Looks like these popular portable SSDs have had a recent price drop (from about $175, I think?).
The 8% code doesn't have a specified end date in the T&Cs.
Sneak it down a bit more with a discounted GC (e.g. 2.5% with Shopback)
It's already sitting quite low now. SSD SATA 1TB has been going on sale for as little as sub $70. Also if you don't mind buying enclosure for cheap from Aliexpress there's always SATA SSD and NVMe gen 3 stick which hovers around $68-110 pretty much all the time so yeah, living the dream babbbbbbyyyy!
It's best to go for T7 Shield. T7's sustained write is quite ordinary. However, if you not planning to write data constantly to it often (and use it mostly for reads), then it is okay. T7 Shield's sustained 1000MB/s write is good. Saw a $149 deal recently on that, so get JB to price match and use the $10 voucher (+ discount gift card(s)).
what's considered good/bad?
and how does it compare to ext hdd, or sd card?
Or eg these things
https://www.amazon.com.au/Samsung-MUF-256AB-AM-Plus-256GB/dp…
I have a surface laptop that's outta space.
Want to use for photo capture, say 40mb files. SD was too slow to work.
T7 will easily beat SD card or that USB stick you posted.
What I wanted to point is that, initially, there were not that many options for external SSDs a couple of years ago. However, since then, there are now better models. If T7 Shield is only going to be $10-$15 more, then it is worth considering.
Didnt realise sustained write speeds differ b/w shield and normal T7 - not apparent from the spec sheets…. I guess matters if recording high res vid or similar…. but fair play with getting a shield through JB too (just have to go instore if eg using the recent coles 15% GCs to stack up..)
Is this good for 4K video editing ? If not can anyone please recommend a better option. TIA
Hard to resist these prices but I heard that ssd prices are going to be way lower next year, so i’ll hodl :)