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I record way too many TV shows, and I never get around to either editing out commercials and compressing them or deleting them. So I wind up with lots of archived data filling my drives, that I do want to access, but I don't need to access quickly. A Seagate SMR drive would seem ideal, except that I want the data stored reasonably reliably, and I see a lot of failure reports with this drive. I've also had too many bad experiences with external HDDs to trust them.
So, experts, what do you suggest? Are tape drives in a similar price range? Should I just get a BD-RW drive and a bunch of disks? Or is the above Seagate more reliable than it looks?
Edit: Oh, I suppose I could do online storage, but my Internet's fairly slow.
So, experts, what do you suggest? Are tape drives in a similar price range? Should I just get a BD-RW drive and a bunch of disks? Or is the above Seagate more reliable than it looks?
Edit: Oh, I suppose I could do online storage, but my Internet's fairly slow.