(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best external hard drives

A few things to note for any PC you're going to be developing with:

In terms of the OS, Windows will do everything you need unless you're doing mobile app development. Otherwise any PC will be a good idea:

Some things to consider for a laptop:

• First off, Windows 10 is hungry for I/O. Get a laptop with a solid state drive. It's a godsend, since they have very little latency and they can keep up with all the things Windows 10 does in the background. The other benefit is booting & launching programs will take less time (nearly instantly for some). The other thing is if you end up using Intellij IDEA (Java ide, very bloated) for any of your first year courses, you'll be happy with one
  
  • If you can't get an SSD because of the cost / not enough storage, get a laptop with a 7200 rpm hard drive NOT a 5400rpm one. Same reason: access times. 5400 rpm hard drives are extremely sluggish on windows 10.
    
  • For many of your COMP classes, they will give you a Virtual machine to develop inside. These VM's tend to be hungry for I/O, but it's not as bad as windows since they're Linux distros.
    
  • If you're tech savvy & want to save some money: if there's a laptop that you found that's a good deal, but does not have a SSD, go for it. If you have all the tools you can just buy a SSD afterwards (it costs less this way) and install it yourself, this does imply you'll have to reinstall windows too. Bonus: You can buy a little hard drive enclosure and use it with your old hard drive for backups, or other stuff.
    
• Besides that, battery life is nice. Take this into account if you have long lectures / don't want to always be beside an outlet.
  
  Keep in mind that besides that you'll probably want something durable. Apple machines tend to be built well. Enough said. But for the PC realm I'd take a look at the following product lines:
  
  

1. Lenovo Thinkpad. Don't buy a cheap one, i.e "IdeaPad". Specifically, the thinkpad T series, X series, and the W series (older, but powerful). They can be easily modified to have an SSD (many new ones have a M.2 slot w/SSD and a 2.5" bay). The business made ones are built like tanks, and can be dropped several times without skipping a beat.
   
2. Asus Zenbook. These are attractive laptops since most are thin and portable, boast a good battery life, and have SSDs.
   
3. Dell XPS. They're crafted beautifully, and they're all you'd really need. Pricey, though.
   
   Otherwise any other "flagship" laptop is good, and look around to see about any deals. Also I named particularly mainstream laptops that can have powerful processors & fast storage, but if you planned on a gaming laptop then naturally look into other lineups that have better cooling + more powerful graphics.

I went with the Libre Renegade since it was on Amazon and had prime shipping but it looks like Amazon only has the
4GB for $80 so it would be pointless to pay that much when the NanoPi M4 is $65

Looks like you can still get the 1GB version ($35) and the heatsink($4) from Love our PI but anything above that would be a waste of $ the main benefit is a solid OMV 4 build and the fact you can use any Rasp Pi case.


Here's the case I bought for $10.

I had to mod it to fit but I was able to easily mount a 40mm Noctua fan to it
So you're looking at around $50 not counting micro SD.

Then I have a 4bay Mediasonic Probox with 4x8TB shucked WD My Books(WD80EZAZ) and Easy Stores(WD80EMAZ). The 4 i purchased were all basically the same white drives which are the same thing as the 8TB reds.

Currently getting 100-110mbs and SMART actually works perfectly.

So total cost is gonna set you back $150 for everything except hard drives.

With that said, I personally would still go the same route since I know its reliable and all the kinks are ironed out.
The RK3399 boards are coming out every day so I would probably get the NanoPi M4 since it has OMV ready to go.

I agree about tape being cheap, but it's not much cheaper than a modern external USB HDD nowadays. Now if you have a library (old dell TL2000 or 132T's) it's pretty fun to script the library control stuff.


I setup a SSH RSYNC process before i used CRASHPLAN to an old LINUX box at my dad's house. Provided remote replication that was active all the time. that was a fun project for me. Maybe something similar could be your next adventure. Rasperry Pi3's are plenty beefy to serve as a LINUX NAS/RSYNC destination. And they are super-cheap.


Data protection is a thankless skill/profession, i'll tell you. I'm happy to see someone taking an interest. My field of expertise is a lonely one. :) Good Luck!

> 120 GB is nothing and will be filled by like 4 games. Most people have 500 GB or 1TB consoles. At least be intellectually honest.

$14.99

Perfect, they can put their HDD’s into an enclosure and save all their stuff, and run MHW from the SSD. Capcom can’t optimize the game to run as fast as it does on an SSD on an HDD. So if you really care about the load times, you should buy an SSD. That’s what I did at least and 120GB is way more than you need. Also if you scroll through the storage sizes theres a 480GB $150 CAD which is still no where close to $500 so at least do some research before you throw out sensationalist numbers to try and make your case. Idk why you would buy a 1TB SSD it’s a huge waste of money, especially the Samsung 850 Evo, unless you’re building a PC. But even my gaming PC with a 1070 uses a 250GB SSD to run the OS and a select few games and a 1TB HDD for everything else.

> Which is the logical and obvious endgame as developed by Capcom. Everything else you described is possible during the story phase of the game, which falls outside of the bounds you set. In regards to the rest of your post, World is a huge step down in terms of content compared to past games. Doesn't matter what other series offer because this is not from those companies or franchises.

How is that the logical end game? There are still T2 investigations for Decorations and if you want to make new weapons/armour they require you to go back and slay/capture all kinds of monsters from Low Rank to High Rank. There’s also unlocking the event armour and weapons, completing the Canteen ingredients and then just enjoying fighting monsters.

Not sure why some people absolutely need game developers to spoon feed them content and tell them how to play the game. What happened to just sitting down and having fun messing around with a videogame? Everyone needs more, more, more. Just because you don’t like to hunt endemic life or just sit there and fish doesn’t mean the end game lacks content. It means you just don’t like the game. You can always play another game. Cheers.

I don’t have an easy answer for you. I have been looking for an 8TB drive for some time now myself, and have spent far too much time comparing options. I would love to hear everyone’s opinion!

I also haven’t looked that much at encryption, hopefully someone here knows more about that part.

Seagate Expansion STEB8000100
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HAPGEIE/ - $150
Lacie Porsche Design USB-C STFE8000401
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075VP1PJX - $220
HDD (probably, based on forum reports): Seagate Archive HDD ST8000AS0002 (SMR)

Pros:

• Cheapest option
  Cons:
  
• Meh performance (SMR)
  
• 1-2 years warranty
  
• Meh reliability/workload (rated 180 TB/year)
  
  Seagate Game Drive Desktop 8TB STGG8000400 – ($240)
  https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07173WR4B - £165 (couldn’t find on Amazon.com)
  HDD (probably): Seagate Barracuda (non-pro) ST8000DM004 (SMR)
  
  Pros:
  
• OK drive (most agree that it’s better than the Archive)
  Cons:
  
• Meh performance (SMR)
  
• 1 year warranty
  
• Meh reliability/workload (rated 55 TB/year)
  
  Seagate Backup Plus Hub STEL8000100
  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HD6ZLQ6 - $155
  Seagate Backup Plus Hub STEL8000200
  https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01IAD5ZC6 - £158
  
• Mostly reported as ST8000AS0002 inside, some reports of ST8000DM004 inside (see above).
  (see https://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/7875/seagate-backup-plus-hub-8tb-external-drive-review/index.html, https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/7fbkh3/the_seagate_backup_plus_8tb_no_longer_have_the/)
  
  Internal 3.5” + USB Enclosure - $300
  HDD (e.g.): Seagate Barracuda Pro ST8000DM0004 (PMR Helium)
  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07211QYRC - $280
  or HGST Ultrastar He8 HUH728080ALE600 (PMR Helium)
  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00Q1IZJD8 - $240
  Enclosure (e.g.): Ugreen 3.5” Hard Drive Enclosure
  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076WQHK2G - $20
  
  Pros:
  
• Highest performance (7200 rpm + PMR, not SMR)
  
• 5 year warranty on drive
  
• High reliability/workload drive (rated 300 TB/year)
  
• Flexible (You can use the drive internally, if you decide to do that)
  Cons:
  
• Most expensive option
  
• Possible compatibility issue depending on enclosure
  
  WD Easystore
  Also HDD lottery.
  (see https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/7fx0i0/wd_easystore_8tb_compendium/)
  
  WD My Book
  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LQQHLGC - $170
  HDD: Lottery.
  Reports vary all over the place. Very old reports say HGST Enterprise Helium (Early 2016), Older reports (Mid 2016) say WD Red WD80EZZX (Good), newer reports (2017) say it’s a lower-performance white-label drive, some call it a WD Blue (?).
  (see https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Storage/HGST-Enterprise-He8-HDD-Found-Early-Retail-8TB-WD-My-Book, http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php/776633-8TB-WDBFJK0080HBK-NESN-vs-WDBBGB0080HBK-NESN, https://tinkertry.com/liberate-western-digital-8tb-from-external-drive-enclosure-to-save-big)
  Neutral:
  
• Performance?
  
• Reliability/workload?
  Pros:
  
• Cheap option
  
• 3 year warranty
  
• Most probably PMR, not SMR
  Cons:
  
• HDD lottery
  
  This was quickly put together. Comments and suggestions welcome! :-)

I have a couple of Western Digital My Passport drives that I use for movies and such. I would recommend buying one exclusively for Time Machine and using that to back up. Then buy one for your other random stuff. Time Machine doesn't like sharing drives, although you can if you partition it. But the drives are so inexpensive that it's easier to just buy one exclusive drive for it. Mine are 2TB and cost around $80-90:

WD 2TB Black My Passport for Mac Portable External Hard Drive - USB 3.0 - WDBCGL0020BSL-NESN https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00WJOVCOS/

WD 2TB Black My Passport for Mac Portable External Hard Drive - USB 3.0 - WDBP6A0020BBK-WESN https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LQQH8E2/

Those are preformatted for macOS. You can buy the regular one too, but at least for Time Machine you would want to reformat it if you did that. If you are sharing between a Mac and PC, you would want the non Mac version:

WD 2TB Elements Portable External Hard Drive - USB 3.0 - WDBU6Y0020BBK-WESN https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00D0L5BH8/

WD 2TB Black USB 3.0 My Passport Portable External Hard Drive (WDBYFT0020BBK-WESN) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LQQHF2W/


You will also need USB-C to USB Micro-B adapters for them. I have these and they work great:

CableCreation USB 3.1 Type C (USB-C) to USB 3.0 Micro-B Cable, Micro USB 3.1 USB-C for Apple The Macbook, Chromebook Pixel and More, 1ft/0.3M in Black https://www.amazon.com/dp/B012V56992/

I'd still say my point remains. I could go over to Target right now and pick up a 4TB external for $105, so perhaps slightly higher than that $90 sale, but $100 is not uncommon. 5TB drives seem to have mostly been phased out (I believe WD discontinued it from their lineup), so you'd have to "settle" for $120 for a 5TB Seagate right now from Amazon. Or, from Amazon, $180 for 8TB, so the same price as that particular external that most people want to just shuck, or I might have to spend an extra $4 if I wanted it today from Best Buy (though it's only in stock in store at one store local to me). We may be in that just-before-Memorial-Day-sales period, so I didn't see the greatest pricing. What were everyday prices like back in 2010? $20/TB?

Your example isn't any better at demonstrating the price "trend." You're picking a relatively premium internal drive and trying to compare it to today's pricing. Also, was that $85 a typical price, or did you grab it during a sale? Sales come and go. WD Blacks don't really go on sale as much, and at the moment, they're up a bit. I paid $200 back in mid 2014 for a 4TB WD black, $175 in mid 2015, and $165 in early 2016. Just because that drive is $200-210 right now doesn't mean typical or average drive pricing hasn't come down. Also, it's been the case as long as I can remember that drives at the lower end of the capacity spectrum are usually going to be more expensive per capacity than higher capacities. At the moment, I'd consider 2TB at the lower end of the spectrum nowadays, but it would have been closer to the higher end 7 years ago.

It seems this WD black 1TB was $100 back in 2010 (according to a couple reviews, and there's a pcper review from Feb 2010 mentioning it was around $100). The more current version is only $73.

Definitely the best deal here. One thing you definitely need to understand is that this is only going to be a 500GB system which really isn't enough space for most xbox one players. If you're only going to play halo on it, then that is perfect for you. If you know you're going to buy more games, then you need to start looking at external hard drives (EHD) that will work with your xbox. I got a 4TB WD My Book External Hard Drive which has worked really well with my xbox one and I got it on amazon for $98 https://www.amazon.com/Book-Desktop-External-Drive-WDBFJK0040HBK-NESN/dp/B00E3RH61W/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1473731188&sr=8-6&keywords=4tb+external+hard+drive+usb+3.0 (It was cheaper for some reason. Right place right time I guess) so I would just look around for a deal on something like that. You can research with a google search on what EHDs work with Xbox one if you have a preferred brand in mind. Up to you. That's just my two cents though. I started playing Halo: Combat Evolved when I was 10 with my older brother. I'll never forget those years and that's why I'll be an Xbox customer for life. Hope you and your son enjoy it!

I can't find any info on this on Western Digital's website. Is there a place that lists the OEM drive inside of different external enclosures? I realize that a manufacturer like Western Digital might put different OEM drives (Hitachi/WD) into the same enclosure as long as the specs are the same. But still, it would be nice to have somewhere to check to see what you're getting inside that plastic.

Edit: finally found a phrase that gave me what I wanted on Google. "what drive is inside wd my book" was it.

>We can only guarantee drive capacity. We cannot guarantee a particular internal hard drive model, data interface, rotational speed, or cache size in the external hard drive enclosure.

Source from WD's website

That's crazy to me. That means that the $130 4TB WD My book might have a $128 5400 RPM Drive or potentially a $200 7200 RPM Drive.

