I was too curious and broke the seal. Will actually try to use it, probably for the rare full /home backup every 2 or 3 years, since it needs external power and is probably not that fast. I’d date this artifact late 2000s? It might have USB 2, making it fast enough.
Weird though that I’d buy this and forget about it forever. It definitely cost enough to matter to me back then.
Crazy that we have microsd cards bigger, faster, and probably cheaper and more durable than this.
I always question the durable bit.
I’ve never had good luck with cards. I’ll always be suspicious of them. 😔
Yeah they’re definitely not the greatest on that front, but if you subjected an ancient hard drive to what a microsd card gets subjected to I’m sure the card would come out on top
Yes the microSD card would better survive a hammer. But that drive if kept properly will outlast the microSD
Plus, if something happens to the hard drive you can still (at prohibitively high cost) recover the data. SD card not so much.
I meant more just being moved around while in use, but yeah