Steer clear of WD Easystore and Green drives. Those tend to have lower quality parts, WD's Blue, My Passport, and other products are the ones to go for. Great stuff, more often reliable than the competition.
Please do not try to hang on to old HDDs past 10 years of age. They may last well beyond that, they may up and suddenly die on you just after 10 years. It is completely unpredictable. replace after 8-9 years to be safe, but WDs are generally reliable up to 10.

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Sabrent looks questionable with how inexpensive their products are. "Too good to be true" often is. On the other hand, iDSonix, Vention, Orico, and Baseus are similarly inexpensive and generally good. Baseus now sells locally in the USA, used to be Aliexpress/fleaBay only. Something about sabrent is kind of off-putting. Probably only my own autism.

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Wangblows has been able to do that since 7. CD-RWs can be used like flash drives while their rewrites last, and CD-Rs are finalized whenever you want. You can keep adding to a CD-R until it is out of space. You can also choose whe3n files get written, it tends not to be immediately unless you want it to.