I just ordered a 240GB Kingston drive for $35 USD, along with a USB C enclosure. Can't wait to test this thing out!

I hope you looked for a USB-C enclosure that is confirmed to have UAS/UASP support, right?

Excellent choice!

A problem with their math. it should only take 2-3 seconds with UASP.

So I might regret this, but I just picked up two of these WD 8TB external drives. I've ripped them open and one by one replaced two 3TB drives in my Synology. Once this second one is in place I should have much more space, and I plan on swapping out more in the future. I'm planning on ripping most of my old DVDs and storing them on there. These drives probably aren't very good, but they seem to be liked enough by other Synology owners who are just looking for inexpensive storage. I'm not trying to beat any speed records, I'm protected from one disk failure, and if the whole thing goes down I'm not storing anything vital on there (though what little I am is being backed up to the cloud).

I'll probably kick myself for not splurging on 10TB right now, but the cost was about %40 higher for that additional 2TB. Currently the 8TB drives are on sale for only about $15 more than the 6TB drives so that was a no-brainer.

I had the opposite problem. I had to twist the arm of my computer store to get me a hard drive as small as 3TB. Cost me $2100. That's pesos, not dollars. Figure about $116 USD.

No doubt I could have shopped around on-line and found it cheaper, but now it is taking eight weeks or longer to get a package through Mexican customs [thank you, Mr. Trump] and the store (not the manufacturer) is giving me a three year warranty. I have had occassion to use the store's warranty, and it is immediate, no questions asked.

I remember paying about $600 USD for an upgrade to a monster 640MB hard drive on my '386 computer, a little under a dollar a megabyte. Now I just paid less than four one-thousandths of a penny per megabyte.

It's mind-boggling.

tanstaafl.

FYI the Western Digital 10TB external drive is on a HUGE sale today for only $159. Easily the lowest price it's ever been. I bought two to finish off my Synology upgrade.

Where did you see that one?

-jk

US$159: https://www.amazon.com/10TB-Elements-Desktop-Drive-WDBWLG0100HBK-NESN/dp/B07G3QMPB5/

So.. to clarify, you bought some of these WDBWLG0100HBK-NESN external drives, opened them up, and found real native SATA drives inside? Good. Just asking, because WD have in the past created drives with native USB interfaces for use inside their (2.5") enclosures.

Thanks.

Yep just standard drives. They're only a minor pain to get open but not too bad. Then I can just swap out the Synology drives one by one, tell the system to repair the volume, and presto (meaning a day or so later) I've got more storage.