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Monday: Aputure, GenAray, Dell, 3TB WD for $60, more WD internal/external HDD

Just like clockwork, Monday is here and with it it brings us a six-pack of B&H Photo dailies running until Monday at 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out):

+ Aputure VS-2 FineHD 7″ Field Monitor for $129

+ GEnAray Ultra-Thin Bicolor 288 SMD LED On-Camera Light Basic Kit for $80

+ DELL 15.6″ Inspiron 15 5000 Series 5570 Laptop for $599
+ 1.8 GHz i7-8550U Quad-Core, 8GB DDR4, 16GB Intel Optane, 1TB HDD, 15.6″ 1920 x 1080, Intel UHD Graphics 620, etc

+ 3TB WD Elements USB 3.0 External Desktop Hard Drive for $60

+ 1TB WD My Passport Ultra USB 3.0 External Hard Drive for $45

+ 2TB WD My Passport USB 3.0 Secure Portable Hard Drive for $60

+ 8TB WD Ultrastar 7200 rpm SATA 3.5″ Internal Data Center HDD (Retail) for $210
+ 14TB version for $400

+ find them all at the B&H Photo dailies…

August 4, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals Tagged With: ,

10TB WD My Book External HDD for $160 AC [limit 2]

Prime Day may be over at the Amazon Mothership but NewEgg won’t let it go, they have a new “top sellers” edition of their e-newsletter sale with the headliner being a 10TB WD My-Book external HDD going for $160 after you enter the promo code EMCTCUB37 over there. You must be logged on to Newegg or give them your email address in order to be able to use these newsletter promo codes… Limit two per customer at the sale price… Because all those pictures and video need more and more TB…

July 17, 2019 Filed Under: memory cards and storage Tagged With: , ,

Prime Day 2019 Storage Sales: WD, Sandisk, Seagate, Samsung

Sandisk and their new WD overlords are having their own sale box in the Amazon Prime Day 2019 deals. Among the many items in the Sandisk and WD Storage sale:

+ 128GB Extreme SDXC for $24, 256GB for $48, 64GB for $13.59

+ microSD Ultra: 128GB for $20, 256GB for $30, 400GB for $45, 512GB for $100

+ microSD Extreme: 1TB for $341, 512GB for $136, 256GB for $43

+ various internal and external WD hard drives and some G-Technology “Armor” as well
+ Sandisk SSDs

+ flash drives including the 128GB Ultra Fit USB 3.1 Type A for $15, the 256GB for $30

+ also part of the sale is the new-ish Sandisk iBi Photo Manager thing going for $120

BUT that’s not all. There is a second block with Storage Sales that features various other brands but with similar products as mentioned above. They include:

+ 32GB Samsung microSD EVO Select for $5.50
+ 64GB PNY SDXC Elite Performance for $12
+ 512GB Lexar 633x microSDXC for $52
+ LaCie rugged external hard drives
+ Seagate external and internal hard drives
+ Synology 2-bay NAS for $119, 4-bay for $467
+ flash drives, and more

July 15, 2019 Filed Under: memory cards and storage Tagged With: , , , , ,

Monday: Storage (microSD, HDD) and Laptops and Etc sale

Name-brand technology makes a comeback at the Monday 6/24/19 Amazon Gold Box deals du jour. This set is good until 11:59pm Pacific time [or earlier for anything that sells out earlier on]. You can buy up to two of each individual item per shopping cart.

We start with storage, of the microSD kind:

+ 200GB Sandisk ULTRA microSDXC (C10. A1, UHS-I) for $24

+ Sandisk Extreme microSD bundled with Sandisk USB 3.0 microSD card reader: 64GB for $23, 128GB for $30, 256GB for $54

Then we have one flash drive, the 256GB “Dual Drive” (one side USB regular size, the other microUSB) going for just under $33.

On the hard drive side of things, there’s a 3TB WD for $83, and a 6TB Seagate desktop style with two USB ports for $100.

