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Negotiated a couple of deals with the rep.
Kingston A400 240GB SSD SOLD OUT - $44
Cheapest ever price. Price check
LaCie Porsche Design 3.5" 8TB USB 3.0 Portable External Hard Drive - $238.40
Cheapest at this time.
Kingston A400 240GB SSD $44 | Lacie Porsche Design 3.5" 8TB USB 3.0 Portable External HDD $238.40 Delivered @ Tech Mall eBay
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Taegukgi on 17/01/2019 - 12:51 ebay.com.au (1684 clicks)
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Removed the "cheapest ever" comment!
Edit - Tech Mall dropped to $44.
$45 in person at MSY
https://www.msy.com.au/nsw/hurstville/internal-ssd/19125-kin…
Shows as $45, probably worth checking with MSY if you're going to walk in.
You should always order for pickup if you use MSY.
@Diji1: Ordered 4 x Kingston 240gb SSDs online yesterday and picked up in store today at MSY Clayton, no dramas
no stock in WA just went in and checked. did get an aluminium enclosure for $15 though so ill probably get the ssd on one of these online deals.
$45 for crucial bx500, faster and better brand.
https://www.umart.com.au/Crucial-BX500-240GB-3D-NAND-SATA-2-…
Great price. Post it as a deal!
Great price but $11 P&P to metro Melbourne is a bit steep.
Crucial BX500 is indeed a bit faster, according to Userbenchmark:
https://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Crucial-BX500-240GB-vs…
Sandisk Plus and WD Green in same price range benched a bit lower than Kingston A400:
https://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Compare/SanDisk-SSD-Plus-240GB…
https://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Compare/WD-Green-240GB-2016-vs…
Could the SSD go into a PC and be used for ROMS for a retropie and have the Retropie read from the PC drive?
Yes
You can't have a Raspberry Pi and a PC connected to the same drive at the same time, but if you mean using a PC to load them on then move it over to the Pi, yeah, no problem at all.
I basically meant, use the PC as a storage bay for the SSD as a secondary drive - Put nothing on the drive except for the roms in RPi file structure, and then have the Pi access it. Essentially instead of having the roms on the SD Card, they are on the SSD and the PC powers it.
Probably better off using an external harddrive USB case . Then you can plug it directly into the RPi .
To make sure I understand correctly, this kind of thing would work, although it's pretty clunky.
R.Pi -> USB-SATA adapter -> SATA cable -> SSD SATA Port PC PSU -> SATA Power Cable -> SSD Power PortBetter off just using a SATA to USB enclosure (may need external power if the Pi can't give enough power to the drive, check Pi forums for recommendations, I think it's probably OK to bus power it).
@abb: I'm more saying this
PC (has a hard drive for OS) - Chuck this empty hard drive in it with roms loaded on it. So PC powers the SSD essentially making it a NAS for the RPi to access
RPi in lounge room connected to Network via WiFi. Have the RPi Mount the SSD and access the roms on it to run.
My terminology sucks haha - I just want a hard drive in the computer that the RPi can see and access.
@Fergy1987: Ah. So your question boils down to "is this a PC hard drive" ;)
Yes. That'll work just fine.
Yes but ROM files are so small that it won't make much difference to game loading times.
Anyone know how I would go about cloning an existing HDD onto this so I could swap out the boot drive of a laptop?
You would need some way of reading it, the 2.5" can run from a USB SATA reader alone, 3.5" need external power, then it's as simple as getting a cloning software and running it. I used EaseUS Partition Master Free but there's plenty around.
If you have a spare SATA bay in the laptop, you can just pop it in and go from there.
Edit: However if you're on windows 10, I would recommend backing up all the files you need and doing a clean install.
Cheers - got a USB enclosure so I'll do this. I would normally just do a full reinstall but it's the MIL's laptop and heaven forbid it looks any different to when I got it. I'd rather she just got her computer back 'faster' than bother telling her she's had anything new fitted… next thing you know every little problem is because of 'when I took it apart' etc. etc.
It sounds like someone has learnt this lesson the hard way already :)
Haha this made me laugh
Task manager > startup > disable as many as possible
Instant speed boost.
Why would u do a clean install rather than mirror a working drive? What advantage would there be?
Remove all the bloatware, fix any registry issues and make sure only what's needed is reinstalled so it can run at full speed.
As Bouw3r said. Download your laptop drivers to a flash drive and take the opportunity to do a clean install.
Can anybody from the last deal https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/411236 confirm that the hard-drive inside the case was a Seagate Barracuda Compute? Thanks!
Seagate shifted to Barracuda Compute for their external drives quite a while back. However, these drives are still SMR drives. If you need consistent write speed, you should avoid these drives.
Thanks for the advice Systema!
LaCie - Possible for shucking?
I still remember paying $150 for a 240Gb Samsung Evo SSD :/ those were the days!
$213 for an OCZ Vertex 3 120gb in 2011 was my first, it still runs!
Seems the LaCie drive is $298 not $238 as advertised, did I miss the price boat??
20% off using POOLTIME
What does Porsche know about hard drive design?
German Engineers, they know lots.
Not that I'd ever buy a LaCie.
Hmm, Tech Mall. They are PCByte group. Very suspicious why they are trading under so many names such as PcMeal and IOT Hub as well. Bad experiences with returns. Just warning you guys.
The eBay title is misleading.
Portable External Drive usually refers to 2.5" based drives which are powered via a single USB cable (which also handles data transfer).
Desktop External Drive usually refers to 3.5" based drives which are powered by a separate AC Adapter, and use a USB cable for data transfer.Lacie refers to their 2.5" based drives as "LaCie Porsche Design Mobile Drive"
https://www.lacie.com/as/en/products/porsche-design/porsche-……and their 3.5" based drives as "LaCie Porsche Design Desktop Drive"
https://www.lacie.com/as/en/products/porsche-design/porsche-…The 3.5" 8TB external drive should not be referred to as Portable.
I got one, thanks Chilbot….
http://www.staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=kingston+a4…