I have a small external backup drive where I dump my phone camera captures and archive YouTube channels - nothing special; a few terabytes, mostly mp4s.

Is there anything I need to do before/after I swap?

If it matters, the drive is 9TB, formatted as NTFS, and connected via USB 3.0.

I also have 4 internal drives, but I’m not so much worried about them, as I plan on just formatting everything but the external.

  • AndrewZabar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    I don’t know what your financial status is, but a nice Synology NAS unit is a terrific investment. I’m really happy with the one I got a while back.

    • OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      12 minutes ago

      My financial status is I’m trying to figure out if starting a church to grift people will make me feel bad, lol. I’ll probably use one of the old PCs I have laying around and turn it into some sort of homebrew nas. Hopefully before it’s too late but probably not until I have a close call.