They only guarantee capacity? That's crazy to me. I assume they do this so that when they buy another manufacturer's stuff like they did with Hitachi, they can get rid of old stock without having to worry about matching specs. That's honestly great news as long as they're selling the External at about the same price as their cheapest OEM drive. Some lucky guy is getting free random upgrades.

Tl;dr: do whatever, actually.

I think both can be ok, but there's no guarantee. In the reviews (go down the page, click "See all [amount] customer reviews and [amount] customer ratings, then on the reviews pages, filter by "all formats" -> "show only reviews for capacity 2TB"), both drives have been said to work with PS4, for example. So it will probably work anyway. But while the read speeds are probably enough, for example one review stated "It's fairly slow taking near 4 hours to backup 400gb", i.e. about 30 MB/s. It's probably the same for both drives. And 2TB really might not be enough. I would perhaps go with this https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-STEB4000100/dp/B00TKFEE8K/ (2TB more space, and greater speed with $20 added) I have already two of those, they look beautiful, I think... they're actually black, and like diamonds. However, it's rather big and supposed to be in an upwards position (but it doesn't matter so much). And also, perhaps 2TB is just enough! So, that's just me, thinking 2TB is terribly little for hoarding. Anyway, I had hard time finding any good information on Wii U games, it seemed like the average size could be something like 300MB in some place, but 5Gb in some place... but I suppose you know what you need? Anyway, those drives are quite cute, and perhaps they will be even cheaper after a few years (thus, the 2TB portable ext. HDD might be the most cost-efficient solution actually, besides being cuter). So maybe you should actually go with one of those you linked. They seem to be quite similar. Note that no drive is reliable, per se. But if the games are actually like 300MB each, even a 500GB SSD for the same price $60 (although the portable ones are pricier, and that would anyway be extra cheap deal) would enough probably, perhaps 1700 games would be enough...?

>I mean... my landlord will kick me out using police reinforcement if I don't pay my bills, so...

That is a terrible analogy. Your landlord can make money by renting to someone else. This isn't the same with cloud storage -- at least, a company like Nintendo should not be running out of space and selling to the highest bidder.

Consumer grade hardware is $100 for a 4 TB drive. Industrial grade, we'll go with $1000. Have 49 backups for all I care. $50,000 in hardware expenses. That is covered from the sale of 1,250 games. Games. One thousand, two hundred fifty games.

>You then disappear without ever talking to them for several years without warning or paying them and then coming back expecting them to not have thrown it out "because you were friends ten years ago."

Another terrible analogy. Digital and physical world don't parallel very well.

Somehow Google is just fine holding onto my 10 year old gmail account that I log into once every four years. Why not Nintendo?

Edit: Have some copypasta from over 3 years ago. The prices have gotten even cheaper:

Edit 2: Haha, this copypasta doesn't even use the right math. That 7 million accounts should be 10 million in 7 TB (and same to small denominations). So it's even more of a ripoff than I erroneously calculated.

Edit 3: Revised the math.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nintendo/comments/3dxtvv/whats_your_most_unpopular_opinion_about_nintendo/ctabc0v



The PokeBank (not sure if this is more Game Freak or more Nintendo) is a huge rip off. It is 100,000% more expensive than any cloud storage software and there is absolutely no reason except millions of dollars in pure profit to make it an annual fee instead of a one-time purchase. The storage space any individual account will ever take up is <700 kilobytes. For the record, you could put 10 accounts on 7 MB, 7000 10000 accounts on 7 GB, and 7 10 million accounts on 7 TB. And looking on Amazon: 4 TB Hard Drive for $110 http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-STEB4000100/dp/B00TKFEE8K/ref=sr_1_3?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1437436355&sr=1-3&keywords=terabyte+harddrive&refinements=p_n_feature_two_browse-bin%3A7817230011

So, they can literally pay <$250 worth of storage space for 7 10 million subscriptions ($5/year -- $35 $50 million/year). OK, let's have some redundancy in place though! Got to have backups! Let's have 3 backups, so we're looking at spending $1000 out of $35 $50 million.

But, oh you say, electricity and internet costs for running these 24/7? This I don't have nice pricing on, but I cannot imagine it goes to more than $1 million/year. Reddit uses the Reddit Gold feature to pay for server costs. $4 of gold supposedly pays for 231.26 minutes of server time -- That's ~4 hours. Do we need more than 5 servers for Bank? Eh, sure, we'll say 50 servers because lumping the numbers in Nintendo/Game Freak's favor is always good to making this argument.

So, it costs about $25/day (24 hours/~4 hours = 6; 6 * $4 = $24) per server. It'll be $1250/day with 50 servers. 365 days to a year: $456,250 per year in server costs.

Now, of course, you pay the one guy who does daily diagnostics on these servers and maintenances a great salary because this is a huge money making operation. Let's give him another $500,000/year.

So, our annual expenses are almost $1,000,000/year. Let's pay the difference to the person who coded Bank and Transporter in a week's time (I'd say this is an accurate estimate for how rudimentary and shoddy both softwares are, including the back-end). And at just 7 10 million customers, they make $35,000,000 50,000,000/year.

Do they really need to be making 3400% 4900% profit on this?

By all means, invest in a NAS system like Synology. This is an expense that merits the cost.

I personally own one like this one filled with 8 x 4TB WD RED drives with two disk redundancy, so if two disks fail on me I should be fine.

Every three months, I back up the entire 20 TB on mulitple 8TB WD books drives like these for offline cold storage, just in case my office burns down. All links in this post are referral links.

Data is NOT something to go cheap on. It has other uses, too. I use it for a home security system, printer server, and a PLEX server as well.

EDIT: This 8tb WD EasyStore external drive is a better buy than what I originally linked above. Usually they ship with an 8tb RED NAS drive inside which is worth more than the drive themselves.

I have a Mac, work in disconnected environments, generate a few gigs of new data every week, and have been obsessed with backups for as long as I can remember.

My goal is automated incremental backups of my entire machine with proven software. I've settled on Crashplan, SuperDuper, and two WD portable drives.

Crashplan backs up my home folder to the cloud when there is a connection and it also backs up to Drive 1 every fifteen minutes or so. I then use SuperDuper for nightly images of my entire machine to Drive 2.

Crashplan keeps every single change and it's great to recover from software bugs and accidental deletes. SuperDuper's nightly images are great for fast rollback and to mount my drive on pretty much any Mac.

I've been a nomad for about two years and this system has worked well for me. It keeps your data lived in three places locally (laptop, two drives) and uses the cloud as the fourth location.

If you have a good connection, you can keep the laptop and drives in the same place. If you don't have a good connection, keep the laptop and drives separated.

The big gap in this system is in restoring the OS and apps. Your OS can only be restored with a recovery partition on your Mac and your apps from SuperDuper drive. If either of those are gone, you are going to be in for a rough time.

Hope this helps.

That is a big limit.

1lb Fat replica

Infant Circumcision Trainer(Great, now i have that in my browsing history)

Weener Cleaner soap (When your hand just isnt enough)

Can we have more than one item that we want as long as its under $2000?
If so, heres a few things. if not you can choose from that list.

4K Monitor $624

Microphone $57

Headphones $188

Keyboard $95

2TB External HDD $100

Computer Case $160

Power Supply $170

Graphics Card $340

I really need any of these so even one thing will help tons and i really appreciate the contest and what you are doing is both crazy and the nicest thing ive seen someone do. even if i dont win you are still and amazing person. Thanks again and good luck everyone.

Well you don't have to go with a server-style case, it's just what I default to thinking of. The one you linked to only holds 8 drives, though they are hot-swap which I admit is a very convenient feature.

The Cooler Master Cosmos II holds 11 drives and looks like a normal PC case. It also has three 5.25" bays which means you can shove a cheap 5-in-3 drive cage in there to be able to use all 16 ports on the LSI 9201-16e. Don't forget to buy a fan for it though.

You could also go for a case that has all 5.25" bays in the front like the Antec Nine Hundred, then use those 5-in-3s for 15 total drives. If you really want hot-swap though it would be expensive. With a quick search the cheapest 5-in-3 hot-swap bays I could find are the NORCO SS-500s.

As far as a PSU you goes, you don't need much since it will only be powering HDDs and fans, no CPU or anything like that. It can be a low power one, 500 watts is probably more than you'll need. Just make sure make sure it has a single rail for the 12v and 5v power and is from a reputable brand. I like the EVGA Supernova, that would easily run 16 drives.

EDIT: WD 10TB Elements drives on sale for $160 until midnight Pacific time. This is an even better deal than the 8 TB ones for $130 the other day. You should definitely snatch up as many as you were planning to get.

No. I don't like Seagates because I personally think they're unreliable, but everyone is entitled to their own opinion.

Just an example: Seagate makes an "official" external drive for the Xbox One, and if you look up reviews on that on Amazon, you'll see that a large portion of buyers complained that it randomly stopped working after 1-3 months: https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Game-Drive-External-Portable/product-reviews/B01065S79E

That is just one example, but I have had a seagate drive for 2 years and it died on me randomly too.

I'm sure every external drive has its pros and cons, though, and I'm sure some drives that I like may not work out for others, but that's just my 2 cents. I've had a different WD external drive for my PS4 for over a year, and it's been working great. I have this one if you're wondering. I just bought another WD for my new Xbox One X, too.

I have a ps4 and faced with the same dilemma. From my research, I've seen that Seagate is highly unreliable. That pushed me to look into western digital. They appear to be much more reliable but are also somewhat more expensive.

WD 8TB My Book Desktop External Hard Drive - USB 3.0 - WDBBGB0080HBK-NESN https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LQQHLGC/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_apa_Nf8RybJB1HCC7

This is the one I'm looking to get, once the ps4 update allowing external hard drives is released. It has the best ratings, tons of space, and a great value.

Well, this HD has a nicer look to compliment a XBOS. The White with the black Xbox Stamp.

> a free one-month Xbox Game Pass subscription for the 2TB unit, and a two-month free subscription for the 4TB unit. That’s a $10 and $20 savings, respectively.

So with the $10 towards the Xbox Game Pass for the 2TB unit, which is why you would be buying this anyhow, makes this 2TB unit $80. Just $5 more than the Standard WD 2TB

If you are just in the market for a HD & aren't interested in the Xbox Game Pass then this makes no sense to get unless you just want a "Xbox" branded external.

For what it's worth, the cheapest 2TB External Hard Drives on Amazon.Com are Seagate at $72.

Easystores have a WD Red (sometimes white label which is a red drive with some quirks) NAS drive which is popular for 24/7 usage. These have either an archive drive or a barracuda drive. Archive drives are bad for frequent writes, but are good for backing up/storing once and reading many times as they use shingled magnetic recording. The Barracuda is a desktop drive, which is kind of the middle ground. If you are going to use this one as an external drive, it has a two port usb 3.0 hub in the front that the Easystore does not. Another alternative is to buy the WD Mybook which is guaranteed to have a WD Red and has a 3-year warranty. Currently @ 184.99.

yeah, it's actually pretty easy just plug and play for the most part, pretty simple. I have a 5TB Seagate drive I got a few years ago for $130 on sale and I've already filled it to 50% since I buy a lot of games and download them all and never uninstall them.

This is the drive I got - Seagate 5TB USB 3.0 Back-up drive It's as fast or faster than the standard Xbox One HDD in pretty much every game I've tested. However, I'm fairly sure there are better options for you and your storage needs.

Sounds like a good idea, thank you for your advice. I don't think this HDD is in a separate housing, it's this one which seems to be pretty solidly sealed off. Will try to find a guide to opening it up though because perhaps it's just an unusual form-factor.

I've got a feeling that there's a loose connection somewhere in it TBH. If it was a broken head or something like that, it would be corrupting data - but I think (see:assume) that if it was a loose connection then it would make sense that it's got a working/not-working fluctuation.

And yes, I'd managed to look after it for a good few years before he dropped a cricket ball on it. He laughed it off, but I don't think he realised he'd just knocked the life out of 2tb and 4+ years of data.

Edit: I just found this video and it looks like this might work. I don't have a SATA enclosure, but hopefully this indicates that there's some potential!

Amazon has been selling 10TB WD Elements drives for $179.99 lately. Not sure how much that will go down on black Friday.

That same link has a variety of sizes to choose from. The 8TB drives have been 124.99 for over a month. The only difference I can tell is that the WD Elements (Amazon's 'exclusive') have 2 years warranty instead of 3 years of the EasyStore (Best Buy's 'exclusive').

I have one of the 8TB models, it has an WD80EMAZ-00WJTA0 in it. It was super easy to open, didn't even need to use an old credit card like I do for the Easystores. I just laid it flat, back facing me and pulled on the ends and pushed forward with my thumbs on the flat part.

Here are my collection stats... Many of which are full sets. Sizes are "Size on disk" values.

ATARI 2600 - Full set - 4.23MB

ATARI 5200 - Full set - 1.18MB

ATARI 7800 - Full set - 1.90MB

ATARI Jaguar - Full Set - 88.2MB

ATARI Lynx - Full set - 11.1 MB

MAME 0.168 - Complete up to 0.168 including CHDs - 450GB

NEC Pc-engine (turbografx-16) - Full set - 77.7MB

Nintendo Gamecube - very incomplete, most US releases - 669GB

Nintendo DS - Incomplete, have up to ~6200 - 374 GB

Nintendo Famicom Disk System - full set - 7.57MB

Nintendo Gameboy (And color) - Full set - 569MB

Nintendo Gameboy Advanced - Full set - 6.81 GB

Nintendo Entertainment System - Full set - 238 MB

Nintendo 64 - Full Set US Only - 4.92 GB

Super Nintendo - Full Set - 1.61 GB

Nintendo virtual boy - Full set - 6.19 MB

Philips CD-i - Full set(1 bad dump) - 34.1 GB

Playstation 1(x) - full set US ONLY - 455GB

Sega DreamCast - Full Set - 452GB

Sega Game Gear - full Set - 59.5MB

Sega Megadrive (32x And Megadrive) - Full Set - 695MB

Sega Master System - full set - 43.2MB

Sega Saturn - Missing 3 US ONLY - 82.5GB

SNK NeoGeo - Full Set - 3.83GB

SNK NeoGeo Pocket - Full Set - 383MB

Sony Playstation 2 - No where near full set... - 2.03 TB




Looking at this.... You'll be immensely happier just buying a 3-4TB external and adopting it to the machine. The 100$ you save by going the 16gig shield route... you can put to buying a drive like this and be much better off. Side note... The shield unit can natively emulate everything up to about the dreamcast era of games. Most dreamcast play okay... some gamecube play as well, but most don't. XBOX and PS2 don't play at all that I have found.

