Tuesday: Sandisk and WD sale (32 options)

The headliner of the Best Buy daily deals for Tuesday 3/17/20 is a sale on the Sandisk and WD storage with 32 options that include Extreme and Ultra SD and microSD cards, external HDD and SSD hard drives, along with internal drives, and various USB flash drives…

Monday: 400GB Sandisk microSDXC for $53, Galaxy Note 9 for $600

Two potentially interesting deals in the Amazon USA Gold Bawx for Monday 3/16/2020 until 11:59pm pacifica time (or earlier for any that gets sold out):

+ 400GB Sandisk Ultra microSDXC for $53

+ Samsung Galaxy Note 9 for $600 (128GB) or $750 (512GB)
+ factory unlocked, USA warranty, sold and shipped by Amazon herself

Mon: Sirui, Pelican Storm Trek, 256GB Sandisk Extreme PRO SDXC for $60 [512GB for $150]

Monday is here and just like that March Madness is upon us [because “Championship Week” (TM ESPN?) has more games than the actual NCAA tournament]. And with it we have a new set of B&H daily deals good until 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out):

+ 256GB Sandisk Extreme PRO SDXC UHS-I memory card (up to 170MB/sec, V30, U3, C10) for $60 after 40% off in-cart automatic coupon

+ 512GB Sandisk Extreme PRO SDXC UHS-I memory card (up to 170MB/sec, V30, U3, C10) for $150 after $50 off in-cart automatic coupon

+ optional combined purchase discount with a 2pk of 16GB Sandisk CompactFlash cards

+ Sirui P-326SR Photo/Video Monopod with VH-10X Head for $199 after $30 mail-in rebate

+ Pelican Storm Trak cases, four options, $200 to $269

+ Lumens VC-A51 20x DVI-I/3G-SDI HD PTZ Camera (Black) for $1290

UPDATE: at the Best Buy dailies they have a 2pk of 32GB PNY Attache USB 2.0 flash drives for $8 total [it is USB 2.0 after all], a sale on Logitech mice, while their headliner is the 24-inch DELL LED QHD G-sync monitor (HDMI, DisplayPort) for $250…

UPDATE #2: meanwhile at the Amazon Germany AngeBote [which is today’s word(s) of the day, GoldBox] has a sale on printers (Epson Expression Photo, HP Tango and Sprocket) along with Anker power-n-charging accessories (along with a 7-port USB-C hub for 25~ euro [4.6 out of 5 on 150+ customer reviews), and there’s also a Lenovo laptops, tablets and monitors sale…

Friday: 14TB WD Easystor USB 3.0 External HDD for $230

The headliner of the Friday 3/6/20 Best Buy dailies is of the storage kind [did you remember to do your backups? did you remember to test your recovery process?], it is the new condition 14TB WD EasyStor external USB 3.0 hard drive going for $230 with free US shipping or free store pickup. This comes out to $16.42 per terabyte [or if you are a giant planet-eating alien, there’s also the term “terrabite”]. It averages 4.7 out of 5 based on 51 customer reviews.

Me, personally, I save all my photos on my trusty 32MB SmartMedia memory card 🙂

Sunday: 3pk of 64GB Samsung EVO Select cards for $24 total after coupon

Samsung microSD card fans, unite and take over! If you need 64GB Samsung EVO Select in multiples of three, you are in luck! As one of the Sunday 2/23/20 deals of the day at Woot (ends 11:59pm central or earlier if sold out) you can get 3-packs of 64GB Samsung EVO Select microSDXC cards for $24 total after using coupon code SAVEFIVE ($5 off), coming down to $8 per card. Limit up to three 3-packs per customer. Free shipping for Prime members or $6 flat for the calendar day for non-members. Note that the listing says these come with a 90-day Woot warranty… The current price at Amazon is $12 per card… These days the Samsung microSD cards are my go-to, I never had any problems with them, in phones or tablet/laptops…

Elsewhere, at the B&H daily deals they have:

+ GenAray Escort Daylight LED Spot Light for $150

+ JBL speakers, auray headphone stand and ChargeWorx Qi wireless charging pad

It’s all utilitarian at the Adorama daily deal (changes 10am ET daily), it’s the H&A Universal Tablet Stand Adapter for $13

5TB Seagate BackUp Plus External USB 3.0 HDD for $110

Good until 1/30/20 (or earlier if sold out), if red is your favorite color scheme, you can get the new condition 5TB Seagate Backup Plus USB 3.0 external HDD for $110 with free US shipping at B&H Photo. You can buy as many as you like. The other colors are not on sale…

