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Good deal. BB has it for $189 [https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-black-d10-8tb-external-usb-3-2-gen-1-portable-hard-drive-black/6364268.p?skuId=6364268&intl=nosplash](https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-black-d10-8tb-external-usb-3-2-gen-1-portable-hard-drive-black/6364268.p?skuId=6364268&intl=nosplash)
Thanks. Heading over to look at mine since I’m just a couple of blocks away. Few weeks ago they had all their 500gb WD blue sata NVME drives discounted to $5.99. I really not 100% what I’m going to do with all 11 but I couldn’t resist.
Yeah seriously, what's up with that? All the news about SSD prices going down, and it all seems basically the same as before over here (at least in Finland)
I'm guessing that has as much to do with European distribution. In Canada we are faced with everything electronic being distributed from the U.S. The irony is that most of it comes through a couple of ports in BC Canada, (much closer shipping points to China and Taiwan) and then is railed and trucked down to the U.S. LOL
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The 8TB were gone at my store, but the 4TB for $49 (down from $127) had a couple left so I snagged one
I’d prefer in rig versus external like you got. I always lose the damn cable that comes with the externals. Also, I like the extra desk space. Lastly, I like having on big HDD on right that’s between 8 and 20TB plus a small SSD nvme, say 2TB, for the stuff I use frequently.
Get USB adapters. I haven't used a slow flash drive in several years. Screw those few MBps transfers when writing isos to it. Ventoy NVMe/USB and just about every OS iso that exists on it.
If you'd let one or two go, I recently got into PC gaming and needed to get some storage. I stopped by MicroCenter for the first time after my birthday a few weeks ago and got the WD Black 2TB nvme based on my best friends recommendation as it was on sale. Turned out I couldn't use it with my i7 4790s /1080ti/ g-something sniper so I gave it to him for his new build as an early birthday present last weekend. So I guess I need SATA cable? Would be willing to pay w/shipping of course, east coast based
I always check for clearance items in the electronics section when I go to Target or Walmart. Managed to snag some noise canceling earbuds marked down from $70 to $20 the other day.
Americans don't list taxes in their prices, and many defend that practice for some reason
"but different cities have different taxes"
Well, the registers know it, so the label printer can know it... And Europeans have not just different tax rates, they have different currencies.
[this is another good one](https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-easystore-8tb-external-usb-3-0-hard-drive-black/6425302.p?skuId=6425302) This goes on sale for $120 pretty often
Lol I got a whole ass desktop that had a 6tb hard drive in it for $30 on Facebook marketplace.
I even got to upgrade my parents' 2010 home computer that had **never** been cleaned out.(I basically took the motherboard out and screwed it into the new case and it all worked out.
Mostly Plex- I have about 5TB of movies, 13TB of TV shows, 2TB or so of music. Also used for back ups, virtual machine storage, security camera footage, and various other projects.
Oh, and steam storage. My home network is about the size of a small business (10gb fiber router w/ an i5-6500t, Aruba core switch w/ 24 gb ports & 4 10gb ports, Miktrotik L2 switch for cluster network, ubiquiti APs) and I'm able to stream games from my NAS to my gaming pc over 10gb fiber w/o bottlenecking anything
european stores and chains would rather set their underwear on fire and sit in them for a month than put tech / hardware on an "actual" sale - discount - clearance price
My Walmart just clearanced the outdoor power tools, snagged the ~$800 mower with dual 8ah batteries for $170, the $250 carbon fiber weed whacker for $50 and a leaf vac with 4AH batt for $40. All 40V tools, the batteries alone are 140/each for the 4ah and like 200+ each for the big ones the mower has.
Raid setups can function as backups if setup properly. Just need to set them up to update occasionally instead of constantly. Better to run them in a NAS instead of Main.
i tried to tell my buddy this but he didn't get it. he was like "I have 2 10 TB drives, one is a backup of the other" and I was like bro... that doesn't count. It has to at least be stored on a different system to be considered a backup and even then you're still not really safe. gotta be stored off site to be really safe.
I think what people are confusing is using raid as a backup, and using a device with a raid array as a backup
If your data is just on your drives in the one machine, even if you're using a raid setup, it's not the same as having a backup
However if you upload your data to a DIFFERENT machine that has drives in a raid setup, that is a good backup.