You can do everything up to n64/ps1/saturn(no nintendo ds since you can't emulate touch on the console) era in about 1.82 TB[according to my library] including mame and CHDs. I don't know if the MAME CHD games play well on the shield natively, I haven't tested them.

But I do know that USB based joysticks like the X-arcade sticks work(don't know about the trackball).

Edit: Also, transferring large amounts of files is terrible on the shield. There aren't any real good file explorers for the shield. So it's much easier to just unplug a USB drive and bring it over to the computer and put the files on yourself than wait forever for a network transfer over ES file Explorer.

I have a pretty old (nearing on 10 years?) Seagate that's 1T and awesome. It's not slow if I play games directly from it plugged in. Here's the newer model of it:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HD6ZLIY/ref=twister_B079PBR4VV?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

I also have a slimmer one that's exclusively for backing up my computer and keeping important files portable that is pretty great too. Again, this is the newer model:

https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Portable-External-Photography-STDR2000100/dp/B00H4XH5FY/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1538795210&sr=1-2&keywords=seagate%2Bexternal%2Bhard%2Bdrive&th=1

Yay thanks for the tech stuff contest :D

For me, I'd greatly appreciate a Toshiba Canvio Basics 1TB Portable Hard Drive :D It has a very practical use for me. Recently, I've gotten back to studying and experimenting with game development. Since my focus is on 3D world, that means I also have to create a lot of 3D objects and even 2D textures and maps for my characters and items. The assets I create usually consume gigabytes worth of space on my current drive because there's so many of them! I've also used up my other 1TB external drive because I've been saving all my educational material and experiments there. Recently, I had to delete older training material from my old 1TB external drive just so I could save the new ones I'm learning. With a new extra 1TB drive, I wouldn't have to worry about deleting previous and current work and learning materials from my computer and external drive and I'll be able to focus more on quality instead of trying to compress everything into lower quality versions.

Thanks in advance :D

"Gimme some Tech Daddi!" said Commander Shepard to the Reaper :D

Well you could carry a RaspberryPi DIY solution but I’m kinda worried about the transfer speed (it will take some time to be backed up).

For SD cards I use this WD My Passport Wireless Pro [https://www.amazon.com/Passport-Wireless-Portable-External-Drive/dp/B01F5LVTO4] but I haven’t seen anything like that for Hard drives other than the docking solution that was recommended below.

I would still do a DIY solution with an 8TB HDD from WD, the ones rated for server usage.

If you want something robust for important work (has built-in RAID):

https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/storage/external/owc-mercury-elite-pro-dual/usb-3.1

If you want something portable but still robust:

https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/owc-mercury-elite-pro-mini/usb-c

If you want something more basic, I like the Seagate Backup Plus or WD My Passport:

https://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Passport-Portable-External/dp/B01LQQHI8I/ref=sr_1_1


https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Portable-External-Photography-STDR2000102/dp/B00FRHTTIU/ref=sr_1_1

Try this one its massive and inexpensive but works great. I have one and another external drive from western digital and both work great but this one has a huge capacity for its price.

https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Game-Drive-Green-STEA2000403/dp/B072QH2JCL/ref=lp_6469292011_1_1?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1571923836&sr=1-1&th=1

EDIT: The original deal linked for this post has ended, but Amazon is still offering it for $150.

I also found it on Amazon for the exact same price. Checking the price history makes it seem they are trying to compete with this deal:

http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Backup-Desktop-External-STDT5000100/dp/B00J0O5R2I

And it looks like Newegg will be selling this same drive for $10 cheaper on Black Friday:

http://bfads.net/Black-Friday/NewEgg/Ad

So whaddya think, /r/xboxone? I just killed what little space my Xbox One's internal drive had left (thanks, MCC) and I really need to expand my storage. Kind of on a timer with this as it is a deal only available today, but I need to know if I should pursue this drive or look elsewhere. Thanks for any and all help!

It's 2018, soon to be 2019...people should know the default 500gb isn't enough anymore. I've had an external 4TB for years. Works great (and word on the street is it improves load times as well?). Here's the one I've used with my PS4 with great success if anyone is interested.

There have been lots of suggestions.

This is the one I have:

WD 4TB My Book Desktop External Hard Drive - USB 3.0 - WDBFJK0040HBK-NESN https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E3RH61W/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_c_api_cO4mybVXPFFPB

4 terabytes total (maybe closer to like 3.8 of usable space). I have 78 games of varying quality and size saved on it and I've only used 30% of the space. If you get Xbox Live, you get two free games a month and those add up the Gigs fast. I usually buy and download the free games onto the hard drive. I can access them seamlessly from the "My Games and Apps" tab and save things to it without any extra steps.

I think I got it on sale for under $100 last year but the current price ($130) is still great for the quality and size.

Considering how quick and easy it is to upgrade the PS4s internal HDD, I'd honestly go ahead and start looking into it ASAP. I wouldn't imagine that constantly reformatting your HDD is terribly good for it, and if anything, may end up shortening it's life.

This guide is the best I've found, and I've personally used it every time I've replaced a PS4 HDD (a total of four PS4s now).

And this is the hard drive I used to upgrade my own PS4. I've been using it for 2 years and have never had a single problem with it, even after multiple power outages.

Good luck with whatever you decide to do!

I have two actually, a 7200 rpm 2 TB Touro that they no longer make but I loved:

http://www.touropro.com/en/product/touro-s/index.html

So I bought the 8 TB Gamedrive to add to the 2TB. I absolutely love the Gamedrive. It has two USB on it to charge controllers or plug in keyboards and other accesories:

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B072QH2JCL/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

*I'm not sure if the Gamedrive has 5400 or 7200 in it as I've seen two different tear downs of it and one had 5400 and the other had 7200 in it but I have zero problems with running games off of it.

I love the gamedrive.

Aughhh this is getting more and more complicated.

My PC only has one more drive bay free, I've been using it as my smb host.

Cost wise going multi drive is....

Wait. What if I shucked WD my books instead of a Seagate 8tb external?

They have blues or something in them right?

Like these?

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/aw/d/B01LQQHLGC/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1522959512&sr=8-3&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=wd+mybook&dpPl=1&dpID=31RlBoWL6uL&ref=plSrch

I used a 4 tb WD external drive on an old Dell laptop forever, until I recently upgraded to a TS 440. I bought a 4tb WD red drive (and drive caddies) and de-shelled the external to install internally. So I have the 4tb red and a 4tb green. Not raided or anything. It's working pretty well!

Yes here are my drives. Both working fine but keep in mind I have modified my console drive housing to accommodate the 15mm height requirement of the new drive. You can see in the imgur post here:

4TB PS4 15mm internal drive (UGLY) install https://imgur.com/gallery/oT7Tq

Ordered 4tb on Amazon.

Seagate Expansion 4TB Portable External Hard Drive USB 3.0 (STEA4000400) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B017KE8OG0?ref=yo_pop_ma_swf

I gutted the external hard drive and used the 4tb drive in my console.

I bought 8tb at best buy.
Western Digital WD Easystore 8TB USB 3.0 External Hard Drive https://www.amazon.com/dp/B073LK1F6X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_OwYSAb1T5R21M

I'm Canadian. Trick is you buy the drives when there are good deals. I don't see any right now, but $400 is a bit high for 10 TB even in Canada. This 10 TB drive is CAD$300 or $315 after taxes on the Canadian Amazon store. This 8 TB drive is only CAD$184 on Amazon Canada, meaning you could get 16 GB for $368+tax.

Is the NAS really worth it for the premium price in storage? Guess it matters how much you care about redundancy. I personally don't because I can just re-download stuff fairly quickly if anything happened (~1.5 days for 16 TB and 1 Gbps connection) and nothing in my hard drive is that sensitive. Of course you might have other circumstances that make the premium price worth it.

Get this external storage instead, because seagate has higher failure rates as proven in the past.

Idealy you would want an Internal HDD, but for some reason your friend has everything on USB.

If you would like to use internal HDDs (and get wayyyy faster transfer speeds) but have no space left you can buy this or this or any other one you would like and then you just plug it into an eSATA port or USB. If you have an internal SATA available you can buy this and have a nice place to plug it in, or just buy long eSATA to SATA cable and shove it through a slot.

Note: To protect your data you need to put more money into it, currently you have 0 data protection.

Thanks for the info! I just wanted to clarify and make sure I’m understanding you.

So I have a MacBook Pro 2016 so it should have the NVME SSD right ?

You said in order to take advantage of thunderbolt you need a drive faster than usb 3. Are you talking about the drive in the computer or the external harddrive ?

lacie 2 TB

So I was looking at this 2 TB harddrive with thunderbolt. It’s 169

Versus the usb 3.0 2 TBs that are like 60 bucks from WD or Seagate.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FRHTTIU/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_-f6aBbHKYWEEV


I’m trying to figure out which I should buy .

I'm pretty sure it's an SSD though. The Amazon page I bought it on doesn't make any specific mention of it being SSD or HDD, but I'm pretty sure it's SSD. Product link, if it helps any.

WD My Passport Ultra has been working fine for me. One time I had the cable malfunction on me, e-mailed WD for a new one ,while still under warranty. They delivered me a free one the best week.

WB element external drive. Better reviews than the "mybook", and cheaper because it doesn't have pre-loaded software, which when re-formatted by the wiiU, will remove that software anyways.

Best value for your Wii u.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B002QEBMCI/ref=ya_aw_oh_pii

I own it. I love it.

Its going good. I have 2 setups now and we have a #siaberry channel in Sia Discord. Also heres a parts list if your interested in getting one.

http://amzn.to/2g8nc0R -32GB USB
http://amzn.to/2wr6JLu - RPI Kit
http://amzn.to/2xvPvJU - 32GB MicroSD
http://amzn.to/2w0K5IU - 8TB Hard Drive
I have been working on Siaberry a lot and it has been going pretty good.
If you are interested in Hosting on the Siacoin network this is a real good entry point.
I just launched another Siaberry a few days ago and its been running with 100% uptime. Here you can check and see if its running right here https://siahub.info/host/5675

PM Sent. Will these work?

.mp3 - Toshiba Canvio Basics 1 TB portable HDD - Black for $49.99 (listed as their "#1 best seller" for that size).

.FLAC - Toshiba Canvio Basics 2 TB portable HDD - White for $72.99. (The black version is $8.00 more.)

Both drives are Prime eligible.

(I linked to smile .amazon.com and hopefully you will too! That way a portion of your purchase goes to your favorite charity. Personally, I donate to the ASPCA with every Amazon purchase I make.)

Pretty sure it's a maximum of 8Tb. I have a 4Tb one as the next size up needed its own dedicated power supply, this one runs off just off the power supplied by the port.

This is what I use (as recommended by Eurogamer), I have it about a year and it's worked perfectly.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/External-Devices-Data-Storage/Seagate-Expansion-Portable-External-Drive/B017KE8OG0?tag=eurgam-df-art-uk-21

That seems to me like a better idea. The best SSHD I saw being recommended around here is FireCuda from Seagate whose maximum capacity is 2TB. Link:

https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-FireCuda-Gaming-Solid-Hybrid/dp/B01IEKG2HM

If you decide to use external HDD, the capacities range anywhere from 1TB--8TB. However, be aware that for 8TB you need to have a separate power cable. 4TB is the sweet spot with reasonable capacity and a single cable:

https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Portable-External-STEA4000400/dp/B017KE8OG0/

I bought this one in 2015, and its cheaper today than back then
Just saw it is only 70 right now, that's great, I'd jump on it.

Can honestly say it is great. No issues, games actually load faster than the internal drive, and it is plenty of space for me, I download a few games, get about half the free games for gold, and download games on black friday. Have about 50 to 60 games, and used about a 3rd of the space thus far.

Based on what you've said there are a lot of good ideas that I've seen (I'm not reading all 200+ comments) but here are my thoughts while trying to stay in your budget.

1. System, Forza Horizon 3, 12 months gold ~ $400
   
   
2. 3 extra controlers ~ $135
   
   
3. Game Pass, EA Access ~ $150/year
   
   
4. 8TB Seagate Drive Hub External HDD ~ $200
   
   This leaves you about $115 (depending on sales tax) in your budget for other games like Rocket League or Beach Buggy Racing or any game that you desire.
   
   And before I get trashed about the External HDD I chose that because with the Vault and Games Pass downloading games directly to your system, you will want a lot of storage so you are not constantly uninstalling and reinstalling games and the system can support up to 2 of those drives at once.

I know it’s nothing special, but this is my macsetup! I work primarily on video editing projects, some Photoshopping, with some Wordpress website building sprinkled in there. But this setup is used mostly for generic browsing, YouTube/Netflix, and Plex server hosting.


So this is my setup that I’ve built over the course of 4 years.