10TB G-Technology G-DRIVE G1 External USB 3.0 HDD for $230

The latest Adorama daily deal is of the storage kind, it is the new condition 10TB G-Technology G-DRIVE G1 USB 3.0 External Hard Drive offered for $230 with free US shipping. Maximum of two units per customer at the sale price. There is a countdown clock at the aforelinked deal page with the expiration…

256GB Samsung Fit Plus USB 3.1 small flash drive for $40

Sandisk is not the only one making short “thumb-size” USB flash drives. Samsung is making them too and for a limited time their 256GB FIT Plus (model MUF-256AB/AM) is on sale for $40 at B&H Photo and Amazon itself. Samsung says this is a *proof device (water, shock, magnet, temperature, x-ray) and comes with a 5-year warranty.

Great use for laptops so they don’t stick out or hooked to a smartphone/tablet using a short OTG cable [assuming your device is compatible] or used on the front USB ports of desktop computers or used as storage in smart TVs or digital TV PVR boxes [I did this with one of those cheap $30 OTA “DVRs”) or to play music in cars, and so on…

Zeiss Batis 85mm f1.8 (Sony E) for $719

Zeiss, Zeiss, Baby! That’s what the world famous rapper “Vanilla Zeiss” sang and for a limited time, the Adorama Daily Deals are singing that song too, the new condition Zeiss Batis 85mm f1.8 for the Sony E-system is on sale for $719 with free US shipping. There is a countdown clock at the aforelinked daily deals page showing how much time is left on the deal. No coupon/rebate needed ~ just add to cart and proceed to Zeiss Checkout while Zeiss offer is running 🙂

Sunday: Memory Card Sale: Sandisk and Lexar (SD and microSD, 32GB to 400GB)

Memory cards abound in the Sunday Amazon USA Gold Box as part of yet another variation of the Computer Accessories sale, this time around the theme being items priced individually under $100. The memory cards:

SD, SDHC, SDXC, SD-whatever
+ yellow Sandisk Extreme SDXC (up to 250MB/sec, UHS-II, V60, C10, U3) for $28 (128GB) or $15 (64GB)
+ the 128GB “Wins” the bang for the buck obviously

+ gray-black Sandisk Ultra SDXC (up to 100MB/s, UHS-I, C10, U1) for $33.49 (256GB) or $17~ (128GB)

+ Lexar Professional 1667X gray-black SDXC cards (up to 150MB/sec, UHS-I, V30, C10, U3) for $19 (128GB)

+ Lexar Professional 667X yellow-black SDXC cards (up to 100MB/sec, UHS-I, V30, C10, U3) for $19 (128GB)

+ Lexar Professional 633X yellow-black SDXC cards (up to 95MB/sec, UHS-I, V30, C10, U3) for $14 (128GB), 32GB for $5

microSD, microSDHC, microSDXC, microSD-whatever
+ 256GB gold-red Sandisk Extreme (V30, A2, U3, UHS-I) for $40

+ Sandisk Ultra (A1, C10, UHS-I, U1) for $47 (400GB) or $30 (256GB) or $25 (200GB) or $15.49 (128GB) or $9 (64GB)
+ bang for the buck is very close between the three largest capacities (calculator is needed to figure out the winner)

Other Things
+ various USB flash drives
+ gaming accessories
+ metal network switch
+ and… cat ears of sorts ???

Find them all at the PC accessories under $100 at the Amazon USA Gold Box, good until 11:59pm pacific on Sunday 12/8/19 (or earlier for any item that may sell out)…

Limit three of each item per customer. Not sure what happens to the limit if there are multiple options under the same root listing, eg different storage options of the same memory card…

64GB Sandisk Extreme PRO SDXC UHS-II for $85

The latest Adorama daily deal is the new condition 64GB Sandisk Extreme PRO SDXC UHS-II memory card (up to 300MB/sec, U3, C10) going for $85 with free US shipping while this promotion is running. There is a countdown clock on the page. Unlike most daily deals, the Adorama daily deals are transcend calendar days ~ if my head-math is correct, they start at 10am eastern every day…

