[US-Amazon] PNY 128GB USB 3.0 for $25.00

[Moondrelor]

Enjoy. Small sizes are also around 40% off.

 

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00YPNTQEY/ref=s9_simh_gw_g147_i1_r?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=desktop-1&pf_rd_r=0Y8QXGNH8TH2VTCE4T98&pf_rd_t=36701&pf_rd_p=2079475242&pf_rd_i=desktop

[Oshino Shinobu]

Great deal for a film/music drive to plug into a router or TV that supports file sharing. 

[Oberon.Smite]

Great deal for a film/music drive to plug into a router or TV that supports file sharing. 

Holy shit how do I do that?

[Enderman]

no point in buying a huge USB if the transfer speeds are crap...

just buy an external SSD or something

[Oshino Shinobu]

Holy shit how do I do that?

Most routers have a USB port that you can plug a drive into. Some routers support creating a network drive that you can access (similar to a Shared local folder on Windows) or you can just type in the Router's IP address in a network page in Windows Explorer. So most likely "\\192.168.1.1"

 

http://www.groovypost.com/howto/share-usb-drive-wi-fi-router/

 

Some TVs also support storage and playback from USB devices. 

[Oberon.Smite]

Most routers have a USB port that you can plug a drive into. Some routers support creating a network drive that you can access (similar to a Shared local folder on Windows) or you can just type in the Router's IP address in a network page in Windows Explorer. So most likely "\\192.168.1.1"

 

http://www.groovypost.com/howto/share-usb-drive-wi-fi-router/

 

Some TVs also support storage and playback from USB devices. 

OH OK makes sense. I setup the router for my home network and always wondered what the USB 3.0 port on the back was for. Thanks

[Oshino Shinobu]

OH OK makes sense. I setup the router for my home network and always wondered what the USB 3.0 port on the back was for. Thanks

I think it can also be used to store firmware revisions, usage/error logs and similar things. 

[Cactu]

what are the acutal write/read speeds?

[Cactu]

what are the acutal write/read speeds?

 

estimated 90MB/s write. 200MB/s read a hell of a good deal

[Moondrelor]

no point in buying a huge USB if the transfer speeds are crap...

just buy an external SSD or something

 

It's USB 3.0... How is that crap?

[Enderman]

It's USB 3.0... How is that crap?

because its the speed of the nand and flash controller that are the bottleneck...not USB3

thats why the corsair usb drives that use a SATA controller are so much faster, making the large 128 and 256 capacities actually useful

[Moondrelor]

because its the speed of the nand and flash controller that are the bottleneck...not USB3

thats why the corsair usb drives that use a SATA controller are so much faster, making the large 128 and 256 capacities actually useful

 

I understand that.

The USB get's 130mb/s+

 

Are you just calling it crap or is that just shit in your opinion? 130mb/s is better than most peoples HDD's...

[Enderman]

I understand that.

The USB get's 130mb/s+

 

Are you just calling it crap or is that just shit in your opinion? 130mb/s is better than most peoples HDD's...

i dont see where you're getting 130MB/s from...

[Oshino Shinobu]

i dont see where you're getting 130MB/s from...

-snip-

http://www.canbike.org/information-technology/benchmark-pny-128gb-turbo-usb-3-0-p-fd128tbop-ge.html

 

http://geardiary.com/2014/05/13/pny-turbo-128-gb-usb-3-0-flash-drive-review/

[Legion]

http://www.canbike.org/information-technology/benchmark-pny-128gb-turbo-usb-3-0-p-fd128tbop-ge.html

 

http://geardiary.com/2014/05/13/pny-turbo-128-gb-usb-3-0-flash-drive-review/

 

Thanks, I was with enderman as I've owned some shitty usb drives in my time but this is pretty cool

[Oshino Shinobu]

Thanks, I was with enderman as I've owned some shitty usb drives in my time but this is pretty cool

I'm not really fussed about high speed USB drives. I just use them for storing documents rather than large files. But yeah, this seems like a very good deal for a drive to transfer or carry videos around on. (or a Windows install drive. I could actually do with one of those)

[GzeroD]

i dont see where you're getting 130MB/s from...

 

you could try looking up something on the actual drive people are looking at.

http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php/743064-Decent-Price-and-Speed-PNY-128GB-Turbo-USB-3-0

 

and there are plenty of cases where a large 128 or 256 gb flash drive is a better plan than buying an external ssd at several times the price. backups for example don't need to be blazing fast.

[GodSpoon]

you could try looking up something on the actual drive people are looking at.

 

http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php/743064-Decent-Price-and-Speed-PNY-128GB-Turbo-USB-3-0

and there are plenty of cases where a large 128 or 256 gb flash drive is a better plan than buying an external ssd at several times the price. backups for example don't need to be blazing fast.

 

 

Just ordered one, ill add my own speeds when I get it for anyone wondering  

[Counter-Strike Player]

This was $20 not long ago. Personally, I wouldn't count on binned usb flash memory if "crucial backups" was the plan. If I wanted the storage, I would have gone with a Toshiba HDD for 2.5 cents per GB. Dem 2-year warranties and 128MB of cache doe. #7200

[bcredeur97]

I have this drive. I get around 80MB/s on the reads and writes on average. Not blazing fast, but still as fast as an older hard drive which is good enough for a flash drive for me being I came from a USB 2.0 flash drive which only got 15 MB/s or so....

 

It's really perfect for basic tasks. And it's cheap. Amazes me how much storage you can get for so little these days.