I recently cancelled my Dropbox subscription, and will now be running local backups instead. For that purpose I need an external hard drive.

It seems most companies (Western Digital, Kingston, Seagate) are American, with Japanese Toshiba occasionally showing up in my search results.

Does anyone know of/have any experience with European storage manufacturers? If not I guess Toshiba will have to do. :)

  • @Thorry84@feddit.nl
    6•3 days ago

    Remember, a local backup isn’t a real backup. I have setup a storage system with my brother. He stores his stuff on my server and I store my stuff on his. All encrypted and synced daily, plus we do periodic verify to prevent bit rot. When we need expansion we pool our money and both expand our servers the same amount.

    • cabbageOPEnglish
      2•3 days ago

      Yeah, I’m planning to keep a second backup in the office once I’ve figured it out at home. I think that should be sufficient. Will still keep it local in a networking sense, but I’m walking back and forth with my laptop.