200 GB of OneDrive storage for 2 years for less than $2

"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury) 01/01/2016 at 20:52 • Filed to: None

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I bought a few external drive cases for 2.5” SATA drives for $1.50 each. They came shipped in the original Seagate Backup Plus Slim boxes as my recently-acquired 2TB drive (Target clearance - $60). The boxes still have the drive serial number, and when I registered them I found that each one was eligible for the 200GB of online storage. 5 cases = 1TB for 2 years = $7.50. Not a bad deal, plus I can convert my spare drives into USB3 externals. Win/win!

Nibby > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/01/2016 at 21:04

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Archive all of oppo, including the old off-topic

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Nibby 01/01/2016 at 21:10

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But what do I do in two years? I like cloud storage, I just don’t want to pay for it...

Nibby > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/01/2016 at 21:21

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Have gawker pay

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Nibby 01/01/2016 at 21:27

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Well, if they can afford it they can put a 120TB array in my house instead. I know the cost isn’t the same, but I will graciously let them use a couple of TB for their own needs.

Nibby > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/01/2016 at 21:36

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Honestly I have no clue how people use so much data. My desktop which I do game design video editing some 3D modeling, etc I have 160gb free on my SSD and 600GB free on my 1TB

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Nibby 01/01/2016 at 21:49

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Typical hoarding behaviour. I know I’m guilty of this. I download something, swap in another drive, can’t remember where that item is so I download it again. At one point I automated the download from my TiVo to my computer so that I didn’t lose anything if I couldn’t watch it in time, and as a result I have 600GB of unwatched video taking up space on a drive. I stopped that when I got a bigger TiVo, and since I haven’t watched those downloaded shows in the 4 years they’ve been sitting there I can probably dump them.

I recently swapped the hard drive in my notebook, going from 250 to 640 GB. I made a 140GB partition for Windows and the rest for OSX, but over half of the drive is still free, and thus when I swap in a 256GB SSD next week it really shouldn’t affect the usability of the machine. Much of the Mac side is filled with music from the previous owner, and I should probably just dump it.

I have the same songs on my 5GB original iPod that I put on there in 2002 and I’m happy with the mix. I’ve got a 60GB iPod with less than 10GB used. I did a CompactFlash upgrade to a friend’s 160GB iPod (remove hard drive and install 64GB CF card), and popped his original drive into one of my spare iPods. Even dumping just about everything I could find onto it I still have more than half of the space available.

Nibby > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/01/2016 at 21:59

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O_o that’s insane. So much... movies and TV shows