128GB Sandisk Extreme microSDXC for $20

If you have phones, tablets, laptops, cameras, action cameras and other gear that use microSD cards (or don’t object to using them in full-size SD slots with the included adapted), the 128GB Sandisk Extreme microSDXC (C10, UHS-I, V30, U3, A2, etc) is on sale for $20 at various dealers including Adorama and Amazon and B&H Photo and Best Buy. With so many retailers offering it, even if they have individual per-customer limits, you can scoop them up from multiple retailers…

EU: 128GB Lexar Professional (633x) SDXC for 18 euro [limit 2]

And now we fly over to the other side of the pond, where Amazon Germany is offering as part of the Cyber Monday festivities the new condition 128GB Lexar Professional (633x) SDXC memory card (UHS-I, V30, U3, C10, up to 95MB/sec) for 18 euro with up to two units per customer. Free shipping in Germany-Austria with Prime or 29+ euro orders… According to Google Translate, this is in retail packaging (if they translated “Einzelhandelsverpackung” correctly)…

Lexar SD sale (633x to 1667X, UHS-I, UHS-II, 64GB to 1TB)

More B&H Black Friday action, this time it is a Lexar SD card sale featuring cards from 633X to 1667X, a total of 15 options, a mix of UHS-I and UHS-II with prices ranging from $9 to $200 for single packs. Storage options range from 64GB to 1TB in single packs.

BF Storage Deals: HDDs, 64GB Lexar SDXC or PNY microSDXC for $10 each [and many more]

Storage is one of the themes of the day in the Amazon Black Friday deals and the designated sale has so much there are actually two pages of deals. Here is Page #1 and here is Page #2

Of the memory cards, they have:

+ 64GB Lexar Professional 633x SDXC (C10, V30, U3, UHS-I) for $9
+ 64GB Lexar Professional 2000x SDXC (C10, U3, UHS-II) for $90

+ 512GB PNY Elite Performance SDXC for $70
+ 512GB PNY PRO Elite microSDXC for $70
+ also 64GB PNY microSDXC for $10 and 128GB Elite-X for $27

There’s even more action with external and internal hard drives with Seagate, Toshiba, and Synology options and some USB flash drives thrown in for good measure. Too many to list here individually…

Limit two of each storage item while this promotion is running…

Last but not least, not storage but now that Amazon and Apple are in love again, Amazon itself is selling the new condition Apple MacBook Air for $650 (13-inch, 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD Storage, up to three per customer)

2TB Seagate Expansion external USB 3.0 HDD for $50

The B&H Black Friday deals are upon us, and we begin the “digest” of these and other retailers “new wave” of offers. First up, let’s take a look at external hard drives at B&H Photo:

+ 2TB Seagate Expansion Portable USB 3.0 External Hard Drive for $50 (you can buy as many as you like)
+ that’s $25/TB

+ 6TB Seagate Expansion for $90
+ it’s out of stock but you can lock up the price by ordering
+ that’s $15/TB

EU: 128GB Sandisk Extreme PRO SDXC for 20 euro [limit 2]

To alleviate the pain of dealing with a sprawling bureaucracy in Brussels, Amazon Germany is offering a very nice sale on the 128GB Sandisk Extreme PRO SDXC memory cards (UHS-I, U3, V30, C10, up to 170MB/sec) going for 20 euro each with a limit of two per customer. This is one of their never-ending Gold Box daily deals or as they say it in Cherman, “Ange Bote”

Thursday: 512GB Sandisk Extreme PRO SDXC for $128 [also microSD, HDDs, Flash, Etc]

Things are starting to get busy at the Amazon USA Gold Box with a number of daily deals for Thursday 11/28/19, aka Happy Thanksgiving Day aka Black Friday Eve… Of camera and photo interest:

+ Sandisk and WD sale includes:

+ 512GB Sandisk Ultra microSDXC for $64, Extreme for $80
+ 1TB Sandisk Extreme microSDXC for $200

+ 512GB Sandisk Extreme PRO SDXC (C10, V30, U3, UHS-I) for $128
+ 1TB of that for $300

+ various internal and external HDD hard drives, along with home cloud drives

+ various Sandisk USB flash drives and SSDs

APART from the above, there’s a separate PC and Accessories sale with computers, monitors and such, including a $169 ASUS Windows Celery laptop…

+ limit three of each item per customer

Thur: 400GB Sandisk Ultra microSDXC for $50, Etc

Storage is the name of the game at the NewEgg Shellshockers (aka daily deals) for Thursday 11/28/19 including:

