You really can never have too much storage space. If you’re someone who works regularly with large files, like a photographer or videographer, you know this all too well. So when you can find digital storage selling at discounted prices, that is a gift. Amazon happens to have this UnionSine hard drive on sale for 15% off. Normally, you’d find this selling for $69, but the Prime Day deal brings it down to just $59 for a limited time.
Note this is is a hard disk drive, not a solid state drive. SSDs pretty much blow all HDDs out of the water in terms of speed. This hard drive is only working with a read speed of up to 125MB/s and a write speed of up to 103MB/s. If we compare that to something like Samsung’s T7—a fairly popular portable solid state drive—that is working with read and write speeds of up to 1,050/1,000 MB/s, roughly ten times as fast. However, the 1TB version of that sells for nearly $300. If you’re primarily concerned with setting yourself up withe extra space and aren’t too concerned with speeds, you can save yourself quite a bit of cash by just sticking with a regular old hard drive like this one from UnionSine.
The UnionSine hard drive measure in at roughly four and a half inches by three inches and is half an inch thick—small enough to comfortably fit in your pocket. It’s exterior shell is equipped with a striped non-slip design. This makes it easier to handle and the strips in it even allow for better heat dissipation.
The hard drive is simple plug and play. It’s fitted with a standard USB cable that plugs into any USB 3.0 or USB 2.0 port. Though, it is possible you can experience insufficient power supply when using USB 2.0, leading to data reading issues down the line.
Store Your Xbox and PlayStation Games
If you’re still playing on retro gaming consoles like the Xbox One or PlayStation 4 (yes, you heard me…. retro gaming consoles like the Xbox One or PlayStation 4) this hard drive can make for an acceptable storage solution for your digital library of games. You can play games directly off the hard drive itself without needed to move files back and forth between the HDD and your console. The read/write speeds unfortunately are not fast enough to keep up with the modern hardware of the Xbox Series X|S or the PlayStation 5.
