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When it's cheaper to get 1TB of storage and 8GB of RAM in a phone (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Going from 256GB -> 1TB is $400. That's insanity. A 1TB NVME drive is less than $100 these days.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

But does that include apple magic pixie dust? Didn't think so.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You can even get 2TB NVME SSDs for under $100, Apple's pricing is ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I got a 2TB USB drive for just $5. You need to know where to shop!

Actually...

it was a clearance at a local Vietnamese shop, and it said “2TB (64GB extension)” so I knew what to expect. I scooped it up to prevent a less tech-savvy person from using it and losing 1936 GB of their data. I found that the FirstChip flash controller can be reprogrammed using the software MPtools, which I used to find bad blocks and limit the drive to a virtual 30GiB capacity, which means the drive should be as good as the upper 50 % of blocks. A one-pass R/W test then finished 100% correct but I still only use it for non-critical files like movies.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

100? I bought mine at 35!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

35? I bought mine when i was 25 years old!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

25? bro, I was born with it in my hands.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

When you were born ? I had it when i was a fetus