+ 400GB Sandisk Ultra microSDXC (A1, C10, U1, UHS-I) for $50 (limit 2)
+ UPDATE: this has been price-matched by Amazon (limit 4)

+ storage and RAM options from Seagate, WD, XPG, Patriot, Orico

IF you want to be like Oprah this holiday season but with cards instead of cars [what a huge difference just one letter makes], Woot is offering a 20pk of 16GB PNY microSD Class 4 memory cards for $50. That’s $2.50 per card. This however is an app-exclusive offer, so you must needs purchase it using one of the official Woot apps (iOS, Google Play and … Amazon Play Appstore). Limit up to ten 20-packs per customer so you can literally hands them out like candy on the street corner while wearing a lovely Santa outfit? 🙂

AND if you feel like deal-fishing, Woot has Bargain Bin clearance sale with “bins” ranging from $5 to $50+ per item…

2pk 8TB Seagate Ironwolf NAS 3.5″ Internal HDDs for $370

The holiday season Adorama daily deals transcend calendar days but they have a convenient big bold countdown clock on them so you know how much time there is left on them. As of the time of writing, they are offering a 2-pack of 8TB Seagate IronWolf NAS 3.5″ Internal Hard Drive for $370 with free US shipping. No coupon, no rebate, just add to cart and proceed to checkout…

Sunday: 32GB Sandisk microSD for $5.50, Dracast, DofTec, Westcott, Etc

Sunday brings more new B&H daily deals running until 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out):

+ 16GB Sandisk microSD with full size adapter for $4, or 32GB for $5.49 (Ultra, Class 10)

+ DraCast S-Series LED500 Plus Bi-Color LED 2-Light Kit with NP-F Battery Plates for $279

+ DofTec Z-96K Professional Photo & Video LED Light Kit for $75

+ JarvMobile 20W Dual Wireless Charging Pad for Qi-Enabled Devices for $15

+ ThuLe Vectros Bumper Case for Apple 15.4″ MacBook Pro for $20

+ WestCott 2-in-1 Boom Arm Kit with Boom Arm/Pole, Clamp, and Grip Head for $130

UPDATE: meanwhile at the Woot website, “Electronics” offers 20pks of Energizer Advanced single-use lithium AA batteries for $23, and “Computers” offers a sale Centon storage products (SSD, microSD) ranging from $17 to $185…

And at Best Buy, they have another iteration of the Adobe Photoshop Elements sale, now with the 2020 version, with individual titles going for $60 each, while the Elements (Photoshop & Premiere) go for $90…

And of wedding interest, one of the Kindle e-book deals of the day is the “Modern Wedding: Creating a Celebration That Looks and Feels Like You” by Kelsey McKinnon going for $2 (385 pages, one customer review)…

512GB Sandisk Ultra microSDXC for $80

The lower capacities (from the highest available) often offer a better bang for the buck in memory cards, but if you must have a 512GB microSDXC memory card, Amazon itself is offering the new condition 512GB Sandisk Ultra (C10, A1, U1, UHS-I) for $80 with up to four per customer at the sale price from Amazon itself… But if you want better stats, the 512GB Extreme (V30, A2, U3, UHS-I) goes for $110…

These came up while price-checking the Friday Best Buy dailies which has the 512GB Sandisk Ultra Plus going for $120…

Tuesday: 128GB PNY Elite Performance SDXC for $18

If you are a fan of PNY memory cards, good for 10/29/19, among the Best Buy daily deals you can find the new condition 128GB PNY Elite Performance SDXC UHS-I memory card going for $18 with up to ten per customer at the sale price…

PS: for pourover coffee fans, also part of the daily deals is a Kitchen Aid gooseneck electric kettle with a built-in thermometer (no temperature control though) for $50. You can adjust the flow rate however.

Tuesday: MicroSD sales: 256GB Sandisk for $45, 128GB G-Skill for $13

microSD cards is the theme of the day in the Tuesday 10/22/19 daily deals, starting with the Best Buy dailies offering the new condition 256GB Sandisk Ultra microSDXC going for $45 with free US shipping and/or store pickup where possible…

Meanwhile on the storage front, one of the Tuesday NewEgg daily deals [now organized in a single simple page for easy skim-n-scan] is the new condition 128GB G-Skill microSDXC card, Class 10, UHS-I, U1, model FF-TSDXC128GA-U1A, going for $13 with up to three per customer, sold and shipped by NewEgg itself… While there you will also find daily deals on the Intel i9-9900K, i7 Surface Laptop, 512GB internal SSD, 17.3″ $550 HP laptop, and more…