• Monitor - ASUS Designo MX279H 27”
  
• Wallpapers - Reddit user u/aenami
  
• Computer - Apple 13” Retina MacBook Pro (Late 2013), 4GB RAM, 128 GB SSD
  
• Computer Stand - twelvesouth HiRise for MacBook
  
• Desk mat - PRÖJS from IKEA
  
• Keyboard - Apple Magic Keyboard (AA battery version)
  
• Mouse - Logitech MX Master Wireless Mouse
  
• Tablet - Apple iPad Air 2, 64 GB, Gold
  
• Tablet Stand - Griffin A-Frame
  
• Phone - Apple iPhone 6, 64 GB, Space Grey
  
• Phone Stand - Twelve South HiRise for iPhone/iPad
  
• Speakers - M-Audio AV32
  
• Headphones - Audio-Technica ATH-M50x
  
• USB Power Hub - Not sure exactly what brand it is, but it’s similar to this one.
  
• USB Data Hub - Anker USB 3.0 7-Port Hub
  
• WD easystore 8TB (Not pictured)
  
• 2x - Western Digital 4TB My Book
  
• 2x - Western Digital 2TB My Passport
  Hard Drive Toaster - StarTech.com HDD Docking Station
  
• UPS - APC Back-UPS Pro 1500VA UPS (Not pictured)
  
  
  Little sumo man was a gift from a friend. Custom R2-series astromech droid was purchased a trip to Disney Paris. And I name my external hard drives after characters in movies and TV shows that I enjoy.
  
  
  Let me know if you have any questions!

It really comes down to the read/write speed requirements she'll have. With a 256GB SSD and some file management, you could keep your working files on the SSD for max IO speed, and move archived projects onto an external drive that runs on something like USB 3.0. SSDs aren't totally necessary for anything but the most bandwidth-intensive jobs like editing 4K video. For graphic design work, file sizes are reasonable and you don't need to constantly be reading tons of data, so a regular external HDD should be fine.

We use this Seagate 5TB drive that comes well recommended by Wirecutter for Time Machine backups, and it'd also work well for storing data for your wife.

Dang, you just missed out on some good external HDD deals. I picked up this 4TB Western Digital MyBook for $100. If you don't care about the space factor, or having to have a separate power connection, I think the MyBook's will probably be your best bet as far as $/TB.

In general, I personally think the brands are a wash. There will be complaints about certain manufacturers from everyone, but in general, you're looking for best price per TB. I'll keep my eye out and send you links if I find any good deals in the next few weeks.

I have used this drive for a while now without issues, it is only a 5400RPM drive but the performance gains from a 7200RPM drive is minimal. The main reason why I got this drive is that the matte plastic matches the plastic around the xbox disk drive and also the vents if you like making things match. A word of warning though you will need to reformat the drive through a PC (Windows / Mac / Linux) before it will work on the Xbox One, if you go with it just let me know what type of computer you have and I can give you some help in doing so it will only take 5mins and not cost a dime.

If you want cheep, Toshiba is the brand that I would say has a good blend of quality for the price.

Don't worry much about brands and such though, everyone will get a lemon now and then regardless of drive, but thats why we have warranties; also most of the drives are sourced from the same factories as the other guy.

I just got a 4 TB external drive. Best thing ever! I now have like 50 games installed now. Look on Amazon, tons of great options.

Here's the one I got:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B017KE8OG0/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_z.SLzbHYXSS32

WD Elements 10TB for $160 is a solid deal. These are easily shuckable and have WD White drives inside (which are basically Reds for all intents and purposes). I've got six of these in a NAS setup and I love them.

I am a fan of Seagate and use the 2TB versions of one of these https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Game-Drive-Green-STEA2000403/dp/B01065S79E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1469156555&sr=8-1&keywords=seagate+xbox they even have a 4TB unit now for $149. I like them because they are a nice small self powered drive. Easy to take to a friends house if you want to. If you don't like the green (which you pay a bit more for) you can get the Seagate branded black ones a bit cheaper 1TB to 4TB starting at around $55 to $120. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B017KE8OG0/ref=twister_B00TS6JL4S?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

https://www.pcmag.com/roundup/361227/the-best-wireless-hard-drives

Looks like the WD Passport Wireless Pro is the best deal.
https://www.amazon.com/Passport-Wireless-Portable-External-Drive/dp/B01F5LVTO4
1TB $137, 2TB $138, 3TB $178, 4TB $141
4TB is the largest offered and cheapest.

So, regarding this hard drive:

http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-Canvio-Basics-Portable-Drive/dp/B00N2S6ZUQ/

It's the only reasonably priced 1TB one that I can find. I see that it doesn't have its own AC power source, which is fine as my power strip by the TV is near full as it stands. However, I've seen that people have issues with HDDs such as these because the drive can't pull enough power from the Wii U. Does a Y-cable completely mitigate this issue, and if so is there any certain one that people recommend with it? Sorry about all the questions, just trying to get the best bang for my buck here. Everyone commenting has been very helpful. However, the wiki doesn't seem to be all-inclusive and the hard drives it links to are currently more expensive than I can justify.

Honestly, I think it's better to get into the habit of backing things up onto physical drives. Hard drives are extremely cheap nowadays ( this 3TB Seagate is only $79). It's a good practice, and you're not going to always have reliable internet when you're on set to use the cloud. I personally have two 4TB hard drives as safety nets in addition to my primary 4TB hard drive where footage is uploaded. It shouldn't be that much of a hassle if you just name your file folders accurately and keep everything neatly compartmentalized.

I looked into the Toshiba stuff, looks decent (lots of it 7200RPM), but what do you think about this drive?

https://www.amazon.com/Black-Passport-Ultra-Portable-External/dp/B00W8XXYN2/ref=sr_1_6?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1465506883&sr=1-6&keywords=Western+Digital+4TB

It's the one drive I have found (that's not Seagate) that is bus powered. Seems to have nice reviews too. 3TB should be enough as well.

I really know nothing about hard drives haha, all I'm looking for is portability, capacity, and (preferably) speed.

For the enclosure, I went with the [BUD Industries CU-247](http://www.amazon.com/BUD-Industries-CU-247-Aluminum-Econobox/dp/B005T7RNE0/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1405999009&sr=8-3&keywords=cu-247
). I created a template of the mounting holes and cut the box accordingly.

I found this barrel jack at radioshack and I liked it: [barrel jack](http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2102486&znt_campaign=Category_CMS&znt_source=CAT&znt_medium=RSCOM&znt_content=CT2032231
)

Adafruit has HDMI and Ethernet panel mount cables: Ethernet, [HDMI](https://www.adafruit.com/products/978
)
A local micro center opened up near me and found this great little hub, [Inland 7 port usb](http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817205010&cm_re=inland_7_port-_-17-205-010-_-Product
), it was cheap since it doesn't come with a wall adapter. There was no need since I desoldered the existing barrel jack and wired it to the switch and panel mount barrel jack.

Front panel Switch: Waterprooof Metal ON/OFF Switch

Fan found on Newark/Element 14: Sunon 5v fan or you can get [NMB 5v fan] (http://www.newark.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=15003&langId=-1&urlRequestType=Base&partNumber=64K2283&storeId=10194). I desoldered one of the usb from the hub and connected the fan directly to it. I also didn't want dust picked up by the fan, so I bought a [fan filter assembly](http://www.newark.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=15003&langId=-1&urlRequestType=Base&partNumber=56P2964&storeId=10194
) as well.

I picked up a WD my passport ultra 2 TB but I decided I wanted more space, so I bought a seagate backup plus slim 2TB since it was slimmer. It also worked out for the bracket I used to hold them in. Kingwin 2 bay PCI-E HDD Frame

I also picked up some cables: Right Angle USB for the RPi, Right angle usb 3.0 cables for the HDDs, and a double right angle USB cable.

I used Sugru for mounting the RPi, HDD frame, and holding the hub in place.

It wasn't shown in the pictures, but I also picked up a FLIRC so I can use any remote. I do know that the RPi can send commands over CEC as well with new TVs.

I was looking to make more of these units, so If anyone is interested in buying, let me know.

I actually got it as a Christmas gift, but here's the one I have -

WD 3TB Black My Passport Ultra Portable External Hard Drive - USB 3.0 - WDBBKD0030BBK-NESN https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00W8XXYN2/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_VPx7xbH8Y8HY7

I love that there's no external power cord. I just use the USB port in the back of my Xbox and the HDD just sits back there completely hidden.

I'd recommend Western Digital over Seagate. From what I've heard, Seagate has a much higher failure rate.

Seagate Backup Plus Slim 2TB Portable External Hard Drive with Mobile Device Backup USB 3.0 (Blue) STDR2000102 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FRHTTIU/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_htZqyb388527Z

I priced match at my local target. You gotta remove the casing but it's very simple with a flat head screwdriver. I think the guide also shows you how to remove it and format it.

I'd take care of the hard drive before messing withe the PS4

Make sure you back up your saved data to the cloud first if you have PlayStation plus. Otherwise a flash drive will work.

I use this 4 TB USb 3.0 external hard drive which I got at a pretty heavy discount close to a year ago now (list price is $195 Cnd and I got it for like $125). The speed is good and I've never had a problem with it. The size is also good enough that I've only had to start recently deleting my old raw footage.

Deluxe gives a few small items but nothing that is a huge deal. The deluxe I feel is not really necessary, but to each their own. The season pass gives 3 story expansions (or additional story content at least). I recommend the base game plus season pass (or get the season pass later).

You can gift, there should be a button to "Buy AS Gift" on the Xbox Website. The physical and digital games will be the exact same file size.

Hard drives are not too bad this day and age. Really anything about 256 GB and USB 3.0 works. You can get drives for 50 bucks or so.

It all depends on size and brand. Search Amazon for "Xbox One External Hard Drives" if you want to research more.

[Here is Amazons Choice for Xbox One Hard Drive] (https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Game-Drive-Green-STEA2000403/dp/B01065S79E/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1523033744&sr=8-3&keywords=xbox+one+external+hard+drive)

By Canadian standards, the elements 8TB is a great deal. Don't forget to factor US state sales tax and 13% HST into the 10TB easystores - unless you've been in the US >48 hours you ain't bringing them back tax-free. Given the difficulty of sourcing the EasyStores without an AmeriFriend (Best buy blocks freight forwarding addresses), the next best option is to buy the 10TB elements from Amazon.com's Black Friday sale and ship them directly to Canada: https://www.amazon.com/10TB-Elements-Desktop-Drive-WDBWLG0100HBK-NESN/dp/B07G3QMPB5/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1542916212&sr=8-1&keywords=elements+10TB

Though this will increase your cost/TB calculation by a fair bit and certainly won't beat the 8TB Elements from BestBuy.ca. The only reason I mention it is that the WD 10TB white-label drives are helium-filled (less heat) and have unusually low power consumption. This is a big draw for me when filling a 24 bay chassis. YMMV.

The QNAP box offers good value, but if you decide to go a bit more hardcore, you really can't beat the ebay deals on used Supermicro 846BA-R920B boxes. The 846BA-R920B is ideal for 3 reasons, aside from the obvious hotswap bays. Platinum level power supplies (super efficient), passthrough backplane without expanders (avoid all the stupid compatibility/stability issues with expanders), and finally, SAS2 multilane connectors so you have 6 cables going to the backplane instead of 24 like with the TQ cases. Example (there's a whole lot more than this): https://www.ebay.com/itm/SUPERMICRO-4U-846BA-R920B-2x-E5-2660-32GB-24x-TRAYS-3x-LSI-9210-8I-JBOD/172518422437?epid=13010847355&hash=item282ae637a5:m:mQskbuTLwikNI-Bax42GiIw:rk:20:pf:

I worked out the taxes-in $CAD/TB as follows: 8TB bestbuy $25.4, 10TB bestbuy.com $28, 10TB amazon.com $30.8

Obviously if you find a way to avoid NY sales tax and/or HST, the 10TB from bestbuy.com gets cheaper.

What are you intending to use it for? Watch for the WD My Book 8TB external to go on sale, it was $185 2 weeks ago. Shuck it from the enclosure. It's a white labelled WD Red. Some power supplies provide 3.3v on the 3rd pin which prevents the drive from spinning up. Lots of ways around it posted online.

Link to the drive:
https://www.amazon.ca/Western-Digital-External-Drive-USB-3-0-WDBBGB0080HBK-NESN/dp/B01LQQHLGC/ref=pd_rhf_gw_p_img_6?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=VM8X9Q36B0AG6SY7D2TP

I use this $145 wireless hard drive to back up sd cards at the end of each day. (I don’t erase the cards themselves until I’m back home and they’re properly backed up)

I’m considering buying an iPad Pro to do some light editing and processing and some cloud backup, but it’s a big investment, I could get a really nice lens for that money...

I have a 13” mbp that I use for jobs on location but it has never crossed my mind to bring it on travels. I wanna stay light and mobile, and have everything of value on me when staying in less safe places.

I think it'll work for PC too. The Xbox One will take any USB-external drive. If you're using it for media storage (e.g. movies, music), then it's plug and play. If you want to use it to store Xbox games and apps, then you will have to choose the popup option to format it for Xbox and that this will erase any existing data on it. You can format it for Xbox and then take it back to PC and, if you had chosen to format it for Xbox then you'd need to reformat it there on PC (which will, again, erase all the data).

EDIT Of course, you should definitely confirm that before buying, but for what it's worth, other Seagate "game drives" like this list PC as a supported hardware platform.

It might be good to compare the Price of a Slim against the original version. The Slim has no real value except being smaller than the original PS4. The Original One might be even cheaper.

Also you can always check if you don't want to upgrade the Storage yourself through internal or external HDD (External must be between 250GB and 8TB).

So it might be cheaper to buy the original Ps4 with an external HDD that has 2 or 4 TB

https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/get-help/help-library/system---hardware/storage---data/ps4--external-hdd-support/

For example:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-PlayStation-4-500GB-Black/dp/B01GVQVQH2/ref=dp_ob_title_vg (slim version)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/External-Devices-Data-Storage/Seagate-Expansion-Portable-External-Drive/B017KE8OG0/ref=sr_1_6?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1498217164&sr=1-6&keywords=external+hard+drive

With that you would have a Ps4 Slim and 4,5 TB (4TB external 500GB internal) storage for just about £350

I got this one a few weeks ago [Seagate 5tb] (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J0O5R2I/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) when it was $130. Works like a champ and I haven't noticed any difference in game play speed wise.

