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expiredBojjihuntindeals | Staff posted Apr 19, 2023 02:42 PM
1TB PNY CS900 2.5" SATA III Internal Solid State Drive
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DRAM could provide a buffer between the computer memory and the drives blocks that are actually written to (TLC) , the controller has a little but 32MB is full really fast.
Problem for me having the same use case for this drive as Orang3Beard is that in a NAS this could be a great replacement for spinning disks, but in RAID it would be just too limited. The real bottleneck is here :
Die Read Speed: 727 MB/s
Die Write Speed: 69 MB/s
With a die write speed of less then 100MB/s this thing could be in continued write much slower then a comparable HDD. Painfully slow to fill up, probably quite decent to retrieve information from.
Found a review that shows with a screenshot what this could look like:
https://m.media-amazon.com/images...L1600_
Cons:
Reliability seems to be an issue according to some reviews.
Pro's:
Endurance: 450 TBW
Warranty: 3 Years
MTBF: 2.0 Million Hours
For me I would not want to make a ZFS RAIDz2 volume with these. Maybe a normal RAID1 would be cheap peace of mind..
Unless you are refurbishing an old computer for a family member that does not have to work hard daily I believe almost everybody would be helped spending $10-15 more for something better.
At this rate no reason to have spinners anywhere in the house, save for the NAS.
Yeah it's not a performance beast but it's good enough for most users. Time to upgrade Granny's laptop
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three bucks pays for my lunch today, so F yah I'm dropping the unopened package off at UPS enroute to work.
(wilmer007 this is a general comment for everyone not meant to insult your finances or ability to buy things or anything like that
If you can afford the additional $14 (no sarcasm intended, with inflation squeezing us all there are cases where you need to count every penny)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078211...RydWU
(crucial MX500 series of SSD drives, 1 TB, or just search by the model number CT1000MX500SSD1 on amazon if that link doesn't work)
I have three of these running as the C / Windows drive in three different desktop PC's and they've been working great for years now (although of course with m.2 drive prices dropping like crazy too definitely go for that instead if your motherboard supports it )
I would argue they are definitely worth the $14 extra in terms of performance.
Having said that if one has already purchased this PNY drive rather than returning it you could just plug it into your motherboard and use it for storing files as a non Windows drive.
I do have some reservations about this PNY drive based on personal experience as I'm among those disgruntled customers who gave it a negative review (well I didn't get around to giving it a negative review on amazon but still somewhat disgruntled
Worked fine for maybe a year as a Windows 8 drive then started giving the blue screen of death issue more and more often before finally failing on me completely .. that was the 240 GB model mind you not sure if the 1 TB models are built to better/higher quality standards? And it could be just bad luck maybe someone ordering this will get a drive that's just fine.
I would add the precaution however that if you're using this... or any drive for that matter.. for file storage it's always good to have your files backed up... I've seen external drive on sale frequently mentioned here on slickdeals so maybe grab one of those and make sure you periodically back up files you want to keep onto that external drive and save a copy of Windows on that drive too for that matter
(AOEMI backupper is free although I've heard a lot of great things about Macrium Reflect.. kind of expensive at $70 but from what I hear worth it.. if you can somehow get your hands on the Macrium Reflect 7.0 version I can personally testify that free or no it is great backup software to restore Windows from when and if your Windows installation runs into problems).
I don't need SSDs except maybe one for whatever games I'm currently playing and perhaps the OS and would prefer to pay way less for spinners for storing inactive games, movies and everything else.
SSD's are catching up. But right now, for the same price you can get all of your data on an SSD, or you can get all your data on a pair of HDDs. Meaning one for backups.
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Team group ax2 2tb $72 tlc
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08GCKF...th=1&psc=1 [amazon.com]
Team group Vulcan z gaming 1tb $39 but SLC>TLC
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product...psc=1&th=1 [amazon.com]
If you look at Q&A of that Amazon VulcanZ:
"Question:
Does this have ecc (error code correction)? is it slc, tlc, or mlc? thank you.
Answer:
Dear Customer,
Yes, VULCAN SSD supports the ECC function.
And it uses 3D TLC NAND flash.
Thank you for being interesting in our product.
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By TEAMGROUP Inc. Seller on December 9, 2019 "
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i tried to get a credit adjust using the "price is too high" reason for the AMZN return, but Amzn don't care, they'd apparently go through the entire return/repurchase process than to credit $3. I don't understand, but I'm not a Amzn C-suite so WTF do I know?
three bucks pays for my lunch today, so F yah I'm dropping the unopened package off at UPS enroute to work.
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