Saw this as black Friday sale on Amazon AU. The 1TB drives are all usually $75-78
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Potatoes? Onions are where things are at. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. "Gimme five bees for a quarter," you'd say. Now where were we? Oh, yeah. The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have any white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones…
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Still one of my favourite Simpsons' quotes of all time.
When I was a teen working at Hungry Jacks there was this guy working along side me who just started mumbling it to me every time onions were mentioned. So much harder to make burgers when you are keeled over laughing but it did make the day go quicker.
I guess that's why they're getting cheaper. Presumably at some point you just won't be able to buy a mechanical one any more.
Just spend the extra $10 or so and get a cheap ssd instead, with these, portable hard drives fail easily
Absolutely. $10 for extra SSD speed is well worth it. 1TB HDD should be less than $50.
The only advantage mechanical ones have is you can flog them with way more writes compared to SSD, such as using it for daily surveillance footage etc.
That said this price isn’t that great when you can buy an SSD one for a bit more but it’s not awful.
Samsung Portable SSD T7 Shield 1TB MU-PE1T0S
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/155176427102?epid=12056130652&ha…
Ebay Plus members - $87 Bing Lee with code
Had to choose buy now, then pickup, and use code HGTNOV
click and collect only
got a reply - order is ready for collection
C&C only though, no good when you're nowhere near their store. They were offering the same deal with delivery but sold out real quick.
I got my T7 from this deal last week and used it for the first time today. Both read and write speed barely reached 50m/s on my M2 Macbook air with the included type-c to type-c cable. If that is normal and not faulty or anything I find it hard to justify the $87 I spent.
Apple silicon can be quite fickle, I’ve found. Try the drive on a windows machine and see what you get.
You are right. Tried it on Windows and it was much faster. Both went over 200m/s. Also I wasn't using any software to test, only tired to transfer a file of couple GB, I guess that why I didn't get close to the claimed speed of 1050m/s.
This is quite expensive. I bought my 2tb many years ago got same price.
Indeed 2 years ago bought 2tb similar to this for roughly the same price I think about $15 more…
Tooooo expensive…
There was a 4tb one the other day for $118, which is still in the reasonable zone as SSDs at this capacity are still expensive.
yeah HDD only has value for high capacity. I'm genuinely amazed HDD even exists still at 2tb and under.
Would only buy portable SSD in 2023…
Hdd? People still buy these for potables with ssd prices for barely much more?