I was going to say I lucked into the 3 TB for $79.99 a few months ago but I just checked to make sure I quoted that price right and apparently it's again on sale for that price: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00TKFEEJ4/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

EDIT: If you're willing to wait 3 to 5 weeks that is.

EDIT Part II: It's a Seagate. Fuck it, it's a good deal I'll leave this post here. :)

EDIT The Trilogy: And only for Amazon Prime members. Okay I'm done.

I've been using this on a recent three week holiday and I highly recommend it. I didn't bring a laptop with me :)

Most of the negative reviews on Amazon relate to trying to use it as a streaming media device which it doesn't do well. As a backup device for SD/microSD cards it works excellent.

But, I would recommend not wiping and reusing the memory cards so that you have TWO copies of your photos and videos for redundancy in case something happens to one or the other.

I bought an 8TB Western Digital external with USB 3.0 back in July 2016. No issues and I'm very happy with it. Ever since I've only bought digital downloads and have 4TB or so left. I paid around $250 back then and now Amazon has an updated version for $150. It's one that I recommend.

WD 8TB My Book Desktop External Hard Drive, USB 3.0 - WDBBGB0080HBK-NESN https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LQQHLGC/ref=cm_sw_r_em_apa_i_Sk-CDbQ1BEJM5

I've always loved the WD Greens.

Cheap over in the US!

Naked drive: http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Green-Desktop-WD40EZRX/dp/B00EHBEUZO/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1418753182&sr=8-2&keywords=wd+green

Same drive (I think) in an enclosure for cheaper (rip it out and plug it in): http://www.amazon.com/Book-USB-Hard-Drive-Backup/dp/B00E3RH61W/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1418753221&sr=8-1&keywords=wd+book

Worst part about this is I'm going to have to buy that 8 TB drive to hold all the games they've given us since GWG has came out.

I really enjoyed Halo 3 when they ported it over. It was such a blast playing with some people who never quit the game and pretty much were friends since they were almost the only ones still playing.

Really took me back to when my friends and I all had the time to hop on Halo 3 after work and play from like 7pm to 11pm a few nights a week.

With that said, Modern Warfare 2 is the only reason I have my 360 still plugged in. I'm not sure if I'm going to sell my 360 when that game gets ported over or sadly box it up and just put it into storage the rest of its life.

Why would you go with $160 for 6 TB Seagate Barracudas when you can get a higher quality WD NAS drive with 8TB of capacity for the same price?

Shuck these and they have drives similar to the WD Reds which retail for much higher:
https://www.amazon.com/Book-Desktop-External-Drive-WDBBGB0080HBK-NESN/dp/B01LQQHLGC

It's not 20% less though.

Seagate Expansion $139
https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-STEB8000100/dp/B01HAPGEIE

WD Elements $150
https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Desktop-Hard-Drive-WDBWLG0080HBK-NESN/dp/B07D5V2ZXD

WD My Book $160
https://www.amazon.com/Book-Desktop-External-Drive-WDBBGB0080HBK-NESN/dp/B01LQQHLGC

That all depends on how much spare you're wanting. If you want to get an enclosure hard-drive you could buy one of these and put thousands of GB together, and have a couple hard drives going to your Xbox One (this also depends on how big your Xbox One library is)

or you could just buy a my book drive I currently use one of these myself on my Xbox One and love it.

I personally think 4TB hard drive is more than plenty for the first few years of Xbox One gaming.

Another thing to take into consideration would be do you plan on doing mostly exclusives and a few games for Xbox One? then 2TB would be perfect. But if you plan on having all of your games on an Xbox One I'd highly suggest getting a 4TB hdd. I myself have almost 20 Xbox One games worth nearly 1TB in storage and its very handy to have.

Is Seagate Game Drive for Xbox 2TB Green (STEA2000403) good? Because in its description says (like every hard drive company) "Works flawlessly with Xbox One and Xbox 360." This hard drive is cheap in my country. On Amazon, its price is $124.97 with shipping cost and estimated import fee. I can buy this if can save me from uninstalling games. :) https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Game-Drive-Green-STEA2000403/dp/B01065S79E

If you're just adding a couple HDDs to your PC then don't worry about going over your power supply's rated use.

But if you're curious have a look at this http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-2148649/psu-calculator-trust.html



My advice is to not buy external drives because you will always buy more HDDs and eventually you'll have 5-10 externals each taking up a power socket and lots of floor space.

Instead I would recommend buying a large (6-10TB) internal drive. That way you will end up with fewer HDDs so that means less power use, less SATA cables/slots used etc.

If you buy small 2-5TB then you'll need another in a short while, where as if you get an 8TB it'll take a lot longer.

When storing media it's a when and not an if you need more drives.


But to answer one of your questions, just buy one of these 8TB drives. Inside are WD Reds IIRC which isn't a shabby drive at all. Have a look around to see if you can get the same product cheaper, sometimes bestbuy etc has it on sale.

Amazon has 8tb wd external drives for $200. I'm not sure if they are shuckable though..
There are some listed as used-like new by Amazon warehouse for $180
WD 8TB My Book Desktop External Hard Drive - USB 3.0 - WDBBGB0080HBK-NESN https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LQQHLGC/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_taa_F7ltzbWTMQVQ0

1. Yes I would suggest getting an external hard drive, I would recommend this one
   
   
2. If you put in the disc or download of a backwards compatible game, it just plays on your Xbox One. Keep in mind that to open up the 360 menu whilst on the backwards compatible game you have to press the View Button and the Menu Button at the same time.
   
   
3. It's the same Xbox Live account you don't have to pay extra fees or anything and you can still use it on your Xbox 360. Everything stays the same, achievements, avatar, gamerscore.
   
   
4. I don't really know many f2p games so I won't give you my input on that.
   
   
5. Nothing too big about security, you can find everything in the security options.

I personally edit of the internal fusion drive in my 2012 iMac and store footage and personal stuff on a 5TB desktop hard drive (almost full).

Hind-sight 20-20, I would have preferred to get a larger raid array for my desk, something on the order of 20TB. Then also have a 500GB or bigger external SDD for fast editing of my current 1 or 2 projects. And then also a 2-4TB external hard drive for on-site backup and transporting large files. I don't know how I would like that setup, but from those that have some of the components, it seems like it would be a great setup. I would then reserve my computer hard drive for personal stuff.

If you are a digital media hoarder like me then you are better off with NAS where you can add hard drives as they fill up. Look at Synology DS418 or equivalent QNAP version.

This is going to be very expensive if you go this route with cost of NAS + multiple hard drives.

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Cheaper option is to stick in an 8TB drive like WD 8TB My Book. It often goes on sales between $110 - 120. If you are in US thanksgiving sale is close and you might get one then.

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My set up is an old windows home server holding all media/data which shares media across all my devices in home (20TB).

For the shield I just have a 128GB sandisk Ultra USB drive attached to it to expand space.

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I'm not the guy you're responding to, but at $99, here's Amazon's cheapest 3 Tb external:

http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-STEB3000100/dp/B00TKFEEJ4/

Although if I were you I'd pony up the extra $18 and go for this one:

http://www.amazon.com/Book-Desktop-External-Drive-WDBFJK0040HBK-NESN/dp/B00E3RH61W/

Not only do I have more confidence in WD over Seagate, you also get an extra 1 Tb for that $18. Then again, if you don't care about brand, you can get 4 Tb for only $10 more:

http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-STEB4000100/dp/B00TKFEE8K

Or you could go nuts and get 5 Tb for $129:
http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-STEB5000100/dp/B00TKFEEBW/

-If you use your music unlimited trial, make sure to turn off the auto-renewal.

-If your TV supports RGB Full, enable it on BOTH the TV and PS4. Use a calibration image in the web browser to see that all of the blacks are correct (you should see different shaded squares).

-Replace the hard drive early to spend less time transferring things over (if you plan to replace it at all). At this point most people are getting a 2TB by taking it out of this external.

-Remember to pick up both of your PS+ games every month. There's also warframe, war thunder, and blacklight retribution for free.

-Generally just go through the settings and edit things such as privacy to your liking.

Really, aside making sure you don't get suckered into paying for music unlimited it's pretty plug and play. I did see a huge difference by enabling RGB full on my TV and PS4 though. Some TV's don't support it. The hard drive is optional, but the games 40-50gb and the stock hard drive will only fit 8-9 of them.

This toshiba 1tb is cheap, fast (usb 3.0 transfer) and convenient. You don't need to mess with enclosures and it's a lot of space.

Edit: rpm's don't matter much when watching movies. The important thing is a good transfer speed. With USB 3.0 it transfers for me 80mb - 100mb per second when i'm transferring huge games, movies or large photo files. :)

Amazon canada has been selling at that price for months now: https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B01LQQHLGC/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A3DWYIK6Y9EEQB

I love how Newegg calls it a "sale" by setting their regular price $150 more than amazon, then claiming "sale" by setting it like everyone.

Hi,

Currently the Acer Spin 5 is on sale on Amazon for the Deal of the Day, and it has: i7-8550U processor, 8 GB of RAM, 256 GB SSD storage, and 1080p 13.3" touchscreen display. The laptop has a decent battery life, expect at least 7 hours for light general use. For photo editing, it should be a great fit, it has decent color coverage. The laptop is both 2-in-1 and touchscreen. You can use an external hard drive, like a 1 TB external hard drive for more storage.

Update on the 2TB drive? did it work without a hitch?

Did you buy the 139.99 one? or the 99$? ( I'm an online Noob shopper. Never bought online, so I'm not sure what 'bid' means. I thought you just bought something at the price it was listed. Also, I'm Canadian, so I may have to look for other offers)

and did you see this?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FRHTTIU/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Little removal process and you've got the same thing, but with a neat blue case for recycle and a little cheaper.


TL:DR- Did the HDD work fine? What did you pay?


EDIT: ignore the amazon post. Looking at other option, you save nothing. They're all roughly 110$ give or take a couple dollars.

For those that want to use them as externals for backups - If you figure in the sales tax that you are going to have to pay at Best Buy, spend another ~$10 and you get the newer, non Best Buy model with an extra year of warranty, and the build in encryption and auto backup.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822235160

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1273853-REG/wd_wdbbgb0080hbk_nesn_8tb_my_boo.html

https://www.amazon.com/Book-Desktop-External-Drive-WDBBGB0080HBK-NESN/dp/B01LQQHLGC

What /u/DrWoolyNips said. However, beyond the list, generally any USB 2.0 hard drive will work, as long as it's formatted properly. Although if you're going to buy a drive, you'd probably be better off getting something like this or something else in that form factor. That exact model is what my Wii runs off, and this style has the added advantage of being smaller and being pretty much tanks (I've dropped and knocked over my setup more times than I care to admit). Of course, if you have that drive lying around, just give it a shot and see if it works.

Surely has an external storage, like this one

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072QH2JCL/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_i_1EvlDb12J3NMX

I have one.. its amazing

I’ve been using this one since 2013. Only downfall is it has its own power cable but that’s not so bad to me since it’s tucked away behind everything anyways. Hope this helps!!

Seagate Expansion 3TB Desktop External Hard Drive USB 3.0 (STEB3000100) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00TKFEEJ4/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_ZctVAbZ140QXF

Edit — just realized you said you’re looking for 1-2 TB... you can just search amazon for seagate portable external hard drive and you could find a good one. I don’t think it has its own power cable either.

http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-Canvio-Basics-Portable-Drive/dp/B005J7YBRW/ref=sr_1_2?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1418062855&sr=1-2&keywords=Portable+hard+drive

Love these Toshiba Canvios. Pretty good pricing on them year round. I've had no issues on my 750gb over the past year and I just picked up a 1TB one for my girlfriend.

External hard drive if he doesn't have one, is a great option. Something like this would be good:

http://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00W8XXYN2/

I have the Seagate Game Hub (8 TB) and it's been great. It has extra USB ports, too:

https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Drive-Storage-Ports-STGG8000400/dp/B072QH2JCL

If that's too much storage, there's a 4 TB version (without the USB ports) that comes with two months of Game Pass:

https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Drive-Storage-Ports-STGG8000400/dp/B072LX7WLP

And a 2 TB version that comes with one month of Game Pass:

https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Drive-Storage-Ports-STGG8000400/dp/B0723CMH14

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unsure :/ the 4tb also listed on the same page linked above was $90 yesterday, but has since gone up to $110.

Looks like Amazons version (WD MyBook) also looks to have a WD Red on the 8tb sku (per the reviews) has been hovering around $200-$210 since February.

https://camelcamelcamel.com/Book-Desktop-External-Drive-WDBBGB0080HBK-NESN/product/B01LQQHLGC

For $50, you're not going to get more than 500 GB of space. That might be more than enough right now, but you should know that hard drive space gets cheaper and cheaper the more you buy in one go. The first 500 GB will cost you $50, and that's with a cheap brand (Toshiba). The next 500 will cost you just another $20, and that's from a much more reputable brand. Then you can double your space to 2 TB for just another measly $10. After that, the price goes up pretty linearly, at a rate of about $10/TB.

My point is, if you're going to invest in a hard drive, it's better to spend a little more to get a lot more space. You get far more bang for your buck that way, and with the way download sizes on games and media are growing these days, 500 GB won't last you nearly as long as it used to.

Totally agree! Just bought one off amazon actually. It was the best i could find with 2tb.
http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Backup-Portable-External-STDR1000100/dp/B00H4XH5FY

link here^^^

tutorial here: http://imgur.com/a/JF5jA

Yes they are.

The one you linked to is the previous model, and only comes with a 1 year warranty if you live in good ol' Murica.

