Large scale cheap storage deal...
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2020 11:12 pm
I don't know how many of you are into cheap large scale storage deals, but I stumbled onto this one at the local Sam's Club, and thought I'd pass it on to anyone else that hadn't seen it.
It is a 2 TB Seagate backup plus external drive. Technically, this is a Mac/ Windows back up drive, however, since I primarily use 'nix, I wiped that software off of it since I bought it for the space.
It says it has a max throughput of 120 MB/s, and that is probably true, but during my testing (transferring 249 GB of vm's), it was consistenly averaging 80 MB/s, probably fast enough to actually run an OS on comfortably, although maybe not fast enough for gaming, if your into that
Will test running some video streaming from it later on today, but for a 2 TB drive around $60., I got no complaints or problems noticed.
It is a 2 TB Seagate backup plus external drive. Technically, this is a Mac/ Windows back up drive, however, since I primarily use 'nix, I wiped that software off of it since I bought it for the space.
It says it has a max throughput of 120 MB/s, and that is probably true, but during my testing (transferring 249 GB of vm's), it was consistenly averaging 80 MB/s, probably fast enough to actually run an OS on comfortably, although maybe not fast enough for gaming, if your into that

Will test running some video streaming from it later on today, but for a 2 TB drive around $60., I got no complaints or problems noticed.