Posted December 25, 2014
Crosmando: My only advice on external data storage is don't. The failure rate of external HDD and USB are both worse than internal HDD. Better off buying an internal HDD and a SATA cable and putting it in your primary computer.
The failure rate is probably worse because people don't know how to handle them properly. What if you can't add an internal drive because you're on a laptop or something else that doesn't support expansion? What if you backup to more than 1 system? What if the backup needs to serve more than a single pc or be used on more than one? An external can handle these. An internal drive is typically cheaper and probably idiot-proofs itself by default than a external from lack of exposure the the owner, but with the disadvantage of losing it's portability.