However, the newer model is the same price, linked here on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-External-Desktop-Storage-STEL8000100/dp/B01HD6ZLQ6/ref=pd_sim_147_5?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B01HD6ZLQ6&pd_rd_r=YJWM1G0DVDF6AH9GJV5R&pd_rd_w=lnDwR&pd_rd_wg=mlKbJ&psc=1&refRID=YJWM1G0DVDF6AH9GJV5R

comes with a 2 year warranty, and the hard drive inside is rated at a higher max temperature.

I'd suggest buying the newer model. For the same price, you get the better rated model (both are 5900 rpm Archive hdds however) and double the warranty.

>The main reason is to update Word. I edit in Word for various university press clients, and an important one told me all their files shared online are in Word 2011. So I think they expect me to have it. It's also a pain to have to use a converter every time I receive a file in .docx.

I'd recommend the latest version of Office. It's dramatically improved over older versions. You don't want to play with Apple's version of Word, called Pages. It's great, but you need to be opening and saving these files with the same program that your client is using so formatting doesn't get screwy. And the last thing you need is a bunch of versions of each file, as you import it to Pages, then export back to Word.

If you go with an Office 365 subscription, you get the iPhone apps, too, which are well designed. But a one time purchase isn't bad if that's your preference (especially if you're fine continuing to upgrade so rarely).

>If I upgrade to the latest OSX, should I first put all current Office 2004 files onto a thumb drive? I guess I don't understand what you mean by saying that upgrading the OSX would kill earlier programs. Is there a way to know which ones, and does it mean that no pre-upgrade files can be used anymore?

You need to have all of your stuff backed up before doing the upgrade, even if it's just on a thumb drive (though I'd really prefer you get something like this.) In fact, you need to have everything backed up, period. You're working with an old machine and some day it will die.

What I mean by kill programs is that the Word program itself won't open. All of your documents, pictures, etc will work perfectly fine. It's just that the old app you're using to open your Word files won't work, but if you get the current version of the program, it will open all your files. If you use any other programs that you got from someone other than Apple, they may need to be upgraded.

>I currently have 6 GB RAM and 146 GB free space on my hard drive.

RAM sounds fine. If you can afford it, replacing your hard drive with a solid state drive (no moving parts) will dramatically increase the speed at which everything opens when you need it. Just a matter of personal preference, though. You've got plenty of space so upgrading isn't a requirement.

Combine that with two USB3 (shuckable) 10Tb for £150 each ( https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07G3QMPB5/ref=dra_a_rv_mr_ho_xx_P1300_1000?tag=dradisplay0bb-21&ascsubtag=e33d7bf9dc8fd5ec9d11c92010884e8d_S ) and you have 20Tb of storage in a 4 Bay NAS for £600. Of course with two bays spare for future expansion. That's pretty amazing!

Would this be worth pairing with a hard drive enclosure to work as an XB1 hard drive?

Looks like with the $5 discount and the the enclosure, it would total $70 before tax. So it would be 7,200 RPMs speed using this bulkier setup vs. $86 for a 5,400 Game Drive that has the same storage capacity. I have no idea if it would need some type of formatting or would be plug and play though. But a cheaper price and better performance along with a free PC game is hard to pass up.

I use this. It'll be a while before I run out.

https://smile.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-STEB4000100/dp/B00TKFEE8K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1480207957&sr=8-1&keywords=4gb+external+hard+drive

You can copy the games on your internal drive over to external or just leave them on your internal drive. you can setup up xbox to download all future games to the external drive.

Also, make sure that you save a few GBs of free space on your internal drive for because backwards compatible games need to install some files (few MBs) on the internal drive.

Whoa. Hold up. Do you have a memory card for every single event/wedding/session?

I appreciate your wanting to keep everything backed up. Very responsible and professional!

There's an easier way though... Check it:

External Hard Drive:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00TKFEEBW/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

PORTABLE External Hard Drive (doesn't require wall plug-in <fuck off, thunderstorms!> and much more convenient... for a price.)
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00W8XXYSM/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Wow I forgot the link.

WD 2TB Black My Passport Portable External Hard Drive - USB 3.0 - WDBS4B0020BBK-WESN https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079V4L9BD/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_mG9kDbVKEXHA4WD

2TB Black My Passport  Portable External Hard Drive - USB 3.0 - WDBYFT0020BBK-WESN https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LQQHF2W/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_Fr9kDb1T60V38

Those are the two I was trying to compare.

Some nodes haven't any incentives now to maintain themself other than maintaining the network.

They are doing it for free now.

After a possible increase of the space, this is the cost of a 5 TB hd:
http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Desktop-External-Storage-STDT5000100/dp/B00J0O5R2I/

I'm sure that there are cheaper.

There are also other nodes that are maintained by the industry, and by making the Bitcoin money more liquid, the market will increase.

With a bigger market and then more services, there will be more nodes that are needed to be sure to know what is happening on the network.

Miners don't seem to have problem of money for buying a new hd...

> The main data source is on a btrfs raid1 filesystem

Do you take regular BTRFS snapshots? If so then the data might still be there.

For offsite, the simplest solution would be a USB drive that you keep at work or a friend's house. (You should probably encrypt your data first.) Amazon has a 3TB drive for $70. It's a pretty slow drive so if you had to restore the whole 900GB, it would take about 6 hours.

Your paying extra for the Xbox green which is abandoned on the console itself. Like others on here I use a 5TB seagate which sells on Amazon for $130 Amazon. I've been using it for over a year and loving it, It even looks like a mini Xbox. The one I'm linking I think is a newer model then the other one previously linked this is why they have a different look. http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Desktop-External-Storage-STDT5000100/dp/B00J0O5R2I

Yeah I got this one for $130 on black friday: http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Backup-Desktop-External-STDT5000100/dp/B00J0O5R2I

Pretty good deal.

I bought the Seagte 8TB stand up drive, and still havent filled it up. Was 160 USD on sale. One of the best purchases I've ever made.

Edit: Here it is

The best part of tech is it continues to drop in price. Also it has a passthrough that is recognized by the xbox, so you can use USB devices on the drive, and it'll be usable on the Xbox.

WD is a reputable brand. This one's pretty cheap and works great. I have one plugged into my Ps4

snag this external HDD, it has been awesome for me! Comes in a few different storage capacities, good price, and slim size

The problem is that my 3 old hd dont have vents, they are like this:

https://www.amazon.com/d/External-Hard-Drives/Elements-Desktop-External-Hard-Drive/B002QEBMCI

And I rather not "open" them just to be safe... think a fan would still help? Thanks!!

While I am sure there are others out there, I am just recommending this one since I have purchased from them before and can vouch for their customer service quality.

Could also check Amazon as they have pretty consumer protective return policies.

Edit -

And something like this is what I mean when I say move the 1TB HDD to a portable enclosure. Let's you buy a reasonable sized SSD (256gb) and not feel like you need to go big with a 512/1TB SSD since you can still get your storage on the portable drive.

https://www.amazon.ca/ORICO-2588US3-Screw-Less-2-5-inch-Enclosure/dp/B00IWOZAAQ/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1540313103&sr=8-3&keywords=2.5%22+hdd+enclosure&dpID=4178f2u7SLL&preST=_SY300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch

The 2TB Xbox One S launches at $400 though. You could get a deal on 500GB current model right now with Kinect for $279 and you can get a 3TB external HDD for $120 or less, giving you an Xbox, Kinect, and 3.5TB storage for the same price.

Unless you really care about 4K blu-ray, it's way better to get a regular Xbox right now.

Could get a "wireless harddrive" from the likes of WD or seagate.

https://www.amazon.com/Passport-Wireless-Portable-External-Drive/dp/B01F5LVTO4/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=WD+My+Passport+Wireless&qid=1556761493&s=gateway&sr=8-3

Or if you are a tinkerer another option would be to get a raspberry pi which runs off 5v (can be 12v with the right adapters and converters). From there can enable the wifi onboard to be an AP and setup a media center/stream box.

Get you these drive and shuck them, save you about $100 per drive.

WD 10TB Elements Desktop Hard Drive - USB 3.0 - WDBWLG0100HBK-NESN https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07G3QMPB5/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_mRQODb8W4Q393

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00E3RH61W/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

It was a little cheaper then, and there are definitely more options available now with more space. Works like a charm though.

Any standard external USB drive will do what you need. Some do come with extra software that helps automate backups, but you aren't required to use it and it can almost always be easily removed.

Something like this would work if you'd like something compact and to avoid extra power cables.

Yes 4TB WD My Book. Got it over a year ago when it was on sale for $69. Never had an issue and don't notice it at all. Once set up is complete, it just works.

> RPI4 has usb3 and full gigabit network, so for NAS purposes, it's completly fine.

2x USB 3.0 ports means you're quite limited in expansion. Even this cheap motherboard supports 4x SATA connections.

The Rasp. Pi4 itself can only reach 300MB/s read/write speeds. Modern hard drives are around 200MB/s, which means you're CPU-limited (or perhaps internal bus-limited) on mirrored-drive setups. (200MB/s across 2x drives == woooops, Rasp. Pi too slow for that)

10Gbps Fiber switches are only $240 now. You can remove the network bandwidth by using DAC SFP+ ports and an Ebay'd Mellanox Connectx-3 (under $50).

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Actual SATA drives give you more flexibility as well as better specs. Consider this 8TB USB Drive. Do you know if its SMR or PMR? I bet you its shitty SMR and simply undocumented on the materials. SATA-drives are just better documented and labeled than USB-drives in my experience.

Why avoid SMR? Well... because it sometimes hits 10MB/s transfer speeds., that's sequential mind you. 10MB/s is slower than many people's internet connection, let alone Rasp. Pi. So if you want any degree of reasonable responsiveness, you should stick with PMR or CMR drives only.

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A common NAS setup would be 3x hard drives (RAID5 like, or RAIDZ, with one parity drive). You simply don't have enough USB connections for that however.

The short answer is that you activated iCloud Music Library, a way of storing your iTunes library in the cloud on your computer.

This MACWORLD article gives a good intro to what you experienced, and this iMore landing page links to several articles about iTunes, local vs iCloud music storage, and more.

Personally I don't deal with music in the cloud, aside from a subscription to Apple Music (which I love and which has almost completely eliminated the amount of listening I do with my own music: 36,000+ songs so far, with a couple of hundred CDs still unripped and sitting in boxes). I do not use iCloud Music Library, instead keeping all my music on a drive (and a backup drive, and BackBlaze online backup

WD 4TB My Book Desktop External Hard Drive - USB 3.0 - WDBFJK0040HBK-NESN https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E3RH61W/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_.-WQybX2CFSRM

I got it for like $100 several months ago. I just plugged it in and formatted it and never have had a problem.

What's the difference between OP link and this WD drive. When I scroll down to the "compare similar items" section, it shows an extremely similar drive to OP link. Looks like the one I linked is a 2015 model while the other is 2013.

im using 2 of these. my old comp didnt really have the option to expand with internal drives so went USB and it works perfectly fine for my needs and is convenient for when/if i need to take my files to go for whatever reason. just me here streaming though, not sure if multiple people streaming at same time would work the same.

Seagate Backup Plus Hub 8TB
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01HD6ZLQ6/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

i used wd 2tb my passport ultra https://www.amazon.com/Black-Passport-Ultra-Portable-External/dp/B00W8XXYSM until i ran out of space and now i am using transcend storejet 4tb https://www.amazon.com/Transcend-StoreJet-2-5-inch-USB3-0-Portable/dp/B01JTMNASS. both are very good

Cases are hard, especially at your price range. Read the reviews, make sure they can fit your pieces, and make sure the reviews say they have good cooling. I can't really make a recommendation at your price range. You have to decide what you are going to sacrifice to bring it under your budget.

> I currently have this https://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-Canvio-Basics-Portable-HDTB210XK3BA/dp/B005J7YBRW. is it any good?

I don't know but the reviews look great. It won't go inside your case, but it could be plugged into a USB port. If I was you, I would plug that sucker in a usb port on the back of my case and use it until I can afford a 1TB internal HDD

Best buy and Amazon currently have 2TB Western Digital My Passport Ultras for $89. I don't have the hopper (I have the ViP722k), but it was still fairly easy to transfer programming from my old receiver to a replacement receiver. I had about 170GB of programming to transfer, and it took ~8 hours each way. btw, these EHD's are USB powered.

No, it isn't, and here's why:

This is $6, weighs less than a gram, has no moving parts to break and is smaller than a stick of gum. Much like the HDD shown, it too requires a laptop or desktop to be useful. This is handy.

This is $179, which is more than the DJI unit, but it has a built in card reader AND a battery so you can use it in the field AND wifi so you don't even need to dig out a cable when you get home. That is handy.

If you want a 2tb external drive, here ya go - It's $70 (almost half off the DJI price), save yourself some time and just write DJI on with a sharpie.

WD has the same offer on Amazon if anyone prefers it to Seagate. Just got the 4 TB one myself and it works like a charm.

EDIT: Also this sale has been active for a few weeks now, it's not a cyber monday exclusive

I have this if you're interested.

WD Elements 2 TB USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002QEBMCI/ref=cm_sw_r_other_awd_f4-KwbZ5QDHQ2

So just to clarify, it's these, right? https://www.amazon.com/Book-Desktop-External-Drive-WDBBGB0080HBK-NESN/dp/B01LQQHLGC/

I'm itching to kick start my new media storage vault, but I'm still uncertain which one to buy. Shucking is super easy, zero problems doing it.

Is there any chance at all that I won't get a Red out of it? I keep seeing some reports of some people getting Blue equivalents...

Through my research on these forums I ended up picking up this http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00E3RH61W/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 You could go smaller with the 2 or 3tb version as well. Works like a champ.

At the moment i use an older model of this. But im sure if you google good external/portable hard drives you can find better options.