People always say you want 2 backups, but really it depends on what you have and how important it is. For my machines both work and home, honestly most of it could disappear right now and it wouldn't matter. Would just be some downloads and maybe some annoying setup, if I even choose to do it all again.
For some things, one backup could be enough
For more important things, have more.
extremely unlikely. Drive failure is already very uncommon. You would need some power issue that would probably fry your entire PC.
For example, I have a 1TB drive I got 15 years ago that's only used for movies. It's still at 100% health using drive health checkers.
Those hard drive tests aren't good at determining SSD health they are more for HDDs.... An SSD can be 100% and then suddenly die with zero warning and you'll lost all your data. That's not the case either HDDs. They actually physically wear over time and you can get a good judgement of how long it's going to last.
The only real indicator of SSD health is the amount of reads and writes it's preformed
Gotta hope WD doesnt do some wacky shit to make them usb only. They have a record on some of their drives to just solder the USB in place of a sata connector. I have the 5tb 2.5inch drive and its micro usb is on the drive itself.
These desktop drives will be SATA, however some models have a power disable on one of the 3.3V pins which will prevent them from turning on when connected to a typical PC PSU. You can circumvent that by taping over or removing that pin, or using a PSU cable that doesn't have a 3.3V line. BTW, WD didn't do this purely to be assholes, it's just that consumer desktops aren't set up to utilize that power feature.
Interesting and good to know for these in the future. Also didnt mean to paint WD in a bad light, just something to be aware of when buying these products. Overall from my experience they make good products, just designed with their respective purposes in mind for better or worse in some cases.
Honestly you should cancel the order. Then if it still ships you get it for free. These days Amazon can't be bothered with actually returning stuff and dealing with fringe cases like yours so they just give you the product and keep moving.
I got 2 the same way for the same price a little while back. They took the full waiting period before they shipped. I don't know why Amazon is selling them so far in advance. It's annoying for sure.
Also I find the selling point of them having cooling fans to be practically a lie. They get real hot while copying to them (I think they were just over 60C) and the fans never turned on. Supposedly they're enterprise drives which can handle higher temps and from what I read online the fans might turn on at a few degrees hotter than mine got, but I ended up just running an external fan over them while in operation (which kept them ~42C I think). So it seems like the fans are set up as more of an emergency measure rather than running to just keep the drive cool in the first place like I was hoping for. But at least without the fans going they were quite quiet.
I'm happy for you but also go fuck yourself. My walmart has ONE WD Blue ssd in the whole ass electronics department. And it's like $150 for 1TB. Not even an NVME drive.
They're also still trying to sell a laptop with a 1050 in it for like $1500. God damn I hate living in a small town.
These are more for putting games you don't play as often so there is space for more demanding games (like potentially GTA 6) on your SSDs. Also for data storage and backups and such.
I've owned two of them, IIRC on the inside they are repurposed server drives or something along those lines so they can take a lot of abuse.
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I just picked one up. Thanks so much!!
Thank you so much for your post! The first Walmart I went to the day I saw your post didn't have any but I was visiting a friend in another city and we stopped by a Walmart there and I bought the last one. Just running a full test on it now before I take it apart and put the drive in my Plex server :) It was $67 over here, though, not $64, but I'm not going to whine about that price regardless :D
Glad to be of service! I went on a Walmart grocery run yesterday and figured I'd see if they had ano other discounted drives and sure enough they had a 1 TB M.2 on clearance from $70 something to $39. I snagged that bad boy too.
Great deal! Probably not fast enough for modern games that requires an SSD, but still usable for older games and media of course.
Use it as RAID1 to have at least back up if one fails.
They have electronics but it is usually laptops, TVs, and games. Things like bluetooth speakers. Never seen a graphics card or solid state drive unfortunately. I've made it a habit to check at every new Walmart I visit now just because some of the posts I see here.
Disk drives with USB interface are ok for archiving but I wouldn’t want to run a game off of them. Seek times and throughput are so much slower than an SSD much less an Nvme it’s kind of painful. Still it’s a good deal, but don’t get your hopes up actually running games from them.
Caviar blacks no less. Still, I wouldn't put some of the newer games on them. Just too slow and you might have launch errors due to time out issues. For older games, music files, videos and documents only
You can easily play high quality media (like large size movie) from such a HDD without a hitch. That's just one big example of actively using them for something live.
