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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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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.
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin...t_ba
the alarming thing is I just bought a 1 TB drive crucial MX500 drive and installed it onto my daughter's desktop and on top of that I have the 500 GB version as her " C " drive - cripes I have crucial MX500's as the boot drive for all three desktop PC's based on previous positive reviews and recommendations
So fingers crossed my drives do not fall into the problem batch
https://www.pcworld.com/article/4...eview.html
but pcworld lists other options too
https://www.pcworld.com/article/4...vices.html
so if you have a reliable ssd (or even non sss drive) you have lying around and a sata enclosure that works via a usb cable (pretty cheap nowadays especially around black friday/winter xmas sales) you could use macrium or some other program to make a backup that "lives" away from the PC .. apparently this is the best option in case some nasty virus locks up all the drives on your PC the old "ransomware" thing ... or if you're confident everyone living in your household has the know-how to avoid this sort of thing on their computers
[Read]
SEQ 1MiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 473.224 MB/s [ 451.3 IOPS] < 2213.10 us>
RND 4KiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 24.590 MB/s [ 6003.4 IOPS] < 166.23 us>
[Write]
SEQ 1MiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 6.496 MB/s [ 6.2 IOPS] <156900.42 us>
RND 4KiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 6.603 MB/s [ 1612.1 IOPS] < 619.01 us>
Full scan showed no errors, drive health shows good with 75% life with 21 TBW. "Assembled in USA" in their NJ factory. Opened a tech support ticket but was told it was out of warranty and the drive was no longer supported.
Never buying PNY again.
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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.
I can see video editing or batch photo editing also benefiting from fast SSDs. A lot of the typical tasks though, not so much.
Downloading/installing Steam games? Sadly capped by my 200 Mbps (25 MB/s) internet connection. Maybe game/level loading could benefit for areas that load GBs of data.
Copying files to/from NAS? Bottlenecked by gigabit ethernet (1 Gbps or 125 MB/s).
Backing up files to external HDD? Limited by HDD speeds (50-200 MB/s depending on 2.5"/3.5" HDD & RPM, file sizes, how full the drive is and fragmentation).
That said, DRAM-less drives tend to perform poorly with sustained writes. If I'm buying a 1-4TB SSD for use in a decent PC, I'd opt for Crucial MX500 or Samsung 870 EVO if I need 2.5" SATA or Samsung 980 PRO for NVMe.
Ultra cheap upgrade to a 10-year old PC with mechanical HDD? A DRAM-less SSD at <$20 for 240-250GB or <$30 for 480-500GB is fine.
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