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I could tell you what the "F" stands for, but I would hate to get kicked off the forum for using obscene language...

So the lesson of today is Gaurav, don't buy the Seagate drives manufactured during Barry his tenure 😂

I used to work for seagate manufacturing HDDs. 12 hour shifts, random drug tests, managers with no knowledge of the product, it was no fun. The day the factory got shipped off to Malaysia was one of the happiest days of my life.

I prefer driving old cars, as odd as that may sound. The noise, the smells, having a good upper body workout when you’re trying to parallel park. I can see why people drive modern stuff but it doesn’t appeal to me so much, it all feels too clinical and safe. My main gripe with older cars is that I usually end up buying some oddball that’s there’s only a handful left and I can never find parts easily.

Ewww....You couldn't pay me to drive that fugly prehistoric turd! Don't take it the wrong way barry but as the saying goes Dont meet your heroes. While the romance, myth and mystery might exist amongst most classics but in a reality majority of them are real turds to drive, even a modern Tiida drives and handles better than most of them and sometimes even faster. While I might like a lot of classic muscle cars, I know I will never buy one because of this. Who wants a 7 ltr V8 that puts out only 180hp, slower than a modern van, sloppy drum brakes, crappy 3 speed boxes, no power steering and handling like a cart. Resto mods are different thing though but supremely expensive. Looks of a classic bit with all the modern underpinnings. That I can go for.

Lol well if you are a glutton for punishment then there is nothing I can do about it, but I do understand what you are saying, some cars have a soul and character and no matter how crappy they are people will still spend loads and keep the running on the road, while majority of the cars are just transport like white goods like a washing machine and good at their jobs but you will never day dream about one or put up a poster of a washing machine in you bedroom no matter how good it is as doing laundry! Unfortunately most modern cars are like that, no matter how good reliable and cheap they are I know I will never get a Pajero, Pathfinder, Prado etc etc becaus to me they are souless cars and dont talk to me. Just bland like a fridge to me. I would rather get a tiny Suzuki Samurai which has loads more character and soul than all of the above combined. If you don't smile everytime you drive your car or at least look back at it once just to get one more glance while walking away after you have parked it, then you are driving a fridge. :)

Hi Gaurav, I have always worked with external WD drives for that purpose. In my opinion there is no drive that is SUPER reliable. Especially the external ones which can come up with issues if they are not safely removed after usage. (although you click on safely remove storage, i had issues with these drives in the past). For most of my data which i want to access regularly, i went with Dropbox and got a subscription for 10 Euro per month.That gives me 1 TB of storage and easy access and synchronization options. I use about 400 GB on the cloud now. For my other stuff (movies, etc...) i keep it on duplicated external drives because they are cheap. One is always connected to my WD media player on the TV, while the other is safely in the drawer. I use the windows program Synctoy to synchronize them with each-other, but there are other programs for that on different platforms. Because SSD drives have no moving parts, they might be more reliable i would guess, see link below: https://therevisionist.org/reviews/ssd-vs-hdd-one-reliable/ I can agree with their statement: At least 3 copies of data. On at least 2 different mediums. At least one off-site.

The J in Toyota FJ, BJ etc actually stands for Jeep.