8TB EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE @ COSTCO FOR AROUND $100 - IF ANYONE NEEDS ONE

One can fit a lot of doom onto 8 tb.

10 years from now we will have 1000 tb ehd's for 10 bucks.

i pay 80-100 on a 1tb wd hard drive at wal mart.i buy one every 3-4 months

Was just at Costco last week, can confirm. it was 119 US dollars tho

Is there one cheaper than this? Amazon has one for 125 but free shipping.

you cant eat 8tb

MAN! You STAY gettin robbed.

If you can dodge a hard drive, you can dodge a dodgeball.

It's a Seagate, it's meant to last.

My first drive was/IS a Seagate.

It still works LIGHTNING fast.

Nearly 11 years old already and in almost constant use.

That one is a 2.0 USB, the new one is 3.0, even faster.

So that's that

Proceed.

Thats a lot of porn.

Just bought a Crucial SSD 1tb for $107. Super fast with no moving parts.

My computer is so much faster with SSD drives.

SSD are psyops by the government. The data is stored is sent directly to Gitmo.

non-SSD external HDs are a massive waste of money and time.

Seagate has ALWAYS been trash.

So you like to push your luck?

SSD?

Solid state drive. Best investment you will ever make upgrading.

that's why you should always do pairs or if the data is extremely important do triples

all my external HDDs are in pairs
and from different batches and or different brands

Bought a Commodore in the mid 1980's. I think it was all black and white, and hopelessly perplexing. Then we bought a 6G Compaq Presario in the mid-90's. We were assured there was no way we could possibly use that much hard drive, ever. It cost like 5K for the package and looking back, it was a joke.

But it was the beginning of the beginning...kinda like when the wheel was invented.

when I bought my first computer, a 20 meg Hard drive would have cost over 1000 $ ...so had a lot of 3.5 floppies, the computer had 1 meg memory ...

80 meg hard disk was considered to be big ...then devices that could write cds became available but the cost was 10 000 bucks

I started with a Sinclair zx81.

Costco Canada. - $139.99 For A 6TB EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE... Right Now.

Regular $165.00 At costco Canada!

Can I hook 4 up in a RAID?

Years ago my friend paid $600 for a 60mb internal hard drive and we couldn't fathom why he needed one so big.

Floppy disc days.

All in awe of such modern tech.

what the hell do you need 8 terabytes of data for?

THAT is why you have a "backup" stored OFF premises (ie: second one that is a clone of the first one.

I remember in the early days of PC's when doing backups were virtually mandatory since hard drives would fail regularly. Big business and the cloud still keep at least TWO sets of backups that they utilize on a rotating basis (so if the master and the first backup get corrupted due to a virus they can still go back to the other older backup).

When doing backups in days of old we would rotate in the new backup on a weekly basis, and do the actual backups daily onto that drive. The drive not being used that week was always stored off premises during the week it was not in use. The following week we would use the other drive. Doing it that way the most amount of data that we could lose was one week, even if our office location burned down.

It became such a habit for me that I still do regular backups of my office data files, about every other day, but these days I just use high capacity thumb drives since they are large enough to store our current data files. (no need to backup program files) I still follow the 2 backup devices routine and the one not in use is still stored off premises for the week it is not being used.

Also do the same for my home computers ... but tend to only back those up about once a month, but then store that backup device elsewhere (the office for me)

Why not just design a comp with no need for an external hard drive EVER?