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External SSD wish list • Deals on OWC
$220 SAVE $130 = 37.0% Western Digital 16.0TB Western Digital Ultrastar DC HC550 3.5-in… in Storage: Hard Drives	$500 SAVE $75 = 13.0% OWC 1.0TB OWC Atlas Pro SDXC V60 UHS-II Memory Card (2-Pack) in All Other Categories	$680 OWC 2.0TB OWC Atlas Ultra CFexpress 4.0 Type B Memory Card in All Other Categories	$580 OWC 4.0TB OWC Envoy Pro Elektron USB-C Portable NVMe SSD in All Other Categories	$630 OWC 4.0TB OWC Express 1M2 USB4 (40Gb/s) Bus-Powered Portable NVM… in All Other Categories	$2380 OWC 72.0TB OWC ThunderBay 4 Four-Drive Thunderbolt External Stor… in All Other Categories

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Sony Mirrorless wish list • Deals on Sony
$2997 Nikon Z7 II Mirrorless Camera OUT OF STOCK in Cameras: Mirrorless	$2297 Nikon D780 DSLR OUT OF STOCK in Cameras: DSLR	$2997 Nikon D850 DSLR OUT OF STOCK in Cameras: DSLR	$720 ZEISS 32mm f/1.8 Touit Lens for FUJIFILM X OUT OF STOCK in Lenses: Mirrorless	$497 Pentax 70mm f/2.4 HD Pentax DA Limited IN STOCK in Lenses: DSLR

Terms Used in Virtual Memory Test Graphs

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Related: hard drive, laptop, MacBook, MacBook Pro, memory, optimization, Other World Computing, Seagate, software, SSD, storage

The graphs use the following acronyms and terms are used:

Core i7         = MacBook Pro 17" (April 2010) with 2.66GHz Core i7 processor
Core 2D         = MacBook Pro 17" (2009) with 2.93GHz Core 2 Duo processor
HDD                   = hard disk drive
SSD                   = solid state drive
SSD-OWC-stripe        = 2-drive RAID-0 stripe of OWC Mercury Extreme 200GB SSD
SSD-OWC-mirror        = 2-drive RAID-1 mirror of OWC Mercury Extreme 200GB SSD
SSD-Intel80g1         = Intel X25-M 80GB first generation SSD
SSD-Intel80g2         = Intel X25-M 80GB second generation SSD
HDD-5400rpm-Fujitsu   = Fujitsu 500GB 5400rpm laptop hard drive
HDD-7200rpm-Hitachi   = Hitachi 500GB Travelstar 7K500 7200rpm laptop hard drive
HDD-7200rpm-Seagate   = Seagate Momentus 7200.4 500GB laptop hard drive
SSD-CrucialRealSSD    = Crucial 256GB RealSSD solid state drive
SSD-CrucialM225       = Crucial M225 256GB solid state drive

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