Reddit mentions of WD 2TB Elements Portable External Hard Drive - USB 3.0 - WDBU6Y0020BBK-WESN,Black

It has to be a USB 3.0 hard drive. Supports up to 8TB. Something like this is perfect https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Portable-External-Drive-WDBU6Y0020BBK-EESN/dp/B00D0L5BH8/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1486131704&sr=8-6&keywords=usb+3.0+external+hard+drive

Can this be removed from its case and used to upgrade the internal PS4 drive? Seems some models were able to do that.

Edit: Amazon has followed suit at $39.99 for anyone who's interested. (And the 2TB model for $74.) I still don't know if it can be used as an internal drive, but the reviews say it's 5400 rpm so it might be too slow for that?

https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Portable-External-Drive-WDBU6Y0020BBK-EESN/dp/B00D0L5BH8/ref=pd_lpo_147_tr_t_3?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=M1NFEEP9G4H6552V0ZR0

I use this.

I've been happy with Western Digital over the years. If USB 3.0 is what you're looking for, I'd get one of these:

https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Portable-External-Drive-WDBU6Y0020BBK-EESN/dp/B00D0L5BH8


Just use Disk Utility on your Mac to reformat it as MacOS Extended, and you'll be good to go.

Pick up gear at the REI flagship in downtown Denver (maybe a little Sour Diesel while you are in Denver). Drive to Boulder, then Nederland. There are several lake shore camping options in the Indian Peaks and James Peak Wilderness. Indian Peaks requires a permit, but I don't believe it to be difficult or expensive. Options would include Diamond Lake, Jasper Lake, Woodland Lake. James Peak Wilderness directly to the south has Forest Lakes, Crater Lakes and rogers Pass Lake.

Bear Track Lakes in Mt Evans Wilderness is probably within your driving range in a southwesterly direction from Denver. I'm nat as familiar with that area. If you extend your range by 1 or two hours more stuff opens up. You should have plenty of options though. Have fun! Read up on mountain safety, i.e. bear country precautions, altitude sickness, being off high altitudes in the afternoon, etc. It's easy to be safe, you just have to be aware. My recommendation is to go between last week in June and mid August for the best weather, wild flowers etc. Best to do a good layer system with non-cotton layers and expect anything with the weather up there, could get down to 20-30 degrees in summer. I always use a 20 degree bag and sleep in merino long underwear.

Have fun, it is an amazing experience.

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Edit: u/WeAreThePizza has a really good recommendation for Missouri Lakes, I think that is closer to 3hr drive from DIA though.

> You buy an external drive for that. Way fucking cheaper.

I call bullshit. Why would a hard disk with a case wrapped around it be cheaper than a bare one?

Looking at WD 2TB models on Amazon I found this (cheapest bare one, £58.50 / quoted RRP £76.96), and [this] (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Elements-Capacity-Portable-Drive-Windows/dp/B00D0L5BH8/ref=sr_1_7?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1450550783&sr=1-7&keywords=wd+hdd+2tb) (cheapest external one, £64.25 / quoted RRP £109.99)

To expand on that:

2TB portable external HDD: $70

1TB portable external SSD: $310 - $397

1TB USB Flash Drive: $700? - $2.5k

The Amazon result was the only I could find that was selling a 1TB flash drive (ebay has them too, but ebay also has a lot of fakes); which I believe had a starting price of 700 dollars when it was first released. But given that nobody seems to sell them anymore, it seems this Amazon retailer decided to jack up the price.

Kerberos IO is optimized for Raspberry PI, so you can set up a cron script to run nightly and move or delete files older than a certain age.

I have not set that up myself yet, but so far that is my leading contender.

http://amzn.com/B06XTPY13N

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http://amzn.com/B00D0L5BH8

I just bought this WD 2tb. This one is 74.99 and has great reviews

I have not.

I am currently using this as my external storage for the full picture.

Couldn't be bothered to lug that half pound around I see

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00D0L5BH8/ref=pd_aw_lpo_147_bs_lp_img_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=XGBFRGTAH68RVXSKBF56

I payed a lot more for this in my country.

I use this one, it works pretty well:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00D0L5BH8/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1484520469&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=2+tb+3.0+external+hard+drive&dpPl=1&dpID=41vfPu4cirL&ref=plSrch

Crazy to think Best Buy has this for $130 when not on sale, when you can buy the 4TB version for $110 on Amazon Link

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 personally use this one:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00D0L5BH8/ref=twister_B00D5KK930?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

Its quite cheap monetarily and i have had no issues. Keep in mind the games saves are stored only on the internal HD, so if there are any problems you won't lose your saves.

2 TB is a great space option. It will allow you to hold a ton of things and you shouldn't run out of space if you only have a few games and apps

Toshiba Canvio Basics 2TB Portable Hard Drive - Black (HDTB320XK3CA) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00N2S6W86/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_IqoOyb4TV5J9D

This one is very good and a great price. I had it for about 2 years, but gave it to my friend since I upgraded to a 5TB.

I would say go with 2TB. 1TB in my opinion just isn't enough since you have to sacrifice about 150-200 gbs to software. Plus 2TB is usually only 20-30 dollars more than 1TB.

