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SK hynix Gold S31 2.5" 3D NAND SATA III Internal SSD: 500GB $45.60, 1TB Expired
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SK hynix via Amazon has select SK hynix Gold S31 2.5" 3D NAND SATA III Internal Solid State Drives on sale listed below. Shipping is free.
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- Sequential read speeds up to 560MB/s and sequential write speeds up to 525MB/s.
- Leading edge solution powered by in-house 3D NAND, controller and DRAM
- Superior reliability and stability (MTBF/TBW). 1.5 Million Hours MTBF, best-in-class 600 TBW (terabytes written)
- 5 year warranty
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SK hynix via Amazon [amazon.com] has 1TB SK hynix Gold S31 2.5" 3D NAND Internal Solid State Drive for $83.19. Shipping is free.
SK hynix via Amazon [amazon.com] has 500GB SK hynix Gold S31 2.5" 3D NAND Internal Solid State Drive for $45.59. Shipping is free.
SK hynix via Amazon [amazon.com] has 500GB SK hynix Gold S31 2.5" 3D NAND Internal Solid State Drive for $45.59. Shipping is free.
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Remember the stone ages when someone would turn on a computer, and there would be enough time to go to the bathroom or make a cup of tea before the login screen was loaded? And by the time the computer was ready for you, you have to remember why you turned it on in the first place?
Same thing happens now, except replace bathroom/tea breaks with a quick alt-tab to email/social media/any fast consumption product.
It isn't obvious, but having faster hardware will minimize those potential distractions - time lost/gained is only a small part of the equation.
Not saying that paying extreme premiums for faster stuff is worth it; just noting that when it comes to speed, the benefits aren't because it takes less time, but because it creates less interruptions.
There are very, very few things I can do in a second or two to cause an interruption. Just shifting my position to fart more comfortably is more of an interruption than the differences between SSDs.
Can't figure out you are one of those brand shills or just trolling. In either case, not a good look dude. Stop making a fool of yourself in everybody's eyes.
Everyone lives and breathes by benchmarks except when it comes to NVMe vs SATA?
What a bunch of malarkey if you ask me. If a few seconds or minutes here and there don't matter then let's all buy Intel i3 or AMD 3000-series, right? It's only time.
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Look at the reviews on their site for the P2
https://www.crucial.com/ssd/p2/ct500p2ssd8
Everyone lives and breathes by benchmarks except when it comes to NVMe vs SATA?
What a bunch of malarkey if you ask me. If a few seconds or minutes here and there don't matter then let's all buy Intel i3 or AMD 3000-series, right? It's only time.
If you are gaming or code development or video processing for example, an i7 with a fast NVMe SSD would be noticeably faster than an i3 with a SATA ssd. Enough to add hours cumulatively to your work.
Everybody assumes their use case is everybody's use case. At the same time blindly using benvhmarks regardless of use case isn't smart either if that means spending more money.
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Everyone lives and breathes by benchmarks except when it comes to NVMe vs SATA?
What a bunch of malarkey if you ask me. If a few seconds or minutes here and there don't matter then let's all buy Intel i3 or AMD 3000-series, right? It's only time.
in the back, on the factory seal both sides, when you open,
Opening the seal means you consent to a class action waiver and binding arbitration. So if in 3 years your drive garbles data and silent data corruption in your backups (and thousands of other users), and it's because of a firmware error Hynix was aware of and decided it wasn't worth fixing (or any number of other corporate shenanigans), you are left without reasonable recourse.
Also for what it's worth I get better speeds on the Crucial MX500 1 TB than the Hynix drives. But they are pretty close.
Are you saying the mx500 gives you better speeds than the P31 or just the S31? You mention Hynix "drives"
In reality, you do not see that significant 4-time like difference, just marginal.
In reality, you do not see that significant 4-time like difference, just marginal.
Ok thought it sounded it a little off. I picked up a P31 a few days ago and thought you meant the mx500 was just as fast. I do a lot of photo editing with 45mp raw files so I need the speed...
Remember the stone ages when someone would turn on a computer, and there would be enough time to go to the bathroom or make a cup of tea before the login screen was loaded? And by the time the computer was ready for you, you have to remember why you turned it on in the first place?
Same thing happens now, except replace bathroom/tea breaks with a quick alt-tab to email/social media/any fast consumption product.
It isn't obvious, but having faster hardware will minimize those potential distractions - time lost/gained is only a small part of the equation.
Not saying that paying extreme premiums for faster stuff is worth it; just noting that when it comes to speed, the benefits aren't because it takes less time, but because it creates less interruptions.
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There are very, very few things I can do in a second or two to cause an interruption. Just shifting my position to fart more comfortably is more of an interruption than the differences between SSDs.
It is ultimately going to depend on the task you're doing that will determine how much processing time something requires. Sure, 1-2 seconds is practically nothing, and is ideally close to the range we seek. For people working with larger data sets, a NVMe SSD is going to be about 8x faster than a SATA SSD with regards to random reads. That time difference gets bigger the larger the data you're working with. In your example, 8-16 seconds (assuming your 1-2 seconds is with NVMe speeds) with a standard SSD is not an insignificant amount of time. People spend less time on webpages when browsing, lol. If you're talking about 1-2 seconds with a standard SSD, yeah, your tasks do not require faster speeds.