SLO Bytes Bulletin Board
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Alan J. Raul on July 16, 2018, 08:28:33 PM
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I have been looking for the cost of 1 TB SSD's to drop. I have been using 1 TB Toshiba spinning HDD's for many years for off-site backup. They don't get much use so I didn't need to go with high-quality Samsung SSD. The spinning HDD's were getting painfully slow when you are use to SSD's.
I was looking at:
Inland 1TB 3D NAND SATA III 6Gb/s 2.5" Internal Solid State Drive from MicroCenter for $159.99.
http://www.microcenter.com/product/508183/1TB_3D_NAND_SATA_III_6Gb-s_25_Internal_Solid_State_Drive (http://www.microcenter.com/product/508183/1TB_3D_NAND_SATA_III_6Gb-s_25_Internal_Solid_State_Drive)
Until this deal showed up on the Amazon Prime Day 2018:
SanDisk SSD PLUS 1TB Solid State Drive - SDSSDA-1T00-G26 from Amazon for $149.99.
It's interesting to note that these SanDisk SSD's were first available on Amazon on June 11, 2018.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07D998212/ (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07D998212/)
So I pulled the trigger and ordered 2. Now my off-site backups should take a fraction of time.
UPDATE: I had previously checked B&H and they were priced higher than Amazon. They now have dropped the price to match Amazon but without having to pay the sales tax.
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1415978-REG/sandisk_sdssda_1t00_g26_1tb_ssd_plus.html (https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1415978-REG/sandisk_sdssda_1t00_g26_1tb_ssd_plus.html)