And then there are laptops, five Windows laptops from Dell and Alienware ($335 to $1515) and one ASUS Chromebook (Flip C101PA-DS04, 10.1″, Rockchip, 4GB RAM, 32GB on-board, one USB-A and two USB-C ports , microSD slot, Google Play, 360-degree touchscreen, 1280×800, 2 lbs, etc) for $279.

But that’s not all – there’s networking gear, gaming accessories, and the Wacom One graphics tablet for $50…

June 24, 2019 Filed Under: memory cards and storage, technology deals Tagged With: , ,

16TB WD MyBook Duo External RAID HDD USB-C for $500

The Thursday Best Buy daily deals including the new condition 16TB WD MyBook Duo External RAID HDD USB-C offered for $500 with free shipping or free store pickup where possible…

But that’s not all, this has also been price-matched by Amazon itself, with up to three per customer at the sale price…

April 25, 2019 Filed Under: memory cards and storage Tagged With: ,

Sunday: World Storage Day sale featuring WD, Sandisk, Samsung, Synology, Kingston, etc

March 31 is World Storage Day and to sale-a-brate this day, the Amazon USA Gold Box has a big storage-themed sale featuring memory cards, hard drives, NAS, SSD, and flash drives too!

A total of 27 items are participating including:

+ 128GB Sandisk Extreme PRO for $32, 256GB for $56, 512GB for $160

+ 128GB Samsung Endurance PRO microSDXC for $30
+ 256GB Sandisk Extreme microSDXC for $53

+ 2TB Samsung T5 portable SSD for $330

+ 2TB WD external hard drive for $63, 6TB for $100
+ 1TB Toshiba for $40, 2TB for $52,

+ internal hard drives from Seagate and ToshiBa

+ flash drives from Kingston

+ LaCie backup for DJI

+ NAS options from Synology and QNAP

You can find all the options at the Amazon USA Gold Box… Limit of up to two per item during this sale…

March 31, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals, memory cards and storage, samsung Tagged With: , , , , ,

Wedn: Big Sandisk Cards and WD HDDs sale

A big storage sale is the headliner of the Wednesday FEB-27-2019 Amazon USA Gold Box deals du jour with many offerings ranging from $5 to $325, including:

+ 64GB Extreme yellow SDXC (V30, U3) for $14~
+ 128GB Extreme PRO black/red SDXC for $32
+ 16GB Ultra SD for $5~ [that’s the lowest priced item in this sale]

+ 200GB Ultra microSDXC for $29~
+ 400GB of that for $62~

+ there’s also bundles of Ultra microSDXC with USB flash drives

+ a variety of USB flash drives including the really small ones (Ultra Fits) at nice prices, such as the 128GB USB 3.1 for $18~ or the 64GB of that for $10~ for the 256GB of that for $34~
+ various other USB flash drives and combos on sale as well

+ there’s also a 1TB G-Tech G-Drive durable external SSD USB flash drive for $168

+ Sandisk SSDs as well

On the WD front, there’s a 10TB Elements desktop HDD for $160, 6TB for $100, 3TB for $70, a 2TB Gaming HDD for $64, and more

A total of 29 individual products are on sale. Limit up to two units per individual item per shopping cart. For items that have two versions with standard or frustration-free packaging, I don’t know if the limit is two total or two per packaging. The Amazon shopping cart is not shy about letting you know when you put them in there and try to checkout 🙂

Sale ends on Thursday at 3am eastern or earlier for any that may sell out ahead of time… Happy memory non-noming 🙂

February 27, 2019 Filed Under: memory cards and storage Tagged With: , , , , ,

Wedn: Toshiba HDDs, 64GB Samsung microSDXC for $10, Etc

The Wednesday Amazon Gold Box daily deals are headlined by a Storage and Networking sale that includes:

+ 64GB Samsung EVO Select microSDXC for $10 (the green one; as many as you want)

+ 64GB Kingston Canvas React microSDXC for $12
+ 128GB for $25

+ various Toshiba internal and external hard drives including 1TB Canvio Advance for $40, 2TB for $56; also 5TB desktop/gaming 7200rpm HDD for $100, 8TB for $159 and more

