expiredtDames | Staff posted Apr 18, 2023 05:16 AM
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expiredtDames | Staff posted Apr 18, 2023 05:16 AM
1TB Teamgroup T-Force Vulcan Z SLC Cache TLC 2.5" SATA Solid State Drive
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As far as I know, it should function as it should for a NAS. I have a old Crucial 256gb in my NAS and has been fine and TeamGroup makes some pretty solid drives.
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Sent it back for an MX500 and was all good. Also the Kingston drive is a good cheap budget drive too. Just depends on price and sales
If you set up in RAID, perhaps a SSD would be what your thinking as the Radom access speed and bandwidth come into play
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If you set up in RAID, perhaps a SSD would be what your thinking as the Radom access speed and bandwidth come into play
The latency is much lower than an HDD. Even though you still need to add the network latency on top of either, that'll make a noticeable difference when working with lots of small files instead of copying or moving a few big ones.
If you run apps or VMs on your NAS, the experience is much smoother with an SSD.
And if you're lucky enough to have 5gbps or 10gbps networking, your HDD can easily become the bottleneck, instead of the network. In non-RAID setups, that can even happen with 2.5gbps, which is becoming standard on many devices.
The latency is much lower than an HDD. Even though you still need to add the network latency on top of either, that'll make a noticeable difference when working with lots of small files instead of copying or moving a few big ones.
If you run apps or VMs on your NAS, the experience is much smoother with an SSD.
And if you're lucky enough to have 5gbps or 10gbps networking, your HDD can easily become the bottleneck, instead of the network. In non-RAID setups, that can even happen with 2.5gbps, which is becoming standard on many devices.
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If you set up in RAID, perhaps a SSD would be what your thinking as the Radom access speed and bandwidth come into play
That said, RAID is not a backup so I am backing up to my old hard drives including offsite copies, but those are once-in-a-while backups using old gear, so the cost is low.
The bottleneck is not always LAN speed; more and more people are upgrading from Gigabit Ethernet to 2.5G, 5G, or 10G as it becomes more affordable. But yes, if you are stuck on 1G and don't plan to upgrade and don't care about futureproofing, hard drives are technically cheaper per GB in upfront costs and the LAN will bottleneck performance.
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- but - I also recently bought a Teamgroup USB flash drive and it SUCKS. No failure but the performance is abysmal, it lags and "stutters" with read/writes, when plugged into USB3 it acts worse than a USB2 drive.
Anyway, people commonly want the "best and most reliable" drive for their boot drives, and then supplement with other lesser drives for other stuff. I go the opposite. I use cheap stuff for boot / app drives as all of that is easy to re-do with a failure, and then use more expensive redundant options for data as well as cloud backups.
Also agree cant go wrong with an MX500. Thats a solid bread and butter drive right there.
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