best cheapest backup hard drive bang for the buck

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  1. piercekalton

    piercekalton MDL Senior Member

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    #1 piercekalton, Dec 28, 2018
    I was thinking western digital green or red.. I know there's lots of other ones. I'm a little wary of open box and refurbished but not scared of it.
     
  2. MS_User

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    #2 MS_User, Dec 28, 2018
    i assume u talking bout external USB.....to me the cheapest is the WD western digital with decent performance...now u talking about green or red your talking about 6 to 14 TB monster...but their slow and expensive.
     

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    #3 piercekalton, Dec 29, 2018 (OP)
    nah maybe 4. thanks
     
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    #5 MS_User, Dec 29, 2018
    well u be surprise how fast 4 TB can be fill up specially if your to save movies and music u will fill that up quick.
     
  6. piercekalton

    piercekalton MDL Senior Member

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    #6 piercekalton, Dec 30, 2018 (OP)
    yes but that's about all I actually need to backup in order to work with my other drives which are 1 TB each. (I have more space than that but I need at least a 4GB back up)

    edit: I hope things will stream properly from the router. if not one of my computers will be overloaded (they are old PCs)