Depends, most seem to be 5400rpm.

This drive can have the internal removed and you'll end up with this.

Of course this is done by me looking real quick and finding a $70 one. I can guarantee if you search enough you can find external 7200rpm drives on sale and get a bunch of them. Removing the shell is very easy and you can resell them for like $5.

Ofertas previas al viernes afro:

• JBL Charge 3 (90 dólares)
  
• ASUS VG248QE 24" (170 dólares)
  
• AOC G2460PF 24” (180 dólares)
  
• Acer GN246HL 24" (192 dólares)
  
• GOPRO Hero 7 y Samsung 128GB 100MB/s (U3) (199 dólares)
  
• Logitech G933 (90 dólares)
  
• Samsung 860 EVO 1TB (128 dólares)
  
• Samsung 970 EVO 500GB M2 (117 dólares)
  
• WD 4TB Elements Desktop Hard Drive (90 dólares)
  
• WD 8TB Elements Desktop (150 dólares)
  
• WD 10TB Elements Desktop (200 dólares)
  
• Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 DRAM 3000MHz C15 (125 dólares)
  
• Xbox One S 1TB Console - Minecraft Creators Bundle (200 dólares)
  
• Logitech G502 Proteus Spectrum (48 dólares)
  
• Logitech G600 MMO Gaming Mouse (35 dólares)
  
• Fire HD 10 Tablet (100 dólares)
  
• NVIDIA Shield TV | 4K HDR (140 dólares)
  
• Kindle Paperwhite (130 dólares)
  
• Xiaomi Mi Box - 4K (62 dólares)
  
• SanDisk 128GB Ultra Fit USB 3.1 (20 dólares)
  
  De nada...

he said external hardrive.. but still you're on the right track. i have this and its worked great so far. not too slow, though it's not lightning fast. also my computer is a piece of shit.. so take that into account.

Your money might be better spent just getting a large capacity external HDD. I got a 3TB Western Digital Passport and it is fantastic.

This is what I have, works great for me. I highly recommend it

Seagate Expansion 4TB Desktop External Hard Drive USB 3.0 (STEB4000100) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00TKFEE8K/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_Nvo.BbKR4207N

I'm putting this here because I don't want to flood the main sub with what I'm able to find. So here goes:

Headphones| Price

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[ATH-M50x Headphones] (https://www.amazon.ca/Audio-Technica-ATH-M50x-Professional-Headphones/dp/B00HVLUR86/ref=sr_1_1?s=prime-day&psr=PDAY&ie=UTF8&qid=1499757226&sr=1-1&keywords=headphones) |$150 in cart. $250-$300 everywhere else I check
[Sennhieser HD 598 SR Headphones] (https://www.amazon.ca/Sennheiser-HD-598-SR-Open-Back/dp/B06WRMZZ45/ref=sr_1_1?s=prime-day&psr=PDAY&ie=UTF8&qid=1499757356&sr=1-1&keywords=hd+598) |$109 Record low
[Audio-Technica ATH-M40x Headphones] (https://www.amazon.ca/Audio-Technica-ATH-M40x-Professional-Headphones/dp/B00HVLUR54/ref=sr_1_6?s=prime-day&psr=PDAY&ie=UTF8&qid=1499758834&sr=1-6&keywords=bose) |$180 - $38 = $141
[August EP650-Bluetooth headphones] (https://www.amazon.ca/August-EP650-Bluetooth-Wireless-Headphones-Leather/dp/B00F54Y6GU/ref=sr_1_2?s=prime-day&psr=PDAY&ie=UTF8&qid=1499759484&sr=1-2&keywords=headphones)| Was $99, now $58
[August EP640 Bluetooth Headphones] (https://www.amazon.ca/August-EP640-Rechargeable-built-Smartphones/dp/B00MHOFR78/ref=sr_1_1?s=prime-day&psr=PDAY&ie=UTF8&qid=1499772544) |was $80, now $37
[Prime Day Bluedio T2S Headphones] (https://www.amazon.ca/Bluedio-Shooting-Bluetooth-headphones-wireless/dp/B00Q2VIW9M/ref=sr_1_4?s=prime-day&psr=PDAY&ie=UTF8&qid=1499759635&sr=1-4&keywords=bluetooth) | Was $20, $21 in cart no tax
Prime Day Bluedio V Headphones | was $200, $140 in cart no tax
[AUSDOM ANC 7 Bluetooth noise cancelling] (https://www.amazon.ca/Cancelling-Headphones-AUSDOM-Bluetooth-Comfortable/dp/B01LZ7Q5R1/ref=sr_1_4?s=prime-day&psr=PDAY&ie=UTF8&qid=1499808109&sr=1-4&keywords=aptx) | was $100, now $50. Well reviewed!
[Sony Extra bass bluetooth headphones] (https://www.amazon.ca/Sony-MDRXB950B1-Extra-Headphone-Model/dp/B01N5UVZBP) | was $200, now $99


Earbuds| Price

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[Aukey Arcs Bluetooth Sport] (https://www.amazon.ca/AUKEY-Bluetooth-Headphones-Microphone-Sweatproof/dp/B01EWUP4NQ/ref=sr_1_4?s=prime-day&psr=PDAY&ie=UTF8&qid=1499804815&sr=1-4&keywords=headphones)| was $24, now $14
[1MORE Triple Driver earbuds] (https://www.amazon.ca/1MORE-Headphones-Earphones-Compatible-Microphone/dp/B01KB9K9Z0/ref=lp_17037466011_1_4?srs=17037466011&ie=UTF8&qid=1499766067&sr=8-4&th=1) | Was $131, $106 in cart

Bluetooth misc| Price

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[Anker Premium Stereo Bluetooth 4.0 Speaker ] (https://www.amazon.ca/Anker-Bluetooth-Subwoofers-Portable-Wireless/dp/B0107WH8Q4/ref=sr_1_6?s=prime-day&psr=PDAY&ie=UTF8&qid=1499800448&sr=1-6&keywords=subwoofer) | was $130, now $60
[Trond bluetooth receiver] (https://www.amazon.ca/TROND-Bluetooth-Receiver-Headphones-Speakers/dp/B01M9I0LSK/) | Was $25, now $20. I have one its awesome
[Altman Bluetooth Transmitter/receiver] (https://www.amazon.ca/ALTMAN-Bluetooth-Transmitter-Receiver-Wireless/dp/B06Y25PGBG/ref=sr_1_1?s=prime-day&psr=PDAY&ie=UTF8&qid=1499803431&sr=1-1&keywords=aptx) |was $43, now $26



CPU Coolers| Price

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[CORSAIR Hydro Series H100i v2 Extreme ] (https://www.amazon.ca/CORSAIR-Extreme-Performance-Liquid-CW-9060025-WW/dp/B019EXSSBG/ref=sr_1_1?s=prime-day&psr=PDAY&ie=UTF8&qid=1499757440&sr=1-1&keywords=corsair) |$110. Historic [all time low] (https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/product/CrDzK8/corsair-cpu-cooler-cw9060025ww)
[Corsair Hydro Series H115i Extreme Performance] (https://www.amazon.ca/Corsair-Extreme-Performance-Liquid-CW-9060027-WW/dp/B019955RNQ/ref=sr_1_3?s=prime-day&psr=PDAY&ie=UTF8&qid=1499756838&sr=1-3&keywords=corsair) |$155 (temporarily out of stock)
[MasterLiquid Pro 240 All-In-One] (https://www.amazon.ca/MasterLiquid-Technology-Chamber-MasterFan-Radiator/dp/B01E5XNP5Y/ref=lp_16927652011_1_24?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1499766384&sr=1-24) | was $140, now $95 [Historic low] (https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/product/sqmxFT/cooler-master-cpu-cooler-mlyd24ma20mbr1)

PSU| Price

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[Corsair CS650M] (https://www.amazon.ca/Corsair-Modular-Efficient-Supply-CS650M/dp/B00GH9NA2I/ref=sr_1_11?s=prime-day&psr=PDAY&ie=UTF8&qid=1499757999&sr=1-11&keywords=corsair) |$110. Not the lowest but okay
[EVGA SuperNOVA 550 G3] (https://www.amazon.ca/EVGA-SuperNOVA-Modular-Warranty-220-G3-0550-Y1/dp/B01LWTS2UL/ref=sr_1_1?s=prime-day&psr=PDAY&ie=UTF8&qid=1499759891&sr=1-1&keywords=evga)| Was $130, now $99 [historic low] (https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/product/sMM323/evga-supernova-g3-550w-80-gold-certified-fully-modular-atx-power-supply-220-g3-0550)

Cases| Price

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[Corsair 780T full atx case] (https://www.amazon.ca/Corsair-Graphite-780T-Full-Tower/dp/B00LA6POK4) | $189 in cart. Not an [all time low] (https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/product/sNJwrH/corsair-case-cc9011063ww) but not bad
[Corsair Carbide 400C white] (https://www.amazon.ca/Corsair-CC-9011095-WW-Carbide-Compact-Mid-Tower/dp/B01F97W9ZM/ref=sr_1_12?s=prime-day&psr=PDAY&ie=UTF8&qid=1499813131&sr=1-12&keywords=corsair) |$105 in cart

HDD| Price

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[Seagate Backup Plus Hub 8TB] (https://www.amazon.ca/Seagate-External-Desktop-Storage-STEL8000100/dp/B01HD6ZLQ6/ref=sr_1_3?s=prime-day&psr=PDAY&ie=UTF8&qid=1499758359&sr=1-3&keywords=hdd) | $270 - 51 = $219
[Seagate 4TB BarraCuda Pro ] (https://www.amazon.ca/Seagate-BarraCuda-3-5-Inch-Internal-ST4000DM006/dp/B01MSW4MNS/ref=sr_1_4?s=prime-day&psr=PDAY&ie=UTF8&qid=1499758359&sr=1-4&keywords=hdd)|$245-75 = $170 [Historic low!] (https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/product/qRtWGX/seagate-barracuda-pro-4tb-35-7200rpm-internal-hard-drive-st4000dm006)
[Seagate Backup Plus 4TB Portable] (https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B0196J43TE/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A3DWYIK6Y9EEQB&psc=1) | Was $160, now $135 [all time low] (https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/product/NyQRsY/seagate-backup-plus-4tb-external-hard-drive-stdr4000100)
[Seagate Firecuda 2TB] (https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B01M1NHCZT/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1)| was $126, now $85 [Historic low] (https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/product/zk7CmG/seagate-firecuda-2tb-25-5400rpm-internal-hard-drive-st2000lx001)
[Seagate Firecuda 1TB] (https://www.amazon.ca/Seagate-Firecuda-2-5-Inch-Internal-ST1000LX015/dp/B01LWRTRZU/ref=sr_1_1?s=prime-day&psr=PDAY&ie=UTF8&qid=1499767750&sr=1-1&keywords=ssd) | was $83, now $60 [Historic low] (https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/product/w6x9TW/seagate-firecuda-1tb-25-5400rpm-hybrid-internal-hard-drive-st1000lx015)

Input Devices| Price

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[Logitech G13 input pad] (https://www.amazon.ca/Logitech-G13-Programmable-Gameboard-Display/dp/B001NEK2GE/ref=sr_1_21?s=prime-day&psr=PDAY&ie=UTF8&qid=1499761901&sr=1-21&keywords=board+games) | Was $75, now $55 [Historic Low] (https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/product/jbvZxr/logitech-keyboard-920000946)
[Corsair Gaming K70 LUX RGB MX Brown] (https://www.amazon.ca/Corsair-Gaming-Mechanical-Keyboard-Backlit/dp/B01ER4B7YM/ref=sr_1_6?s=prime-day&psr=PDAY&ie=UTF8&qid=1499770080&) | was $180, now $160 [Historic low] (https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/product/34M323/corsair-k70-lux-rgb-wired-gaming-keyboard-ch-9101012-na)


Networking| Price

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[NETGEAR Nighthawk X8 AC5300 Router] (https://www.amazon.ca/NETGEAR-Nighthawk-Tri-Band-Quad-Stream-R8500-100CNS/dp/B01A85Y9TE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1499760240&sr=8-1&keywords=NETGEAR+Nighthawk+X8+AC5300)| was $499, now $290
[TP-Link AC3200 Tri band router] (https://www.amazon.ca/TP-Link-Tri-Band-Beamforming-Archer-C3200/dp/B00YY3XSSA/ref=sr_1_3?s=prime-day&psr=PDAY&ie=UTF8&qid=1499760450&sr=1-3&keywords=modem) | Was $249, now $175
[Netgear 16-Port Gigabit Switch] (https://www.amazon.ca/Netgear-16-Port-Gigabit-Ethernet-Desktop/dp/B01AX8XHRQ/ref=sr_1_6?s=prime-day&psr=PDAY&ie=UTF8&qid=1499760948&sr=1-6&keywords=ethernet) | Was $106, now $75 in cart

MISC| Price

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[Logitech C922x Webcam] (https://www.amazon.ca/Logitech-Stream-Webcam-Streaming-960-001176/dp/B01LXCDPPK/ref=sr_1_5?s=prime-day&psr=PDAY&ie=UTF8&qid=1499760799&sr=1-5&keywords=computer) | was $130, now $89. All time low
[Acer KG251Q 1080p Freesync monitor] (https://www.amazon.ca/Acer-KG251Q-bmiix-FREESYNC-Technology/dp/B06X6HJ1SF/ref=sr_1_6?s=prime-day&psr=PDAY&ie=UTF8&qid=1499762804&sr=1-6&keywords=monitor) | Was $230, now $170
[M9S PRO android tv box] (https://www.amazon.ca/Leelbox-M9S-Pro-Android-6-0/dp/B01MD0NZPK/ref=sr_1_2?s=prime-day&psr=PDAY&ie=UTF8&qid=1499767387) | Was $130, $98 in cart
[Cyberpower 600w UPS] (https://www.amazon.ca/CyberPower-CP1000PFCLCD-Sinewave-Compatible-Mini-Tower/dp/B00429N192/ref=sr_1_1?s=prime-day&psr=PDAY&ie=UTF8&qid=1499803529&sr=1-1&keywords=ups) | was $224, now $125


I'll try to keep tabs on everything but let me know if there are any errors or price updates. And as a side note, I'm actually getting downvotes for this? I can't see how there could possibly be a sane explanation for that.