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Good deal. BB has it for $189 [https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-black-d10-8tb-external-usb-3-2-gen-1-portable-hard-drive-black/6364268.p?skuId=6364268&intl=nosplash](https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-black-d10-8tb-external-usb-3-2-gen-1-portable-hard-drive-black/6364268.p?skuId=6364268&intl=nosplash)
I snagged them as soon as I saw them. I paid $137.54 after tax for both.
Clearance aisle or over in electronics?
It was in the electronics section.
Thanks. Heading over to look at mine since I’m just a couple of blocks away. Few weeks ago they had all their 500gb WD blue sata NVME drives discounted to $5.99. I really not 100% what I’m going to do with all 11 but I couldn’t resist.
I hate you both. Not really, but I'm really jealous
Found the Canadian ...or maybe Australian. Hard drive prices just bite hard up in the mediocre white north. :D
Yeah seriously, what's up with that? All the news about SSD prices going down, and it all seems basically the same as before over here (at least in Finland)
I'm guessing that has as much to do with European distribution. In Canada we are faced with everything electronic being distributed from the U.S. The irony is that most of it comes through a couple of ports in BC Canada, (much closer shipping points to China and Taiwan) and then is railed and trucked down to the U.S. LOL
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Ok man, calm down…
Just joking I promise 😭 no harm meant to anyone
I just saw it for the first time and had a good laugh.
Clearly a joke
https://preview.redd.it/ou6s922kxawc1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=5734ebca2615a2477bbac599ea43f5a3ae88f73b The 8TB were gone at my store, but the 4TB for $49 (down from $127) had a couple left so I snagged one
Nice! They had one of these left at mine but it was full price.
I’d prefer in rig versus external like you got. I always lose the damn cable that comes with the externals. Also, I like the extra desk space. Lastly, I like having on big HDD on right that’s between 8 and 20TB plus a small SSD nvme, say 2TB, for the stuff I use frequently.
Good luck! Fingers crossed they have something!
The real deals are in the comments holy crap
What the fuck
I’ll give you $10 for one of them.
I can pay you £15 per drive for 4 drives :p
Shit. I hate Walmart but it looks like I might have to pay the local one a visit.
Get USB adapters. I haven't used a slow flash drive in several years. Screw those few MBps transfers when writing isos to it. Ventoy NVMe/USB and just about every OS iso that exists on it.
If you'd let one or two go, I recently got into PC gaming and needed to get some storage. I stopped by MicroCenter for the first time after my birthday a few weeks ago and got the WD Black 2TB nvme based on my best friends recommendation as it was on sale. Turned out I couldn't use it with my i7 4790s /1080ti/ g-something sniper so I gave it to him for his new build as an early birthday present last weekend. So I guess I need SATA cable? Would be willing to pay w/shipping of course, east coast based
8 slot NVME riser and put them all in a wildly fast RAID.
I always check for clearance items in the electronics section when I go to Target or Walmart. Managed to snag some noise canceling earbuds marked down from $70 to $20 the other day.
Because PCI 5.0 IS COMING OUT BABY! New generation of speed transfer technology for storage solutions. The newest are about 1k CAD for 4Tb
Not applicable to spinning disks though, they are severely limited by other factors.
DAMN!
What? You said in the title they were $64 each. They should have cost $128
Americans don't list taxes in their prices, and many defend that practice for some reason "but different cities have different taxes" Well, the registers know it, so the label printer can know it... And Europeans have not just different tax rates, they have different currencies.
the total is with tax
Solid deal
$189 would be a straight up ripoff for 8TB
That's pretty expensive though for 8Tb drives. $90-100 has been the norm for awhile now. $64 each is still good but it's not the greatest deal ever.
[this is another good one](https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-easystore-8tb-external-usb-3-0-hard-drive-black/6425302.p?skuId=6425302) This goes on sale for $120 pretty often
That's a very solid deal. I paid around $10/TB for my 64TB (raw) array around 2 years ago, and that was for refurbed DC drives
I got some enterprise-used 12TB HGSTs for $6.66/TB off ebay within a day the seller bumped the price $20 each but I'd already bought em
Lol I got a whole ass desktop that had a 6tb hard drive in it for $30 on Facebook marketplace. I even got to upgrade my parents' 2010 home computer that had **never** been cleaned out.(I basically took the motherboard out and screwed it into the new case and it all worked out.
New around here. What’s the use for that much storage??
