter, which works PERFECTLY.
This is the drive adapter: https://a.co/d/1BdB0Oa
So my recommendation is one of those plus whichever hard drive is priced right. There is a website that tracks hard drive prices in dollars per gigabyte, not sure of the address right now.
