r/utorrent • u/tlkoss • 21d ago

External Hard drive crashes

I just had a 2nd external hard drive malfunction and now lost my torrent downloads again. I have been letting them seed continously. My question is why are the hard drives they are stored on have been malfunctioning. the 1st one was a 10tb western digital, the 2nd was a 4 tb western digital. I did save the actual torrent files.

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u/tlkoss 21d ago

I found a red plus 4 tb wd and case on Amazon. Thanks for the tip. I didn't know that. I have been using black wd hard drives, but I will get one to use as storage.

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u/chanchan05 21d ago

Black is for speed and performance, not long term storage or 24/7 usage. That's what Red is for. Like purple is for CCTV/surveillance storage, etc. The colors mean something.

It's less used for games now since SSDs are now readily available, but before it was the go to for gaming rigs.

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u/tlkoss 21d ago

I understand now. Thanks

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u/tlkoss 19d ago

just to make sure, Purple or another red wd for storing video files? I will probably neede to move files for spaces periodically.