Cheapest Amazon price so far and the second-cheapest after the recent eBay Plus deal. US stock, which may make warranty claims trickier. The price has been trending down steadily and may drop further.
CamelCamelCamel: https://au.camelcamelcamel.com/product/B089C3TZL9
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Me!
I have a lottttttttt of linux distros.
I have over 8TB of music, mostly lossless 16bit flac. If you are a digital collector, it is easy to end up filling an 8TB drive as your collection expands.
Deals on shuckable 12TB to 20TB HDDs are popular on OzBargain, so it isn't just me who is a digital archivist.
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/233721406266
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/403702053350
Local stock for $599.82 with SEOFY22
$74.98 "per TB"
To apply this code, you need to be an eBay Plus member. Non members the price is AU $615.20. Still good!
hard to believe these will be $100 in a few years :)
well, it's hard to believe that I have a 1TB MicroSD sized memory storage in my phone,
and at this rate, maybe in about 5 years, I'll have a 2TB MicroSD sized memory card.
The World’s First 2TB microSD Cards are on the Way
It’s worth noting here that 2 terabytes, or 2000 gigabytes,
is the supposed highest physically possible capacity
for microSD technology according to data from the SD Association.
Nothing short of mind blowing!
Crazy that 8TB m.2 versions are still $1600+.
yep thats the price of speed.
under 600 would be the sweet spot I think would make a good b backup ssd.
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/233721406266
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/403702053350
Local stock for $599.82 with SEOFY22
(thanks wangasm)
I heard the higher you go the worse the speeds get.
Not worth the premium
It’s far more complicated than that..
The reverse is true - the smallest capacity drives are usually the slowest.
It also has to do with how much of the drive you fill up. You want to leave a certain % of the drive empty.
Yep, and the bigger the drive, the easier that is…
With the QVO you get a sizeable performance upgrade going from 1TB to 2TB. The performance difference between 2TB and 8TB for most operations are the same, though the DRAM increases with the storage size.
This is a good archive disk to dump all those GoPro or recorded gameplay videos or to finally move away from mechanical HDDs, but do remember these drives are limited to around 0.5GB/second and slow down with sustained writes.
Scorptec and a few other stores had a deal going for $299 4TB M.2 4x4 PNY drives with close to 5GB/s sequential speeds. If your system has 2 pcie gen 4 M.2 slots available then the ~10x speed boost for the same price might be a better way to go.
https://www.scorptec.com.au/product/hard-drives-&-ssds/solid-state-drives-(ssd)/103622-hbp-cs2241-4tb
I wonder who needs a 8TB hard drive?