The SanDisk Extreme Esternal SSD's are around $60 for the 1TB versions and $40 for the 500GB versions. I think these are the first gen versions.
Not every store has them at that price; three stores in my area had them for $60 while the rest had them at around $110-150. I found them at that price on Monday while looking in the electronics section for a TV. They are usually located next to the Hard Drives.
https://brickseek.com/walmart-inv...=904399577
https://www.walmart.com/ip/SanDis.../904399577
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When I went, there was only one still marked at $177 but rang up at $67.26.
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https://techreport.com/review/340...-reviewed/
After some head-scratching I managed to prise off the top and peer into the innards, only to be greeted by a PCB completely swathed in black tape. Some cautious poking and scratching led me to two realizations. First, that tape disguises a copper film layer, presumably for heat-dissipation purposes. Second, that there was no way I'd be able to cleanly remove all the layers of wrapping for worthwhile internal photos. You'll have to do without those this time around. But since SanDisk has kept mum about the Extreme Portable's composite parts, I peeled away just enough of a corner to discern what the important bits are.
The controller is Marvell's 88SS1074, which we've seen before in Crucial's MX300. The NAND is the SanDisk-Toshiba partnership's now-ubiquitous 64-layer BiCS TLC flash, which recently dazzled us in the WD Black NVMe. That combination means that the Extreme Portable is essentially a WD Blue M.2 strapped to a USB bridge controller and and packaged up nicely.
one of my coworkers is there now so I'll have him confirm if he can find any.
edit: coworker says the location "doesn't have any"... kinda surprised brickseek is wrong...
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