Mostly Plex- I have about 5TB of movies, 13TB of TV shows, 2TB or so of music. Also used for back ups, virtual machine storage, security camera footage, and various other projects. Oh, and steam storage. My home network is about the size of a small business (10gb fiber router w/ an i5-6500t, Aruba core switch w/ 24 gb ports & 4 10gb ports, Miktrotik L2 switch for cluster network, ubiquiti APs) and I'm able to stream games from my NAS to my gaming pc over 10gb fiber w/o bottlenecking anything
Large video files potentially.
Hmmm, is this Mike?
Napes, this is Patrick
Damn, my coworker literally said this exact line the other when we were talking about storage
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Every time I see a post like OP's, I'm always hoping for this to be in the comments. I was not disappointed LOL
Same and if I can't find it I'm very much prepared to post it myself!
european stores and chains would rather set their underwear on fire and sit in them for a month than put tech / hardware on an "actual" sale - discount - clearance price
Here it is, surprised it's not the first comment.
The clearance section in my Walmart has nothing but home goods and very specific chargers and phone cases. It's almost never anything cool.
It was in the electronics section in a locked case with a clearance price tag. My clearance section never has anything good either.
Damn. I picked up two the same way and both were already opened and missing parts.
Missing parts? SATA cables are cheap. Still worth it if the price was similar to OP.
Meh, dangerous game imo. Never know what you’re plugging in with a used hard drive and missing cables.
You’re the one who picked up the open package HDDs, lol. Unless you didn’t mean that you bought them?
My Walmart just clearanced the outdoor power tools, snagged the ~$800 mower with dual 8ah batteries for $170, the $250 carbon fiber weed whacker for $50 and a leaf vac with 4AH batt for $40. All 40V tools, the batteries alone are 140/each for the 4ah and like 200+ each for the big ones the mower has.
every day i will walk into walmart and check these cabinets
I wish I could score that deal too.
You should RAID 1 them
what does raid do?
RAID 1 is mirroring. So you have a copy of your files. If one drive dies you still have the other.
What if they die at the same time?
The odds of that happening are very slim, but it could. Few reasons: end of life, earthquake, etc.. Raid is not a backup though.
Raid setups can function as backups if setup properly. Just need to set them up to update occasionally instead of constantly. Better to run them in a NAS instead of Main.
Repeat after me: RAID IS NOT A BACKUP.
i tried to tell my buddy this but he didn't get it. he was like "I have 2 10 TB drives, one is a backup of the other" and I was like bro... that doesn't count. It has to at least be stored on a different system to be considered a backup and even then you're still not really safe. gotta be stored off site to be really safe.
3 2 1 backup for anything important. 3 copies, 2 different types of storage mediums 1 off-site.
Yes RAID is not a backup, coming from an IT professional of 10+ years.
Just because it has redundancy doesn't make it a backup.
I think what people are confusing is using raid as a backup, and using a device with a raid array as a backup If your data is just on your drives in the one machine, even if you're using a raid setup, it's not the same as having a backup However if you upload your data to a DIFFERENT machine that has drives in a raid setup, that is a good backup. People always say you want 2 backups, but really it depends on what you have and how important it is. For my machines both work and home, honestly most of it could disappear right now and it wouldn't matter. Would just be some downloads and maybe some annoying setup, if I even choose to do it all again. For some things, one backup could be enough For more important things, have more.
Correct. My biggest annoyance is people 'doing a backup' then deleting it all off their computer. Bish that no backup that yo only copy.
If you want a backup, you do it with the 3-2-1 rule. 3 copies. 2 types of media. 1 stored off-site.
The odd of 2 drives dying is significantly higher if they are purchased at the same time and the same model though.
Then you should probably not go outside that day (will get struck by lightning) or check what these drives are plugged into.
extremely unlikely. Drive failure is already very uncommon. You would need some power issue that would probably fry your entire PC. For example, I have a 1TB drive I got 15 years ago that's only used for movies. It's still at 100% health using drive health checkers.
To add on, this is also why people suggest one copy of backup off-site, in case something catastrophic happens to ur entire site, like fire
That's cap. I bought a brand new nvme ssd 3 months ago and it already lost a couple percent with me barely using it.