 

EDIT: Updated 7:00pm EST!! Let me know if there's anything you see and I'll put it in here!

 

EDIT: I've put everything new as of Jan 11, 4:00pm in bold. Also, check this post on RedFlagDeals for a great big list of deal

 

EDIT: Its all over everyhone. Hope you snagged something cool beyond bitter disappointment this year!**


 

WD 8TB My Book Desktop External Hard Drive - USB 3.0 - WDBBGB0080HBK-NESN https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LQQHLGC/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_46S8Bb8G8WRPB

That's the one I bought and it has worked great for me. Able to install most of my games. It does need a power source but I feel it's worth it.

And with the purchase I just made, I'm probably done for Prime Day.

This year's damages:

• Amazon Prime 1-Month Subscription = $12.01
  
• Anker Wired Vertical 5 Button 1000/1600 DPI Mouse = $11.19
  
• Seagate 3TB Desktop External Hard Drive = $69.99
  
  No PrimeDay-specific discounts, just ordered these as well:
  
  
• Monoprice 3.5mm Female to 2 RCA Female Adaptor = $3.98
  
• Seville Classics Mobile Laptop Desk Cart = $34.99
  
  
  Additional Promotional Credit Used: $15
  
  Total tax across multiple orders = $9.73
  
  Final Cost: $126.89
  
  All items are expected to arrive tomorrow via free one day shipping!
  
  I'm definitely sad that Taotronic Boom X was listed to have a lightning deal, but was sold-out half an hour before it even went live. I've been keeping an eye on that specific model for like two weeks.

When you want to share an Amazon link - shorten it to the "/dp/<10 character long Amazon Standard Identification Number>" like this

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07G3QMPB5

​

I've been using this external from this link for the last year and I love it. There is also an updated version at this link as well for slightly cheaper.

4TB $84.99 Seagate Expansion 4TB Desktop External Hard Drive USB 3.0 (STEB4000100) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00TKFEE8K/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_TKcKBb88X69QM

I have the 5TB. It's amazing. Easy to use. 10/10

Could always get one of these if you prefer Amazon. Pretty sure they have the helium filled white labels from HGST. In the 8TB model anyways.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LQQHLGC/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

1.) You can get my favorite 2TB external hard drive now for under $100. Unless you've already gotten an S that's a much cheaper way of getting extra storage.

2.) Grab the free Games with Gold for this month if you haven't already. You get 48 Xbox One and backwards compatible Xbox 360 games a year this way, and I highly recommend Forza Horizon (even if you don't like racing you can still drive around at your leisure) and Mirror's Edge, with Earthlock and Assassin's Creed Chronicles China shaping up to be solid.

3.) Get EA Access. Even without any of the sports games, it's awesome to be able to get Battlefield 4 and Hardline, Dead Space, Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare 2, Unravel, and Titanfall, all of which are far more valuable than the $30/year membership.

4.) My favorite exclusives are Gears 1-Judgment (which I got from preordering Gears Of War Ultimate Edition and you can get by preordering Gears Of War 4 or installing your old 360 discs or digital copies if applicable), Halo The Master Chief Collection, Sunset Overdrive, and Titanfall.

5.) Get Life is Strange. You and even your non gamer friends and family members will thank me later.

WD 2TB Black USB 3.0 My Passport Portable External Hard Drive (WDBYFT0020BBK-WESN) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LQQHF2W/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_jMPtzbC3WGG03

Best Buy has it too, a little more but they will price match Amazon

8 TB seagates externals are on sale at Amazon for 150 Just shuck the drive and you're good to go :P or keep it external.

Or get a mybook for 170, shuck it and keep the enclosure and you're ok for warranty. Just put the drive back into it before you ship it back and say you had to take it out for data recovery.

You might also look into this drive. I have the older version and it's worked perfectly fine for the past 16 months.

There's no real good summary in the comments here, and I just looked into all of this since I'm in the same situation.

Nintendo recommends you use an externally powered hard drive, like this. The single USB port doesn't have enough power to use a more portable hard drive, like this, unless you have a Y-cable, like this. The Y-cable provides enough power to the hard drive for proper operation since there are two usb ports. The problem is that Y-cables can be hard to find locally, and you almost always have to order them online. Mine is taking 3 weeks to get here.

Flash drives can also be used, but Nintendo says that the constant writing and re-writing that occurs on the drive as a result of gameplay can eventually corrupt what is on the flash drive, possibly deleting data and save files. Of course, it's up to you what you do, but the general consensus is that externally powered hard drives are the most reliable way to go.

If you google "Nintendo Wii U Hard Drives" Nintendo has a whole page on it. Can't link to it since I'm at work.

Thank you so much!
>Also, the timings on that patriot RAM is total dogshit at 19-19-19-43 at 2666mhz. Like I didn't even know they made DDR4 Ram with that bad of timings.

I didn't know the ram I picked was that bad. D: Time to read about ram timings, until now I only looked at the speed(Mhz) and if it was DDR4.

>EDIT: I didn't touch the case because honestly, I don't know if I can find something comparable in that price range.

Sadly the case is out of stock now :(. So, if you can find a decent case around the $20-30 usd mark I would appreciate it !

>You can always grab a Hard drive later or if you have one in an old pc, just reformat that one and install it.

I currently have this https://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-Canvio-Basics-Portable-HDTB210XK3BA/dp/B005J7YBRW. is it any good?

EDIT: So I found these ones thermaltake versa h17 and DIYPC Alnitak-BK Black. Not sure which one is better though.

I saw a lot of recommendations for the Toshiba Canvio 1TB USB 3.0 external hard drive back when I was looking to expand my console's storage. $60 for a reliable 1TB hard drive that's also small and light? I was all over it.

Keep in mind that it doesn't have an AC adapter - it draws power directly from the USB line, and the Wii U doesn't supply enough power to one USB line to power the device. You need a USB 3.0 Y-cable (plug this cable directly into the device) or a USB Y-adapter (plug the drive's provided USB cable into this adapter.) Then you'll have two USB plugs leading to the same device. Don't worry, only one line carries data, but both lines carry power. Insert the two plugs into the USB ports in the back of the Wii U and you're golden.

These adapters are only like $5-$8, but get them from Amazon. I spent a week trying to find them anywhere else while I waited for a third-party seller to ship it. Best Buy, Fry's, Radio Shack, Target, Wal-Mart - nobody even knew what I was talking about.

Alternatively, get an external storage device with its own power supply. I don't have a recommendation for that. You could also use a USB flash drive but those aren't designed for constant writing - they will eventually fail.

If you want to take the time to learn how to do it you can hook up one of these to your television with an external hard drive (first one I found) while running ubuntu. While it would take a bit of skill to set up it would also run you under 300 dollars.

IPA is available for linux

Setting up a linux home server/torrent box

I've been entertaining this idea myself after I read about someone making a dedicated torrentbox with a RasberryPi.

EDIT: This is only going to consume somewhere around 5-10$ of electricity per year whereas a home server would be running closer to 200+. Another thing to consider.

Dont do it! Spend just a bit more! Trust me, it's worth it for that extra gig.

Any particular enclosure I should be looking at? I suppose it makes a difference? I see some for $15 like this: ORICO 2588US3 Tool Free Screw-Less USB 3.0 2.5-inch External Hard Drive Enclosure Adapter Case for HDD SSD SATA Drive - Black https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00IWOZAAQ/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_YLfRzbZ3RES9N

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Don't do it. You have no idea what brand / quality of drive is inside that enclosure, and on top of that, both Seagate and WD have external USB3 3TB drives on Amazon at $99.

Also, you should check any local Walmart locations around you. It seems they're clearancing a lot of their HDDs, including 3TB units from Toshiba, Seagate, and WD. I picked up several in the $50 range yesterday morning. There are numerous threads about this on Slickdeals.

Now I'm confused...the one on Amazon isn't the same one that BB is selling?

WD 10TB Elements Desktop Hard Drive - USB 3.0 - WDBWLG0100HBK-NESN https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07G3QMPB5/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_RUJ5BbTE3C4DK

http://www.amazon.com/Book-Desktop-External-Drive-WDBFJK0040HBK-NESN/dp/B00E3RH61W/ref=sr_1_9?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1453414918&sr=1-9&keywords=external+hard+drive

That's what I have 4TB. Works like a charm and I haven't had a problem with games at all on it.

I just picked up this 5TB Seagate yesterday. The finish is exactly the same as the shiny side of the Xbox, so it looks fantastic on top of it.

http://amzn.com/B00J0O5R2I

Thank you! Would something like this suffice? https://www.amazon.ca/ORICO-2588US3-Screw-Less-2-5-inch-Enclosure/dp/B00IWOZAAQ/ref=sr_1_12?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1519615065&sr=1-12&keywords=external+hard+drive

Go to Amazon.com. Type in "USB 3.0 hard drive". Pick one. I got a 4TB Seagate with fantastic reviews for $80. Loved it so much, I bought 2 more (1 for my PS4 and 1 for my laptop). It's $90 right now, but still not bad.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B017KE8OG0/ref=twister_B00TS6JL4S?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

Forgive my ignorance but you seem pretty knowledgable about these parts and I know nothing about computer hardware - I bought this https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00N2S6ZUQ/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_HH0wCbY7KF72G and ran FH3 off it fine but now when running FH4 off it I'm getting "stability issues" with random crashes - switched to the internal and still having issues. Judging by the price difference I assume the HD I have now isn't good enough to run the new game without these issues but neither is my internal hard drive apparently....so if I get a better external HD I won't have these problems(I ask because the cheapest ones look to be 150$+) Seems kinda insane they built a game that's so advanced the consoles it was made for cant even run it properly.

I would recommend using this OTA DVR between your Cable box and tv (or xbox one) and a USB stick or USB hard drive, Any type of USB storage is needed for the DVR function. (it can hold up to 2TB max per drive)

Once your cable is gone, you can attach an antenna to it and continue to use the DVR with your xbox one for Over the Air channels with the xbox one guide.

Or you can get something like This TV Tuner stick for your PC and connect your Cable box to it and record shows on to your PC.

I ended up getting:

Samsung 860 EVO 2.5" SATA III 500GB Internal SSD (MZ-76E500B/AM) https://www.amazon.ca/Samsung-500GB-Internal-MZ-76E500B-AM/dp/B0781Z7Y3S/ref=sr_1_3?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1525567267&sr=1-3&keywords=SSD+evo+860

With enclosure:

ORICO 2588US3 Tool Free Screw-Less USB 3.0 2.5-inch External Hard Drive Enclosure Adapter Case for HDD SSD SATA Drive - Black
https://www.amazon.ca/ORICO-2588US3-Screw-Less-2-5-inch-Enclosure/dp/B00IWOZAAQ/ref=pd_lpo_vtph_229_bs_t_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=KPJ4QXV2BX203KN7X2HV

Just like the guy who posted his setup before me, I 10/10 recommend. Its actually insane how much of difference it makes

These two. I own both and I love both. The hub obviously for home and the small one for when I go to a buddy's place.

https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Drive-Storage-Ports-STGG8000400/dp/B072QH2JCL/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1520528499&sr=8-2-fkmr1&keywords=xbox+external+hard+drive+8th


https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Portable-External-Drive-WDBU6Y0020BBK-WESN/dp/B0713WPGLL/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1520528609&sr=1-1-spons&keywords=western%2Bdigital%2Bexternal%2Bhard%2Bdrive%2B5tb&th=1

I'm looking to get a new 4 TB bus powered drive. I have something else that is a plug in, and its SO loud that I can't take it anymore. Every time I do something on screen I can hear it "thinking" and loading.

Looking for a QUIET drive. I know this green one is overpriced but is it quiet? What about this one? http://amzn.com/B017KE8OG0

Thanks!

Question guys, Super Mario 3D World: Physical or Download???

P.S.: and Im gonna be using this http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Desktop-External-Hard-Drive/dp/B002QEBMCI as my external hdd...

Yep. Sec, ill find the one i have and edit a link in.

Seagate Expansion 4TB Portable External Hard Drive USB 3.0 (STEA4000400) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B017KE8OG0/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_.ao1Bb646YNVG
Now, thinking on it, im sure you can also(if needs arise) buy a hard drive above 2-3tb that will fit. Must be a 2.5 seta hard drive, and if you have a pc masterrace friend they likely have 2 or more hard drive slots and could copy your old hd to the new one for you. ;)

2TB WD is currently $74.75 on Amazon and $79.99 at Best Buy, B&H,
Newegg and Office Depot.

You can use camelcamelcamel for alerts and price history.

There is a myBook currently on sale for 160 USD.

See the sidebar for WD Easystore compendium -->

Uh...huh? I'm talking about these WD Elements.

If people don't mind it being sent from the US the WD 10TB Elements is down to £155.45 + £6.72 UK Delivery.

https://smile.amazon.co.uk/10TB-Elements-Desktop-Drive-WDBWLG0100HBK-NESN/dp/B07G3QMPB5/

I'm using a 4TB WD My Book WDBFJK0040HBK-NESN

I bought a 1TB Toshiba one off of Amazon. I've had it for two years now, and haven't had any problems. Games saved on there don't lag at all.

https://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-Canvio-Basics-Portable-Drive/dp/B00N2S6ZUQ/ref=sr_1_1?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1481662862&sr=1-1&keywords=toshiba+external+hard+drive