Agree 100% about the smart data and hate the excuse of "I have too many drives..." but I guess I understand since they're a wholesaler. They mostly rely on their vendors for the testing. The only words of advise I can give since I was in the same exact shoes as you a couple months ago is this on ebay: stick to known sellers (serverpartsdeals and goharddrives are the big, reliable ones on there), aim for something less than 5 years old since actual powered on hours aren't really reliable like miles on a car, look for a seller warranty and a free return policy not a manufacturer warranty since they were kinda a bitch to deal with, make sure you message them about packaging the drives correctly (bubblewrap + antistatic bag + box) can't tell how many of them thought it was fine sending a drive in a yellow bubblewrap envelope, and the biggest one is multiple drives since you already have that covered I don't need to explain it. For 4tb I wouldn't go anywhere above 35$ USD think that's 33€ but could be wrong. I wish you luck
Cathode ray dude did a great video on this the 90s were a magical time. There's also a dvd version iirc
Gosh darn spudtacular, but for real thank you for the help. Think I was honestly overthinking everything. I have a standard envelope at home so I'll just use that and get the stamp at the post office. It'll be my first time sending out something in years so hopefully I do things correctly, haha
Yeah you're right. Appreciate it thank you for your help
Oh god thank you was thinking the same thing regarding the return address. I think I'll be fine with amazon knowing that I paid for a VPN as long as mullvad doesn't know about me but if the mailing process works smoothly I'll continue going that route instead. I am really confused though on what stamps and envelopes should be used? Keep hearing "oh use 3 forever stamps or an international one" and "tape up a standard white envelope or use an A4 yellow envelope" I might just be over thinking but I have no idea
You reassured me thank you. Was straight up looking at 10tb hgst drives but was hesitant. I'll still check out other drives that have manufacturer warranties on them but its nice to know I can fall back on my old plan if I don't find a good deal.
Look at the Samsung "a" series of phones they should be around your price and have expandable storage AFAIK. I would go with the Samsung a54
There has to be a terminator meme featuring the tagginator somewhere out there
If anything adding those extensions would just make you easier to fingerprint, right?
Haha not going to lie should've done that in the beginning I'm just new. Felt this was safer and said "screw it, might as well use them."
thanks for the info I did mostly download movies and can't find their hashes on the website but I'll still keep it bookmarked for refrences
Dumb question since its peer to peer that means you'll need port forwarding if using nicotine+ over a VPN right?