News This 8TB Inland PCIe Gen 4 SSD Is 27% Off, Still $1,100

[Admin]

Meta: 8 terabytes of PCIe 4 M.2 storage sounds wonderful. And it's on sale? No, don't tell me how much. I want to believe it's possible.

This 8TB Inland PCIe Gen 4 SSD Is 27% Off, Still $1,100 : Read more

 

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It's the boot drive of your dreams

I like to keep my OS and data physically separate. What way, I can physically remove my data from the system when re-installing an OS to prevent data destruction by a confused installer.

 

[USAFRet]

I like to keep my OS and data physically separate. What way, I can physically remove my data from the system when re-installing an OS to prevent data destruction by a confused installer.

Same here.

6x SSD, each with their own main purpose.

 

[Colif]

I can remember in the late 90's thinking 500mb drives were so big, no way you could fill that with documents. Now... 8tb is still the same to me. I don't even use the 4tb I have now. I don't know what every one needs it all for. Decides its probably better I don't ask

 

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I don't even use the 4tb I have now. I don't know what every one needs it all for. Decides its probably better I don't ask

The most benign answer I can think of is hoarding - TBs can fill up quick if you are the type who rarely deletes anything. Hoarding is basically the only reason I have an external 4TB HDD.

 

[Colif]

i was scarred by having a bunch of hdd died long ago and I just don't bother filling drives up now if they might just die randomly. At least backups mean I just lose time now.

 

[drtweak]

I can remember in the late 90's thinking 500mb drives were so big, no way you could fill that with documents. Now... 8tb is still the same to me. I don't even use the 4tb I have now. I don't know what every one needs it all for. Decides its probably better I don't ask

Back in I think Xmas of 03 my dad got me a 40 Gig drive. Was running 2x4GB and 1x2Gb and didn't have them filled. When i opened this up I was all "How am i ever going to fill this thing up! Now here I am with a 50TB home server XD

 

[DaTruAndi]

It is MicroCenter’s store brand and it has been sold for 999 for a few weeks now (even the heat sink version) at least if you bother going directly to their website and not check only Amazon. Unfortunately this is an example of lazy journalism not doing basic research here.

https://www.microcenter.com/product...4-m2-2280-heatsink-internal-solid-state-drive

https://www.microcenter.com/product...d-tlc-nand-pcie-gen-4-x4-nvme-m2-internal-ssd

 

[PBme]

I can remember in the late 90's thinking 500mb drives were so big, no way you could fill that with documents. Now... 8tb is still the same to me. I don't even use the 4tb I have now. I don't know what every one needs it all for. Decides its probably better I don't ask

Hundreds of different use cases. Games can quickly fill space. But large of consumer storage is generally about video. Personal or commercial.
I just upgraded my 3 16tb drives to 4 18 for my movie server (UHD + BR + features can be 150GB per movie).