+ also Seagate internal hard drives and QNAP multi-bay performance NAS ($1799 to $2199)

On the networking front, they have options from NetGear, TrendNET, TP-Link, ARRIS, and ASUS

Also on sale are LAUNCH auto diagnostic tools and a Dyson Animal…

February 20, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals, samsung Tagged With: , ,

1TB G-Tech USB 3.0 External HDD for $30

For a limited time, Woot is running a Random PC sale that includes the new condition 1TB G-Tech USB 3.0 External HDD going for $30 with up to ten units per customer. It comes with a 90-day Woot warranty… Also part of the sale ASUS GeForce and MSI Radeon cards, a $40 Corsair headset, Intel Z170A, a $100 3rd-gen iPad, and a $120 8″ Galaxy Tab A…

February 4, 2019 Filed Under: memory cards and storage Tagged With: ,

Refurbished 1TB WD Elements w/warranty for $35 w/FS

Let us not forget the eBay Deals du jour, where if 1TB is your preferred external hard drive storage size, the official Western Digital (WD) eBay store is offering manufacturer refurbished 1TB WD Elements portable HDDs for $35 with free shipping, a 6-month warranty and 39 day returns. Up to three units per customer during this sale, which also has an automatic built-in small volume discount: if you buy two, you pay $33.24 per unit or if you buy three, you pay $31.49 per unit.

October 29, 2018 Filed Under: memory cards and storage Tagged With: , ,

Wedn: Sandisk Storage Sale Returns (19 options)

It’s the return of the Sandisk sales at the Amazon Gold Box. A total of 19 storage products are participating in today’s Sandisk Storage sale running until Wednesday at 11:59pm pacific [or earlier if sold out]…

Among the sale items:
+ 64GB Ultra C10 SDXC for $13~, 128GB for $23.50

+ 64GB Extreme microSDXC for $30, 128GB with $43, 256GB for $110
+ these come with a full size SD adapter AND a microSD card reader [connects to full size USB port]

+ 64GB microSDXC for Nintendo Switch for $20

+ various USB flash drives including a 128GB dual drive (USB, microUSB)

+ SSDs and HDDs from Sandisk and WD
+ WD is there because WD purchased Sandisk

There is a limit of two units per individual item per customer at the sale price…

October 24, 2018 Filed Under: memory cards and storage Tagged With: , , ,

Wedn Daily Deals: Sandisk Memory cards and WD and G-Tech HDDs

Wednesday September 26 is a busy day at the Amazon Gold Box, including a return of yet another variation of the Sandisk and Storage Sale including a trio of Extreme PRO SDXC cards (128GB for $39~, 256GB for $89, 512GB for $200), along with Sandisk microSD cards (200GB, 256GB, 400GB), Western Digital and G-Tech external hard drives, Sandisk SSDs, and the obligatory USB flash drives. A total of 25 options are available during this sale. The limit is up to two of the same item per customer.

If you are fond of Logitech and in need of keyboard, mice or rats, it is also a return of a variation of the Logitech sale including the MX Master mouse and the K840 mechanical keyboard. The limit is up to three of the same item per customer.

But that’s not all. In a rather busy Amazon Gold Box for this day, they are offering a cordless student microscope (limited use for professional microscope photography but better than nothing), a kids microscope set, an under-the-desk exercise bike, the sweet taste of Gevalia coffee [beans, ground, K-cups,Tassimo, etc], a Dyson Ball Animal vacuum [unless you specially in dust bunnies photography], and various discounts on Amazon’s own products [which are multiplying almost exponentially these days].

The sale ends at 3am ET on Thursday or earlier if any sell out.

