Topic: Good portable HDD for cold wallet - page 2. (Read 364 times)
I re-read OP's statement few times and it seems he wants 2 portable HDD contain bootable OS. One of them used while connected to internet, while one other isn't. And it seems OP only plug one of them to the laptop at a time. While i don't know which portable HDD definitely don't have dodgy firmware, i believe he should get portable HDD that is protected against water, shock and others.
There are no HDD/SSD specifically designed for cold storage, so any brand shouldn't matter (ignoring durability). Then, what are your plans for accessing your bitcoins? Buy a new laptop that has never been connected to the internet, or do you have to wipe and reinstall your OS? Because this is the actual important part of the airgapped wallet.
Perhaps I don't understand the question
Neither do I.
In any case hot wallet should be online and thus connected (wired) with online computer.
Airgapped (cold) laptop must never be online.
Therefore, OP's plot to connect HDD that holds hot wallet and airgapped laptop would be an ambivalent practice.
Hi.
Perhaps I don't understand the question so I need to verify. What do you want to store on the external drives? In most cases, you can just run the wallet on the laptop and in case of an emergency you can use the seed backups. That's for the hot wallet.
In case of cold storage you can generate it on the air gapped laptop using electric and store the backups on physical media, produce the xpub so you can generate a view only wallet and then you can delete it from the air gapped laptop
Do you mean you want to run your own node (Bitcoin core most likely) so the Blockchain needs to be downloaded to the HDD?
Perhaps I don't understand the question so I need to verify. What do you want to store on the external drives? In most cases, you can just run the wallet on the laptop and in case of an emergency you can use the seed backups. That's for the hot wallet.
In case of cold storage you can generate it on the air gapped laptop using electric and store the backups on physical media, produce the xpub so you can generate a view only wallet and then you can delete it from the air gapped laptop
Do you mean you want to run your own node (Bitcoin core most likely) so the Blockchain needs to be downloaded to the HDD?
I want to use a portable HDD wallet for the airgapped laptop so I can bring it with me when needed. Does anyone know a good model that does not have any of the dodgy firmware stuff, that isnt a weird HDD/SSD hybrid, and that has decent performance?
I would like to have both cold and hot drives to be portable, so in case of an emergency or something, you can easily pick 2 small things and run, instead of having to carry 2 laptops.
The cold wallet I want an HDD in case full wipe is needed. See this for more context:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.63393713
Also edited thread because I switched cold with hot wallet by mistake because I was posting after xmas dinner.
I would like to have both cold and hot drives to be portable, so in case of an emergency or something, you can easily pick 2 small things and run, instead of having to carry 2 laptops.
The cold wallet I want an HDD in case full wipe is needed. See this for more context:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.63393713
Also edited thread because I switched cold with hot wallet by mistake because I was posting after xmas dinner.
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