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expired Posted by BluegrassPicker • Dec 6, 2022
Dec 6, 2022 5:36 PM
PNY CS900 3D NAND 2.5" SATA III SSD: 500GB $27, 240GB
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nvme is easier to install, however.
Normal 2.5 SATA, and an M.2 SATA, NOT M.2 NVME. So....same speed.
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Having said that this is what I discovered. If you download more than 1-2GB of data, the write speed will crawl down to 30-70mbps because of the lack of a dram cache. Which can be super dumb if your installing a game onto it or transferring data back to the drive.
I've done this test on other dram cacheless drives and have gotten similar results except for Kingston and crucial BX series. I've done similar tests with 5-10gb and they still didn't slow down to micro sd memory card speeds.
.... soon after installing them my kids decided they liked Win 10 better anyways and were booting over to the hard drive with that operating system instead so the one problem drive went unnoticed ... booted into the problem drive as I did every now and then to update Win 8 anyways (programs on Win 8 I want to keep I can't migrate to Win 10 long story) and the one drive could not recover no matter what I did... I ended up just ditching Win 8 on that PC completely as I should have done a long time ago, tried plugging the problem PNY drive into another PC and got the could not do input/output error so it looks like the drive failed completely and within it's 3 year warranty period.
I was lucky in that my credit card just paid me for what I purchased it for back then thanks to the extended warranty a lot of credit card companies offer.. and again I could have just had the bad luck of getting a not so great drive.
One thing I've noticed in my research is the need for a reliable drive if you're going to use it for say Windows given all the read/writes Windows does to a drive... I would personally pay more if it's going to be a Windows drive and go with something like this
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0781VS...PDGS3
tom's hardware has rated it the best budget ssd drive four years in a row... on the other hand as others have said if you're upgrading a very old PC you don't want to spend a lot of money on anyways then no harm in grabbing these PNY drives and seeing how it goes ... they'll definitely be faster than any non ssd drive, I'm just wondering how reliable they'll be as time goes on.
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/revi...ENT&page
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But yes, I can believe a normal everyday or relatively frequently used device with these could fail based on what you say, and reviews.
nvme is easier to install, however.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PS4/comm...d/gb7u7nm/
SATA drives arent bad and its still a huge upgrade over traditional HDD's. Im still using mine for the OS and everything else except games. But if your mobo has a M.2 slot you should be using a NVME drive.
.... soon after installing them my kids decided they liked Win 10 better anyways and were booting over to the hard drive with that operating system instead so the one problem drive went unnoticed ... booted into the problem drive as I did every now and then to update Win 8 anyways (programs on Win 8 I want to keep I can't migrate to Win 10 long story) and the one drive could not recover no matter what I did... I ended up just ditching Win 8 on that PC completely as I should have done a long time ago, tried plugging the problem PNY drive into another PC and got the could not do input/output error so it looks like the drive failed completely and within it's 3 year warranty period.
I was lucky in that my credit card just paid me for what I purchased it for back then thanks to the extended warranty a lot of credit card companies offer.. and again I could have just had the bad luck of getting a not so great drive.
One thing I've noticed in my research is the need for a reliable drive if you're going to use it for say Windows given all the read/writes Windows does to a drive... I would personally pay more if it's going to be a Windows drive and go with something like this
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0781VS...PDGS3
tom's hardware has rated it the best budget ssd drive four years in a row... on the other hand as others have said if you're upgrading a very old PC you don't want to spend a lot of money on anyways then no harm in grabbing these PNY drives and seeing how it goes ... they'll definitely be faster than any non ssd drive, I'm just wondering how reliable they'll be as time goes on.
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