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Samsung T1 Portable 500GB USB 3.0 External SSD $205.73 USD Delivered (~$278.84 AUD) @ Amazon

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sirix on 16/08/2015 - 18:40 amazon.com (327 clicks)
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Hi,

Been watching this on CamelCamelCamel, seems the be the cheapest it's been for the 500GB model, (only once before been this low), Aussie stock seems to be at it's lowest $361.48 + Shipping, so it's a fairly decent price imho.

It's in stock, fulfilled & shipped by Amazon, ships's internationally, and is about as cheap as i've been able to find for this model.

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    • Sage on 16/08/2015 - 18:52
      +4

      apples and oranges.
      mechanical drives are slower and are susceptible to shock damage which affects their portability IMO.

        • sirix on 16/08/2015 - 18:54
          +1

          You could make the same argument for tape drives whilst your at it.

        • samfisher5986 on 16/08/2015 - 18:58

          The SSD actually does a much better job. Its a lot faster which is 80% of the reason why you would buy one.

        • samfisher5986 on 16/08/2015 - 19:37
          +1

          @holden93:

          You need to grow up and do some research.

        • [Deactivated] on 16/08/2015 - 20:22
          +2

          @holden93: Did you know that not everyone in the world has the same needs and budget as you?

        • Tal_Shiar on 16/08/2015 - 23:15

          @Orpheus:

          Its a lot faster which is 80% of the reason why you would buy one

          I think he knows…

        • Smigit on 17/08/2015 - 08:09

          @holden93: Depends what you are using the drive for as to whether speeds important. I'd love one to put virtual machines on for work for instance, and any slow downs due to disk IO done with those can be absolutely painful.

        • Axelstrife on 17/08/2015 - 08:28
          -4

          @Orpheus: where did i say they do? i just stated what I thought.

          I do find it funny how i got 15 negs which is more then how many plus's on this deal just proves how broken the negging system is and how people neg just cause they can and not actually care what they are negging.

      • tonyrulez on 16/08/2015 - 18:59

        External drives are for data storage. SSDs are for running OS/programs so they are faster. So I don't really see the point of a 278AUD external drive that basically does the same thing as a 82AUD one: http://www.ebay.com/itm/ADATA-HV620-BLACK-500GB-500G-EXT-HDD…

        (I've been using some noname 1TB external HDD for 6 years from now, and works flawlessly)

        • sirix on 16/08/2015 - 19:03
          +3

          The reality is, you can use that external SSD to install apps/programs on, it suits a lot of different use cases, obviously if you just want to backup your photo album to it, it's probably a bit overkill, but if you want to store your high definition video footage for editing, well that's where it becomes handy, it can be the disk you edit that video from without it being the bottleneck in your workflow, like i said, suits certain use cases better than others, doesn't make it less of a deal.

        • Smigit on 17/08/2015 - 08:10

          In the past I've run virtual machines from an external due to limited space on my laptop, and would benefit greatly from a quicker drive.

          I wouldn't buy one of these to store MP3s, but they do have a time and place.

    • sirix on 16/08/2015 - 18:53

      Depends on what your after, you can't compare a HDD to an SSD, they're worlds apart in speed, not to mention resliancy to getting knocked about.

    • [Deactivated] on 16/08/2015 - 20:21

      Link to the 1TB SSD for under $100?

      • b-radicool on 17/08/2015 - 09:38

        He's talking about an internal drive.

  • effgee on 16/08/2015 - 20:17
    +1

    There are several good applications where this easily beats a HDD, i.e. if you want to carry it on your pannier bag on your bike, rolling out large images to a training room full of (non-networked) laptops.

    • clandestino on 16/08/2015 - 21:20
      -8

      I have no idea what any of that means. But it sounded very poncy.

      • effgee on 16/08/2015 - 21:42
        +4

        let me translate: if your gunna be rough with it or need to transfer big files quickly between computers

  • MrMaxwell on 16/08/2015 - 22:17

    I assume the day is coming when SSD portable drives will be standard and mechanical drives will be left in the distant past?

    • cristtos on 17/08/2015 - 08:30

      Already (nearly) there, see USB thumb drives, 32 GB common, 128 accessible.

      • Smigit on 17/08/2015 - 08:44

        That and cloud storage will become more and more common. There's times where local storage is needed, but streaming will become an option for a growing number of multimedia formats and for documents it works well too. I'm sure many IT departments would prefer an online account that they can lock users out of if needed to easily lost USB sticks too.

    • skegger on 17/08/2015 - 08:47

      I sure hope so. I have a 500GB SHDD I put in an external enclosure and it's already giving me the click of death now and then.

  • cristtos on 17/08/2015 - 08:37

    I bought (a while ago) a Kingston SSD which came with an USB3 enclosure to facilitate cloning, excellent model as it is very easy to replace the device.
    So wouldn't it be more cost effective to get a $20 odd dollars USB3 external enclosure and chuck in an SSD?
    Is there anything special about this drive?

    • Tm15 on 17/08/2015 - 09:22
      +1

      its probably about a third the size

      • cristtos on 17/08/2015 - 09:43

        Based on mSATA?

  • chaserjs on 17/08/2015 - 20:36

    250gb model now reduced to $99USD($106USD delivered(~$145AUD))

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