September 26, 2018 Filed Under: memory cards and storage Tagged With: , , ,

Wedn Storage Daily Deal: 32GB microSD, 4TB and 8TB HDD

It’s another return of a variation on a theme of the computer hardware sale at the Amazon Gold Box, this time around the potentially interesting options include:

+ 32GB Kingston microSD with SD adapter for $7.49

+ 4TB Elements Desktop Hard Drive – USB 3.0 for $80

+ 8TB Seagate STGY8000400 Desktop External Hard Drive USB 3.0 for $140

+ various networking and other hardware items

+ limit five of each per customer

+ sale ends Thursday 3am ET (or earlier if anything sells out ahead of timeP

September 5, 2018 Filed Under: memory cards and storage Tagged With:

128GB Gnarbox for $255 [limit 3]

If you are interested in the GNARBOX camera storage/backup devices, the 128GB option of the GNARBOX is on sale for $255 with free shipping sold and shipped by Amazon itself with up to three per customer at the same price. Check reviews, product descriptions, specs, etc if you are not familiar with it (as usual)… It promises up to 4GB/minute in backup speed from USB 3 or SD/microSD cards. The speed of the cards and the type of files getting backed up are also a factor.

June 17, 2018 Filed Under: memory cards and storage Tagged With: ,

4TB WD External Elements Desktop HDD for $80

If 4TB is preferred external hard drive size, you are in luck! Amazon itself is offering the new condition 4TB WD Elements Desktop Hard Drive (USB 3.0, model WDBWLG0040HBK-NESN) for $80 with free shipping. You can buy as many as you like. This is not a lightning deal, so expiration time unknown.

UPDATE #1a: also there, the 2TB WD My Passport X for Xbox One Portable External Hard Drive (USB 3.0, WDBCRM0020BBK-NESN) is on sale for $63 with free shipping with up to three per customer at the sale price.

UPDATE #1b: speaking of storage, B&H Photo is offering the new condition 2TB G-Technology G-DRIVE mobile, USB 3.1 Gen 1 Hard Drive, for $65 with free shipping and handling. You can buy as many as you like…

UPDATE #2: speaking of Amazon, Prime members can buy the Kindle Paperwhite e-reader for $80 with free shipping. This is the best bang for the buck among the current Kindles…

April 10, 2018 Filed Under: memory cards and storage Tagged With: ,

(ENDED) 4TB WD Elements External HDD for $80 w/FS

As of a 4/4/18 recheck, this sale ended… If you are not in a hurry to receive this, B&H Photo is offering the new condition 4TB WD Elements External Desktop Hard Disk Drive, model Elements External Desktop Hard Disk Drive, for $80 with free shipping. Maximum two per customer. This will ship after B&H reopens on Sunday.

April 1, 2018 Filed Under: memory cards and storage Tagged With: ,

(ENDED) Saturday: World BackUp Day = Storage Deals (Toshi, WD, Synology, etc)

These daily deals expired…

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March 30, 2018 Filed Under: memory cards and storage Tagged With: ,

(ENDED) 8TB WD Easystore External HDD USB 3 for $153 [ends 10pm ET]

This eBay flash coupon promotion expired…

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March 19, 2018 Filed Under: memory cards and storage Tagged With: , ,

1TB Seagate Expansion USB 3.0 HDD for $46 w/FS

If you don’t want to put all your storage eggs into one basket, and you like the idea of 1TB external hard drives, the new condition 1TB Seagate Expansion USB 3.0 (model STEA1000400) is currently on sale for $46 with free shipping by Amazon itself. You can buy as may as you want. This is not a lightning deal.

March 13, 2018 Filed Under: memory cards and storage Tagged With: ,

(ENDED) 8TB WD Easystore External USB 3.0 HDD for $160

This sale ended… To the eBay Deals we go, frantically trying to reload inventory after that surprise 12-hour 20% off flash-sale coupon. The official Best Buy eBay store is offering the new condition 8TB WD Easystore External USB 3.0 hard drive for $160 with free shipping.

March 10, 2018 Filed Under: memory cards and storage Tagged With: , ,

512GB WD MyPassport SSD (USB-C, USB-A) for $140

Speaking of storage, the new condition 512GB WD MyPassport Portable SSD is on sale for $140 with free shipping by Amazon itself with up to three per customer at the sale price. The shipping estimate is 1-3 weeks, a sign that it is starting to run out. This works with USB-C version 3.1 (and Gen 2 ready). And of course it is backwards compatible with USB 3.0 and 2.0 full size (Type A, not Taipei).

