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Great price, can't even buy in NZ for under $75/$68AUD.
14/11/2024 - 21:07
How many people are likely to hit such endurance write limits in the drives lifetime
25/10/2024 - 12:22
At that price you can also buy a 2TB portable SSD that is only slightly larger in size(plus a cable) that will be faster transfer speeds or…
24/10/2024 - 22:51
Last year lows make no sense to compare to as many SSD's are up 50% plus since Dec last year
06/10/2024 - 09:29
They are asking about images, it's entirely likely they could fit on a handful of dvd's for a few bucks rather than buying a HDD/device…
27/09/2024 - 23:34
If its just photos DVD-R's will be fine and will last longer than mechanical HDD's generally, easy to have a handful across several…
27/09/2024 - 17:59
Just buy a lower storage one wth dram for system drive, isn't really needed for a secondary drive
22/09/2024 - 20:22
Yep but what do you expect at these pricepoints really, 256GB of same model is often this price range. You should be spending 3x as much…
29/08/2024 - 10:51
you can sideload android apps on the device and run emulators etc
22/07/2024 - 17:42
If you are storing 10's of TB's its kind of mad not to get a proper NAS and RAID setup imo
17/07/2024 - 11:21
I'm guessing this was in 2023 rather than 2024?
12/07/2024 - 21:02
cost is the reason why, theres a handful of n95/n100 with usb-c for $220-250(the more expensive with usb-c power too)
01/06/2024 - 10:27
I've been able to order subsequent items without the limit active too(without asking the chatbot)
15/04/2024 - 12:15
what read/write speeds do they have? can't see anything listed in product reviews
30/03/2024 - 15:43
It can be worth splitting up orders for return/refund purposes(temu only offers your first return free for each order so splitting up big…
23/03/2024 - 11:06
[Stoic and NovaAlpha](https://www.cheapies.nz/comment/217941/redir) on cheapies.nz(sister site) pointed out you can ask the support chatbot…
22/03/2024 - 14:34
I don't see a reason why it wouldn't work.. However some adaptors may only be USB2.0 and not 3.2 etc.
16/03/2024 - 11:55
Yeah the deals I'm thinking are more like these on xmas which were fantastic pricing Samsung T7 Portable SSD (Red): 1TB $86.20, 2TB $142.84…
06/03/2024 - 14:07
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06/03/2024 - 14:07
yep, have been no real deals since xmas last year
05/03/2024 - 16:02
In a way yes, some of the cheapest have been known to have adware installed on them before sale. Often the cheapest ones have fraudulent…
02/02/2024 - 10:43
Several no name brand ones have done dodgy stuff with their default OS installs, basically man in the middle ad intercepting and serving…
25/11/2023 - 11:47
I got mine in 9 days via aliexpress(to NZ) and was pretty happy with it. Amazon US has some black friday pricing going up for the kamrui…
23/11/2023 - 13:42
Yeah I went with the Firebat n100 mini for ~$240NZD and it's fine for the job with n100 16GB/512GB…
17/11/2023 - 22:11
4TB 990 pro has been sold for $200USD on the Samsung US site for military/first responders, may well go into the ~$320AUD range for black…
17/11/2023 - 13:46
This is pretty likely to hit close to $200USD for black friday, it's already sold for $200 on Samsungs US site for military/first…
15/11/2023 - 17:18
Why would you even risk your data being on a single drive?
12/11/2023 - 20:18
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