SSD price-per-GB expected to fall under 10 cents

[Ttaskmaster]

That is a very good price (I would have expected more like £100), and certainly SSDs aren't anywhere near that level.

It was a Seagate ExtHDD, from which I harvested the 2.5" drive. Might have been more expensive as a standard drive, but I needed the storage space for media.

[DanceswithUnix]

It was a Seagate ExtHDD, from which I harvested the 2.5" drive. Might have been more expensive as a standard drive, but I needed the storage space for media.

I've noticed you can often get a hdd in a USB case for less than the cost of a bare drive. Other than usually the warranty (which by removing the drive from the case you are probably voiding anyway) I have to wonder what parts of the drive they have skimped on If the drive is intended for backups then it won't be expected to have many run time hours, but then if it is for extending a game console storage then it's going to get one heck of a workout so they can't skimp *that* much.

[spacein_vader]

I've noticed you can often get a hdd in a USB case for less than the cost of a bare drive. Other than usually the warranty (which by removing the drive from the case you are probably voiding anyway) I have to wonder what parts of the drive they have skimped on If the drive is intended for backups then it won't be expected to have many run time hours, but then if it is for extending a game console storage then it's going to get one heck of a workout so they can't skimp *that* much.

Buying the USB drives and then removing the cases (known as shucking,) is common practice among data hoarders for that very reason. The internals tend to be the manufacturers own white label drives but there are many guides out there over which ones are likely to give you which drives. No guarantees but you can get some pretty good NAS rated drives most of the time if you buy the right ones.

[Ttaskmaster]

If the drive is intended for backups then it won't be expected to have many run time hours, but then if it is for extending a game console storage then it's going to get one heck of a workout so they can't skimp *that* much.

Well, it's a Seagate Baracuda according to the label, and is mainly for masses of media storage. Games will go on their own dedicated drive, as will the OS. I guess we'll see how long it lasts.

[DanceswithUnix]

No guarantees but you can get some pretty good NAS rated drives most of the time if you buy the right ones.

I did know about shucking, just didn't know WD often ship Red drives in the desktop externals. A quick look at 2.5in drives which I could have an immediate use for a cheap 1TB+ drive shows that they are largely native USB drives these days so looks like I am out of luck. That seems true of Toshiba and WD 2.5in drives, my long and disastrous history with Seagate makes them a trigger word for me so I haven't bothered looking up what they are using.