March 7, 2018 Filed Under: memory cards and storage Tagged With: ,

(ENDED) 4TB WD Elements External Desktop HDD for $80

This limited time sale ended… If you are a fan of 4TB external hard drives, B&H Photo is offering for a limited time (expires Wednesday night or earlier if sold out) the new condition WD 4TB Elements External Desktop Hard Disk Drive, model WDBWLG0040HBK-NESN, for $80 with free expedited shipping. Limit ONE per customer.

March 5, 2018 Filed Under: memory cards and storage Tagged With: ,

Select Canon Full Frame DSLRs get FREE 4TB HDD and 64GB Sandisk Extreme card

Select Canon 35mm full frame DSLRs get a free 4TB WD external hard disk and a 64GB Sandisk Extreme card included automatically by B&H Photo as part of their WPPI festivities.

February 25, 2018 Filed Under: canon, dslr deals Tagged With: , , , , ,

(ENDED) Thursday Daily Deals: Storage, Networking, Samsung Curved Monitors

These daily deals expired…

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February 21, 2018 Filed Under: memory cards and storage, samsung, technology deals Tagged With: , , , , ,

(ENDED) 8TB Seagate Expansion External USB 3 HDD for $140

As of 2/17/18 AM recheck, both of the HDDs mentioned in this post went up by $10…

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February 15, 2018 Filed Under: memory cards and storage Tagged With: ,

4TB WD Elements External HDD USB 3.0 for $100

If 4TB is your preferred external hard drive storage amount, at the moment, the new condition 4TB Western Digital Elements USB 3.0 External HDD, model WDBU6Y0040BBK-WESN, is on sale for $100 with free shipping at Amazon by Amazon actual. This is not a lightning deal. You can buy as many as you want (well, up to thirty units).

February 9, 2018 Filed Under: memory cards and storage Tagged With: ,

(ENDED) Sat: refurb 1TB Seagate 3.5″ Internal HDD for $30 w/FS

This daily deal expired…

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January 19, 2018 Filed Under: memory cards and storage Tagged With: , ,

External Hard Drives on sale at B&H (89 options)

All your data is belong to you! But you must need make backups. Many and more backups. And have an organized plan in place to recover what you need when you need it! If it sounds like homework, it’s because it is! Okay, PSA time over 🙂

B&H Photo is having a sale on 89 External Hard Drives on their website. The list is sorted by best-selling order, but you can also sort it by price, or use the left-hand side to filter the results by manufacturer, or capacity, or connector (there’s a dozen USB-C options and one Thunderbolt), and more!

Participating manufacturers include WD, Seagate, G-Tech, Lacie, and more!

December 13, 2017 Filed Under: memory cards and storage Tagged With:

8TB Seagate External USB 3.0 HDDs for $150 (Expansion or BackUp Plus Hub)

Two different 8TB Seagate external USB 3.0 hard drives are on sale for $150 each at Amazon by Amazon itself as follows:

+ 8TB Seagate Backup Plus Hub External Desktop Hard Drive Storage (STEL8000100) for $150
+ same price for the Mac version
+ limit ten of each
+ went for $150 during Black Friday madness

+ 8TB Seagate Expansion Desktop External Hard Drive USB 3.0 (STEB8000100) for $150
+ went for $142.50 during Black Friday madness
+ limit three per customer

December 11, 2017 Filed Under: memory cards and storage Tagged With: ,

8TB Seagate Expansion External USB 3.0 HDD for $150

If you miss this on Black Cyber Friday-Monday for $142.49, this is back on sale, but for $150 instead with a limit of up to ten per customer. It is the STEB8000100, aka the 8TB Seagate Expansion Desktop External Hard Drive USB 3.0 offered for $150 with free shipping.

Speaking of Amazon, the 8GB / 256GB Pixelbook is down from $1199 to $1161~. The 8GB / 128GB Pixelbook remains at $999. The bundles with the Stylus go for $99 more.

December 5, 2017 Filed Under: memory cards and storage Tagged With: ,