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2TB TeamGroup AX2 3D NAND 2.5" SATA III Internal Solid State Drive

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TEAMGROUP Inc. via Amazon has 2TB TeamGroup AX2 SATA III 3D NAND TLC Internal SSD (T253A3002T0C101) on sale for $84.99 > Now: $81.49. Shipping is free.

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  • Uses SATA III 6Gb/s transfer interface.
  • Read/write speed up to 550/500 MB/s.
  • Includes a 3-year or 1,600 TBW (Terabytes Written) limited warranty

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TEAMGROUP Inc. via Amazon has 2TB TeamGroup AX2 SATA III 3D NAND TLC Internal SSD (T253A3002T0C101) on sale for $84.99 > Now: $81.49. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Deal Hunter tDames for finding this deal.

Product Features:
  • Uses SATA III 6Gb/s transfer interface.
  • Read/write speed up to 550/500 MB/s.
  • Includes a 3-year or 1,600 TBW (Terabytes Written) limited warranty

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SonneZ
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We were all waiting for graphic card crash, but instead of that, we got SSD crash…how low can they go? I'm piling up SSDs, must resist.
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You know you're old when other think CDs' 650MB storage is small. We had to game on 2 or 3 floppy discs(1.4MB).

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We were all waiting for graphic card crash, but instead of that, we got SSD crash…how low can they go? I'm piling up SSDs, must resist.
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I am considering using 2 of these in a cache pool for unRAID and moving nextcloud onto it for better performance. Any thoughts on this? Everything loads pretty slow right now
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Quote from Nopenopenopey :
I am considering using 2 of these in a cache pool for unRAID and moving nextcloud onto it for better performance. Any thoughts on this? Everything loads pretty slow right now
If you have the m.2 slots you'd be better off with NVME's. I guess it wouldn't really matter given your most likely on a 1g nic. But yea I just did the same thing with 2 1tb Intel's that were on sale a few weeks ago coming from a 250gb ssd. Even adding an ssd for caching makes a big difference in performance.
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Quote from SonneZ :
We were all waiting for graphic card crash, but instead of that, we got SSD crash…how low can they go? I'm piling up SSDs, must resist.
Grab as many as you can lol. I haven't bought anything yet but this is on my list. I may just grab 2 of these myself. I need to replace my HDDs and just use them as cold storage.

Quote from Nopenopenopey :
I am considering using 2 of these in a cache pool for unRAID and moving nextcloud onto it for better performance. Any thoughts on this? Everything loads pretty slow right now


Nextcloud is rough getting to speed up in general lol. I'm running Unraid also and attached Redis to the installation and moving it to a SSD is definitely on my to do list and I hope that helps it.
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Quote from tDames :
Grab as many as you can lol. I haven't bought anything yet but this is on my list. I may just grab 2 of these myself. I need to replace my HDDs and just use them as cold storage.





Nextcloud is rough getting to speed up in general lol. I'm running Unraid also and attached Redis to the installation and moving it to a SSD is definitely on my to do list and I hope that helps it.
Redis and cachin on this would definitely help. I use Photoprism, to view pictures, and all the preview files rest on SSD, performance is a lot better.

You can also generate preview files via docker command recommend running that if you have just imported a bunch of pictures. I do the same for Photoprism. I just got a 4TB SSD to also cache compatible personal videos etc.

Also this one is a dram less SSD.
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Quote from i_max2k2 :
Redis and cachin on this would definitely help. I use Photoprism, to view pictures, and all the preview files rest on SSD, performance is a lot better.

You can also generate preview files via docker command recommend running that if you have just imported a bunch of pictures. I do the same for Photoprism. I just got a 4TB SSD to also cache compatible personal videos etc.

Also this one is a dram less SSD.

Thats true. I may get Photoprism back. I have Immich and waiting for the option to scan a folder or drive to get added. I think this ssd should be fine since the files aren't big files that need to be cached. I gotta test it out though.
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dramless?

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Yes they are Dramless
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Quote from Jinxc :
dramless?
In my own words and totally not a copy/paste:
The DRAM on an SSD is used to store data mapping tables, which keeps track of logical blocks and their physical locations in NAND. On DRAM-less SSDs this mapping table is stored in NAND. Since NAND is slower than DRAM, DRAM-less SSDs' performance may be slower than SSDs with a DRAM cache
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What is the difference between ax and ex?
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Quote from JamieL2159 :
In my own words and totally not a copy/paste:
The DRAM on an SSD is used to store data mapping tables, which keeps track of logical blocks and their physical locations in NAND. On DRAM-less SSDs this mapping table is stored in NAND. Since NAND is slower than DRAM, DRAM-less SSDs' performance may be slower than SSDs with a DRAM cache
Random access, especially writes, are much slower with dramless SATA drives, as in HDD slow. You definitely do not want to do any photo/video/database work on one, nor do you want the system using it for swap/virtual memory/page file. The difference is much less significant with NVME drives because those use the system RAM via HMB.
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How much storage do I really need? Very tempting at this price.
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Great deal, but I don't need this right now. Should I stock it up?
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Quote from mormoneymorproblems :
How much storage do I really need? Very tempting at this price.
Yes we are now in the era where a single game can be more than 200gb.

Remember when games needed to fit on a single DVD? That was the last time I gamed, just recently got back to it. Was shocked I needed to buy a 1TB drive just to store games.
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Quote from Scintillation :
Yes we are now in the era where a single game can be more than 200gb.

Remember when games needed to fit on a single DVD? That was the last time I gamed, just recently got back to it. Was shocked I needed to buy a 1TB drive just to store games.
You know you're old when other think CDs' 650MB storage is small. We had to game on 2 or 3 floppy discs(1.4MB).
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