WD 2TB Elements Portable External Hard Drive - USB 3.0 - WDBU6Y0020BBK-EESN https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00D0L5BH8/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_ZxoOyb5FG9SE6

Also this one. Western Digital also makes good hard drives.

This one.

Right, OP is saying that an external SSD (or an internal one, like the one in the Elite console) will speed up the load times in-game.

I don't have any recommendations, but you'll pay a significant price premium (for the amount of space you get) if you go with an external SSD... I just used a regular 2TB external hard drive on my console (something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Portable-External-Drive-WDBU6Y0020BBK-EESN/dp/B00D0L5BH8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1483652928&sr=8-1&keywords=wd+2tb), and it works really well for game storage, and things load pretty quickly as well-- Battlefield 1 aside :)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00D0L5BH8/ref=oh_aui_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

> Ideally, anything that provides more on-chain scaling w/ smaller blocks is preferable.

But probably not sufficient, and there's no reason we can't have both.

> Decentralization is threatened by quadratic scaling

I still don't really buy this, certainly a position of 0 compromise on block size is ludicrous given the past and future improvements in storage capacity. Obviously, larger block size puts more pressure on storage at nodes. A 2 Terrabye Harddrive is $70 at the first link on Google, and probably cheaper if you looked around. Almost everyone who already runs a node has already gone to enough hassle and expense that I highly, highly doubt that would seriously change the equation and cause them to stop running their node.

On the other hand, on chain scaling will eventually increase decentralisation itself anyway, the Lightning network maybe keeps nodes decentralized but it introduces a new layer of payment hubs that themselves start getting centralised.

More transactions allows the value of Bitcoin to increase and more users to participate in the network - increasing the pool of people who potentially would run a node. We might raise the block size and discover that this factor is more significant than the people who shut down their nodes over $70. There's no way to know unless we try, and a block size raise to 2MB is not going to completely destroy Bitcoin, or even necessarily damage it.

No problem. Well, I'm using a 2 terabyte Western Digital Elements Portable HDD. The thing fits in the palm of your hand, is USB 3.0, and works well with the PS4.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00D0L5BH8/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1491594979&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=wd+elements+portable+2tb+external+usb+3.0+hard+drive

This good? https://www.amazon.com/WD-WDBU6Y0020BBK-EESN-Elements-Esterno-Portatile/dp/B00D0L5BH8/ref=sr_1_2?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1478997968&sr=1-2&keywords=hdd&th=1

Powered via USB 3.0, that's why I was asking.

You can use this one. My brother and I use them with our Xbox ones. https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Portable-External-Drive-WDBU6Y0020BBK-EESN/dp/B00D0L5BH8/ref=sr_1_3?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1482173613&sr=1-3&keywords=WD+my+passport+2tb

Thank you very much. Since this region is never really high in the sky where I live I just tried it between 30° and 40°. At my focal lenghts the impact of atmosphere is not that critical I guess.

I have had big projects before, but I always managed to get away with around 300GB of needed space overall and was able to use the internal SSD of my macbook. Sometimes I had to resort to average as stacking method because DSS does not need tons of swap space for this. The external drive I used is really not fast although it uses usb 3 as an interface.

https://www.amazon.de/dp/B00D0L5BH8/ref=twister_B06XKV4D8X?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

I will get a new macbook over my job within the next 4 months or so. May be I do not need to make up my mind on how to expand my storage. But if I still need more storage then I am leaning toward something portable again - 1TB Thunderbolt/USB3 SSD would work great I guess. I will wait however until I know what exact macbook model I will work with.

Dual slot ssd raid enclosures could also be worth a look but I am trying to avoid external power supply.

https://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/MEMDC2KIT/

Ended up researching into a bag and eventually found one I think will work well.

I will link to everything I've found on amazon. I have found others on our distributors website. Hopefully this will help others put together something as well!

Bag

SATA Adapter

Toolkit

Toner/Fox and Hound

Small LED Flashlight

Velcro Wire Ties - Zip ties are awful

Network Kit

External HDD

Analog Phone - For testing Fax Lines mainly

There's more, such as cables and things, but everyone should be OK with figuring that out for yourselves. Total the kit (with cables and stuff included) is only about $370.91 per technician.

Hope this helps someone!

Not much tinkering. You have some set up as the system needs to reformat the system, but overall there isn't much involved and it's pretty easy. But after that it's easy enough as popping a game in to install (or a download). Only requirement is that it needs to be USB 3.0. There may be something about desktop hard drives, but I'm not sure about that. I assume they will work just the same. Don't go for the gaming ones as they're just a waste of money. Go for something decent.

This is the one I have: https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Portable-External-Drive-WDBU6Y0020BBK-WESN/dp/B00D0L5BH8/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1511219957&sr=8-6&keywords=western+digital+external+portable+hard+drive

I use this drive on all three of my xboxes and it works great:

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

You could link to a SoundCloud, or put the sound file on a shared DropBox or Google Drive link.

Backblaze is pretty good for backups, but I always prefer local backups (like an external USB drive). You can get a Western Digital Elements USB3.0 2TB drive for about $80, which is a steal for that much space, plus it's small and portable.

Either way, backing up gigabytes of data is going to cost you some money, either in online service fees, or hardware purchases. I can't think of any free services off the top of my head, unless your data is relatively small and you can go with the free DropBox or Google Drive space they provide.