Monday: 200GB Sandisk Ultra microSDXC for $28 w/FS AC

Among the Monday NewEgg daily deals you can get the new condition 200GB Sandisk Ultra microSDXC for $28 with free US shipping using promo code 93XPC72 over there. Limit up to three per customer. This is sold and shipped by NewEgg itself…

Speaking of dailies, the Woot Electronics deal of the day are the refurbished Pixel 2 smartphones, fully unlocked, in scratch and dent condition going for $170 for the Pixel 2 and $200 for the larger Pixel 2 XL. They come with a 90-day Woot warranty…

Friday: 64GB Sandisk Ultra Plus SDXC or microSDXC for $15 each

Also part of the Best Buy daily deals for Friday October 18 in 2019 is the return of another Sandisk Ultra Plus memory card sale. This time around the 64GB SDXC and microSDXC memory cards are on sale for $15 each with free store pickup. Free shipping when you reach a minimum ordering amount and/on depending on your Best Buy rewards tier.

Also part of the Friday sale is a sale on Surface devices, namely two Surface PRO 6 tablets and one Surface Laptop 2 with prices starting at $699.

Speaking of Surfaces, the main Woot daily deal for Friday is a sale on three Surface 4 PRO tablet bundles (with keyboard and pen) ranging from $570 to $1390… And for the non-Surface crowd, the “Computers” tab has a sale on various laptops and computer monitors…

Sunday: 1TB Sandisk Extreme Plus microSDXC for $350

One of the Sunday Best Buy daily deals is the new condition 1TB (yes, terabyte [unless you bury the card in the ground, then it becomes a terrabyte] Sandisk Extreme Plus microSDXC memory card going for $350 with free US shipping and/or store pickup where available/possible. This is V30, A2, U3, UHS-I, model Model:SDSQXBZ-1T00-ANCMASKU. Maximum of fifteen cards per customer at the sale price during this promotion…

Wednesday: 256GB Patriot microSDXC for $30 w/FS

“Memory Card Week” continues with another daily deal offering, this time it is at NewEgg, it is the new condition 256GB Patriot microSDXC (A1, V30, U3, UHS-I, Class 10, EP, up to 100GB/s read, up to 80MB/s write) going for $30 with free US shipping. Up to three per customer at the sale price. This is sold and shipped by NewEgg itself. Sale ends at 11:59pm pacific on 9/18/19 or earlier if sold out…

10TB Seagate 3.5″ Expansion Desktop External HDD for $190

For a limited time, another “snapshot deal”, Adorama is offering the new condition 10TB Seagate 3.5″ Expansion Desktop External Hard Drive for $190 with free expediting US shipping along with 1% promotional rewards.

Tuesday: Ride the P(o)NY at Amazon with SD, microSD, Flash

Yet another variant of the “Storage sale” is happening at the Amazon USA Gold Box, this one is a Ride the P(o)NY sale, or as normal people like to say, a sale on PNY storage products which includes:

+ 128GB Elite Performance SDxC (up to 95MB/sec, 29hr HD video, UHS-I, U3, etc) for $16
+ 256GB of that for $33
+ 512GB of that for $78
+ the 128GB “wins” the bang for the buck

+ 2-pack of 16GB PNY SDHC Class 4 for $7.49
+ I suppose if you have older cameras that can’t handle higher capacities and fast cards?

+ 128GB Elite microSDXC (black/green, V30, A1, UHS-I, U3, up to 100MB/s) for $16
+ 256GB for $33
+ again, 128GB “wins”

+ 250GB PNY PRO Elite USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type C SSD external/portable for $52
+ internal 250GB for $40

+ all sorts of USB flash drives, including 5-packs which can be handy if you prefer to hand off pictures to friends and clients and collaborators on flash storage instead of clouds and drop-boxes and OneDrives and TwoDrives and GoogleDrives 😉
+ 17 options total, including those tiny flash drives that you can leave in laptops and media players and such

Limit three of each item per customer. Sale ends at 11:59pm pacific on Tuesday 9/17/19 or earlier for any item that may sell out and before un-orderable at the sale price.

UPDATE: Best Buy is “counter-programming” this with Sandisk, they are offering the 512GB Ultra PLUS microSDXC (V10, A10, Class 10, UHS-I, I suppose I could add a few random letters and numbers here and no one would notice) for $125.