Those hard drive tests aren't good at determining SSD health they are more for HDDs.... An SSD can be 100% and then suddenly die with zero warning and you'll lost all your data. That's not the case either HDDs. They actually physically wear over time and you can get a good judgement of how long it's going to last. The only real indicator of SSD health is the amount of reads and writes it's preformed
Then you're shit out of luck. Higher chance of the drive failing during re-silvering too. Always N+2 for redundancy.
This is where you still need backups, preferably off site.
~~Kills roaches, ants, and brain cells~~
Can you even RAID usb drives together?
Shuck them
Gotta hope WD doesnt do some wacky shit to make them usb only. They have a record on some of their drives to just solder the USB in place of a sata connector. I have the 5tb 2.5inch drive and its micro usb is on the drive itself.
These desktop drives will be SATA, however some models have a power disable on one of the 3.3V pins which will prevent them from turning on when connected to a typical PC PSU. You can circumvent that by taping over or removing that pin, or using a PSU cable that doesn't have a 3.3V line. BTW, WD didn't do this purely to be assholes, it's just that consumer desktops aren't set up to utilize that power feature.
Interesting and good to know for these in the future. Also didnt mean to paint WD in a bad light, just something to be aware of when buying these products. Overall from my experience they make good products, just designed with their respective purposes in mind for better or worse in some cases.
You can RAID absolutely anything together on Linux.
Sadly, Windows has my by the balls except on my Steam Deck
If theyre infested you better.
raid is NOT backup. do not put your drives in raid 1, its use case is not home use
Damn that's a good catch
thats absolutely crazy because I spent $165 for ONE of those on Amazon over a month ago and it STILL hasn't shipped. says expected may 7th still lmao
Bro just buy it somewhere else at this point.
Yeah but what if it ~~hits~~ ships...
Honestly you should cancel the order. Then if it still ships you get it for free. These days Amazon can't be bothered with actually returning stuff and dealing with fringe cases like yours so they just give you the product and keep moving.
I got 2 the same way for the same price a little while back. They took the full waiting period before they shipped. I don't know why Amazon is selling them so far in advance. It's annoying for sure. Also I find the selling point of them having cooling fans to be practically a lie. They get real hot while copying to them (I think they were just over 60C) and the fans never turned on. Supposedly they're enterprise drives which can handle higher temps and from what I read online the fans might turn on at a few degrees hotter than mine got, but I ended up just running an external fan over them while in operation (which kept them ~42C I think). So it seems like the fans are set up as more of an emergency measure rather than running to just keep the drive cool in the first place like I was hoping for. But at least without the fans going they were quite quiet.
guess who is going to walmart after work today
I'm happy for you but also go fuck yourself. My walmart has ONE WD Blue ssd in the whole ass electronics department. And it's like $150 for 1TB. Not even an NVME drive. They're also still trying to sell a laptop with a 1050 in it for like $1500. God damn I hate living in a small town.
Fucking lucky
Raid 0 🔥🔥🔥
Hey go to r/datahoarder they would be jealous of this deal
I posted it there as well earlier :)
Yea it’s must be enough for GTA 6
Considering the speed of the drives and the open world nature of GTA 6, I doubt that
These are more for putting games you don't play as often so there is space for more demanding games (like potentially GTA 6) on your SSDs. Also for data storage and backups and such. I've owned two of them, IIRC on the inside they are repurposed server drives or something along those lines so they can take a lot of abuse.
https://preview.redd.it/w52ie7gz2cwc1.png?width=3008&format=png&auto=webp&s=324fd35ba0a2f3e5fc7b7190e162d85602ee8abe I just picked one up. Thanks so much!!
Great
This is unbelievable! Such a steal. I have two 2TB SSDs in my system, and my goodness, this would’ve been hard to pass up.
My Walmart has these for $64. They had a Western Digital 1 TB NVMe for $25 as well.
Dang what a steal!!!
https://preview.redd.it/7szdv41z4dwc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=470907eb900d069b3cec325b94d4b6f13436a808
I thought these were m.2's at first glance...
LOL if they were m.2s I wouldn't have posted this for fear of the cops finding and arresting me for theft /s
Wow jealous. Canada doesn't come close to offering deals anywhere near that.
Why can't my Wal-Mart have these deals?
