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At this particular point in time, yes SSD is expensive. But 5~10Gbps USB 3.0 SSD had been very affordable for a long time before 2025.
by riobard 17d ago
At this particular point in time, yes SSD is expensive. But 5~10Gbps USB 3.0 SSD had been very affordable for a long time before 2025.
- debugnik 17d agoUnluckily for us, and the author at the time of writing, we're in 2026.
- Dylan16807 16d agoYou can still get a drive that will beat the ethernet connection by a lot for $50. But also I'd feel weird if I didn't have at least one good flash drive somewhere, so anyone like me would already have it. I'm going to ignore the part where the USB port described in the article sounds broken. A 100% functioning cable, especially a short one for a drive, is not hard to find.
- riobard 16d agoIf you haven't yet got any portable drives in the drawer, chances are high that you rarely need to copy large amount of files around anyway. In which case free tier of cloud sync services would be preferred for the majority of users.