B&H Photo Video has
500GB 2.5" Samsung 870 EVO SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (MZ-77E500B/AM) on sale for
$59.99.
Shipping is free.
Samsung also has
500GB 2.5" Samsung 870 EVO SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (MZ-77E500B/AM) on sale for
$59.99.
Shipping is free.
Amazon also has
500GB 2.5" Samsung 870 EVO SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (MZ-77E500B/AM) on sale for
$59.99.
Shipping is free.
Newegg also has
500GB 2.5" Samsung 870 EVO SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (MZ-77E500B/AM) on sale for
$59.99.
Shipping is free.
Best Buy also has
500GB 2.5" Samsung 870 EVO SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (MZ-77E500B/AM) on sale for
$59.99.
Shipping is free.
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So if we are talking about bit rot in arrays, we are talking about protected data, we are talking about not having an issue when an SSD dies, because the data is still there in the form of partial data and parity data, it survives, but you have to go through a process to recover it.
Your argument about SSDs dying is blown out of proportion, I have seen hundreds of HDDs die and not a single SSD, yes the failure tends to be more catastrophic in SSDs, but seriously, even if your HDD dies, are you going to pay thousands of dollars for a data recovery service? It's more likely you will never see your SSD die than needing recovery service.
It's a whole lot better to have an SSD suddenly die in an array than to have an HDD spinning forever but slowly dying with bad sectors (that's how the bit rot occurs). Besides, my argument still stands, SSDs are virtually immune to bit rot, they do not have mechanical sectors that go bad, they only lose information if they are left unpowered for long periods of time and that's only corner cases on newer and crappier quality QLC drives.
See, I got 3 downvotes on that other post that I deleted because people just "read" something somewhere but have no interest in actually understanding it, they read info they are not interested and downvote, Slickdeals used to be a place of sharing and learning, now it's just a hub for trolls and haters. WTF happened to Slickdeals?
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Personally speaking, I use this:
https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-c...th=1&psc=1
This SSD in this listing is robust just like you said, the outside aluminum casing can take quite the beating but it scratches fairly easy, just please don't touch the exposed gold plated pads (where the connection occurs), I've never seen any SSD or HDD die due to finger electrostatic discharge, but better be safe than sorry. Once you plug in the adapter, you are golden, the gold pads will be covered and it works very well as a portable storage.
The only possible way to man-handle this (from experience) is to somehow force a bending point in between the USB adapter and the drive, it is possible and the SATA port will slightly bend. I learned this the hard way when trying cheap SSD enclosures, I had to insert and remove the drive at an angle forcing the port, and after a couple of tries, I noticed the port had a very subtle, almost unnoticeable separation (outward) from the aluminum case. But just carrying around with the drive and USB adapter installed will not damage it, you have to really apply force to it. That's the only "heads up, don't man-handle it this way" I could give you.
Be advised, there may be limitations on the formatting which are equally applicable to regular "thumb" drives.
Any way I can get the difference from Amazon? I don't see any options other than to return them. Oh well, still worth the money.
Just bought them about 2 weeks ago.
ordered one last night well the fedex guy just came by
but it was not a HARD DRIVE!!
its a damn Keurig K mini plus
so I gotta waste my time going to best buy to fix this
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Imaging copies your hard drive but it doesn't copy the free space that's on the hard drive
Cloning copies every thing including free space . It makes an exact copy of your C drive onto another drive .
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