Hardware Bargains - Open Thine Wallet

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skimread said:
Any deal on 128GB usbc flash drives?
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Yoh !!! They are not easy to find..

Not sure if this is a good deal

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skimread said:
Any deal on 128GB usbc flash drives?
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I have the 32GB version of this and I am mightily impressed by the write speeds. Balena Etcher constantly gets around 80MB/s write speed when copying .img files across to it, compared to my Kingston USB3.0 which claims 60MB/s but in reality, is good for around 10MB/s
 
enerdude said:
SanDisk SSD Plus 1TB SATA 2.5 inch SSD - R1499 from evetech

Ok yes its Evetech although I never personally had issues with them.
Very impressed with this drive though, bought it towards end of June last year when Makro had it for same price on special.

So never used it much until about 60 days ago when I started chia mining. Out of the 0.5 PB written to the drive, 99% of that was done in the last 60 days. Drive still showing 100% health.
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PhireSide said:
I have the 32GB version of this and I am mightily impressed by the write speeds. Balena Etcher constantly gets around 80MB/s write speed when copying .img files across to it, compared to my Kingston USB3.0 which claims 60MB/s but in reality, is good for around 10MB/s
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Must say I have only had good experiences with Sandisk (which is owned by WD but in my opinion much better that their WD counterparts especially when it comes to ssds)

My sandisk nvme drive was hammered by chia plotting but if you look at the amount of TBW I got out of a 500GB drive it is pretty amazing:
 

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SauRoNZA said:
Either or.

Router will do the whole network, TV just the TV.

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You can even put the parental filter ones on kids devices.
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And the catch? Assuming nothing is for free?
 
Saba'a said:
And the catch? Assuming nothing is for free?
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No catch, does your current DNS service charge for it?

They sell a bouquet of other services and would of course like you to make use of those too but they don’t push it on you.

You can’t edit any of the blocklists and rely on their judgement unless you run it locally and replicate the service.

They have a new one coming which reading between the likes will allow you full custom access and they host it for you, but I’m sure that will have a fee.

It’s not all that different to PiHole or CloudFlare all of which are free.
 
IceQB said:
Some specs:

Brand Kingmax
Model
SMQ32 (KM480GSMQ32)

Capacity
480GB

Interface
SATA III

Sequential Read
Up to 540 MB/s

Sequential Write
Up to 480 MB/s

Form Factor
2.5"
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No stock most places, though really good price
 
Lupus said:
No stock most places, though really good price
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Yes, was just checking. None in PE.
Was considering getting a buddy in JHB to buy but seems like he had a heavy night
 
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