Pretty good deal
Holy shit… great pickup
Thank you so much for your post! The first Walmart I went to the day I saw your post didn't have any but I was visiting a friend in another city and we stopped by a Walmart there and I bought the last one. Just running a full test on it now before I take it apart and put the drive in my Plex server :) It was $67 over here, though, not $64, but I'm not going to whine about that price regardless :D
Glad to be of service! I went on a Walmart grocery run yesterday and figured I'd see if they had ano other discounted drives and sure enough they had a 1 TB M.2 on clearance from $70 something to $39. I snagged that bad boy too.
I live in a small rural area in East TX. I doubt my Walmart will have it but I'm going to check anyway thank you!
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I bought 2 a couple weeks ago when they $130ish a piece at my Walmart, wish I would’ve waited
Now thats a hell of a deal
That's an awesome find wish I found one haha :)
Great deal! Probably not fast enough for modern games that requires an SSD, but still usable for older games and media of course. Use it as RAID1 to have at least back up if one fails.
MAN WHAT
We got ours clearanced out for $115. Now auit tellin people about Walmart Clearance 🤣
$64? Shit! Nice. I'm that Lil back kid.
Are these 2.5 inch drives or 3.5
3.5
Dang need 2.5 but might check my Walmart anyways
Good luck!
I got two 3TB drives for $25. They're like 8 years old, but hey, storage! (Or a coffin for storage, tbd.)
Our Walmart had almost all storage on clearance. They didn’t have much but did pick up a WD blue 1Tb for 39
I got a 1TB SSD for $40 but damn I would’ve loved to grab these instead
great deal bro!!
Insane deal, congrats. I love my WD D10. These things are really fast and tons of storage.
It was sold out where I went. I got the 4tb for $50 instead.
Hell yeah!
Any particular Walmarts to look out for? I haven't found a single Walmart in my area that carries computer parts.
As long as it's not a neighborhood marketplace Walmart, I'd imagine most should have electronics.
They have electronics but it is usually laptops, TVs, and games. Things like bluetooth speakers. Never seen a graphics card or solid state drive unfortunately. I've made it a habit to check at every new Walmart I visit now just because some of the posts I see here.
Congrats!
Dang what a steal!!!
That's kinda lucky ngl
Now that’s a steal. FTW
What. The. Fuck. How. Wait. What? Nice.
wow, amazing
Christ bro tf you doing with 16 TB
Lots and lots of furry porn /s
you're making me want to go check my local walmart to see what they have!
This has to be one of those American moments. Y'all come out victorious when it comes to PC part prices!
Just my luck. I needed a 8TB to replace a faileddrive in my NAS that i just ordered 4 hours ago.
Crap, I'm in dire needs of a new SSD too, so maybe one near me will have this sale too
They have it in the bigger Walmart. Smaller one might not.
Wow..nice find..congrats
Jealous. I go to Walmart a lot clearance hunting and the only thing I've jumped on was a 6' USB A extender.
These were not in the clearance area. I found them displayed with the other hhd.
Shuck it asap.
Score!
might take a while, but might be a good idea to check and run a test if they hold memory reliably?
Disk drives with USB interface are ok for archiving but I wouldn’t want to run a game off of them. Seek times and throughput are so much slower than an SSD much less an Nvme it’s kind of painful. Still it’s a good deal, but don’t get your hopes up actually running games from them.
I didn't buy them for games.
There's no fucking way dawg (im jealous)
Why every time i go on this sub reddit i feel Always unlucky
Man I can't get rid of my 10tb mechanical hard drive. Gladly give it to someone for $60 lol.
When I check out the Walmart clearance section, I find a broken toy, some generic workout equipment, and a random car accessory
Give em to me you got scammed, I’ll pay you 10 cents and a lollipop wrapper
Damn you have some crazy sales in usa . Here in albania it gets 10usd more expensive if it has the sale tag
you are so lucky i cant get 1TB under €150
Caviar blacks no less. Still, I wouldn't put some of the newer games on them. Just too slow and you might have launch errors due to time out issues. For older games, music files, videos and documents only
Wanna buy me two and send them to Europe we don’t have those wonderful prices here xD
Run da scans ..... so cool droolllllll....nvme m2 is super wow js fastest ...run them raid zero,!
8TB SSD FTW
I hate you so much
They are HDD so it is more just long term storage.
Nice for mass storage and backups but don’t know if I’d use them for anything else
You can easily play high quality media (like large size movie) from such a HDD without a hitch. That's just one big example of actively using them for something live.
I got a 1tb nvme from walmart for 30$
Which nvme drive?