In addition to Nintendo Switch OLED being in stock, Thursday's best deals include $10 off Philips Hue HomeKit motion sensors, up to $70 off electrical gear like ammeters and tone generators, and $150 off Panasonic ANC headphones.
Wednesday's best deals include more refurbished Apple devices like Apple Watch Series 6 and iPhone SE, $200 off a Panasonic LUMIX digital camera, and a Logitech HD webcam for $60.
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The external storage market has shown renewed vigor in recent years, thanks in part to growth fueled by bus-powered flash-based storage solutions. The introduction of 3D NAND, coupled with the increasing confidence of manufacturers in QLC (4-bits per cell) has brought down the cost of these drives to the point where even a reasonably spacious external SSD can be had for an equally reasonable price. And though this means that NAND manufacturers like Western Digital, Samsung, and Crucial/Micron have an inherent advantage in terms of vertical integration, the availability of cheap flash in the open market has also enabled other vendors to come up with innovative solutions.