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Amazon has 2TB Lexar NS100 2.5" SATA III TLC Solid State Drive (LNS100-2TRBNA) on sale for $59.99. Shipping is free.

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Product Features:
  • Marvell 88NV1120 Controller
  • No DRAM Cache
  • TLC NAND Flash
  • Read speeds of up to 550MB/s
  • Write speeds of up to 520MB/s

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has 2TB Lexar NS100 2.5" SATA III TLC Solid State Drive on sale for $59.99. Shipping is Free

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Upgrade your laptop or desktop computer for faster startups, data transfers, and application loads with read speeds of up to 550MB/s
Faster performance and more reliable than traditional hard drives
Shock and vibration resistant with no moving parts
Three-year limited product support

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BJ7MTT8M

No dram but TLC so performance remains consistent even when filled.
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Model: Lexar NS100 2TB SATA III 2.5" Internal SSD

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If you're upgrading from a spinning drive, definitely. Like booboloo said, the other factors (lack of dram for instance) won't be a huge deal if you're upgrading an old machine with a traditional platter style hard drive.

I've had good luck with Lexar products in the past, although I haven't used this specific drive. I've used other cheap 2.5 SSDs and *knock on wood* they all work as advertised.

While there are nice advantages with the M.2 PCI-E gen 4 SSDs on the market now that you'd use in a new machine, nothing beats the tremendous jump from an old 5400rpm laptop hdd to an SSD. Going from older 2.5 SATA SSDs to the newer M.2 drives is nice don't get me wrong, but it still doesn't compare with the initial HDD --> SSD switch. My opinion, of course.
Should be fine, the ones with dram like the mx500/samsung evo are still too expensive, on an older machine wouldnt be noticable anyways. 2TB just brute forces its way to performance if you don't fill it up as ssds work better with free space.


Near full it still writes at triple digit speeds unzipping hundreds of GB files, I've had qlc 670p's drop down to double digit under the same conditions, so the dram didn't save the 670p.

Full durability test in chinese because far too many budget drive reviews are write 1GB to an empty drive type superficial conclusions.
https://www.pceva.com.cn/article/4365-1.html use browser translate
Where's the 4TB drives???

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08-30-2023 at 12:49 AM.
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Is this good enough for a boot drive? Need to upgrade an older machine
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08-30-2023 at 05:26 AM.

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08-30-2023 at 05:26 AM.
Quote from SplendidDime3561 :
Is this good enough for a boot drive? Need to upgrade an older machine
Should be fine, the ones with dram like the mx500/samsung evo are still too expensive, on an older machine wouldnt be noticable anyways. 2TB just brute forces its way to performance if you don't fill it up as ssds work better with free space.


Near full it still writes at triple digit speeds unzipping hundreds of GB files, I've had qlc 670p's drop down to double digit under the same conditions, so the dram didn't save the 670p.

Full durability test in chinese because far too many budget drive reviews are write 1GB to an empty drive type superficial conclusions.
https://www.pceva.com.cn/article/4365-1.html use browser translate
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08-30-2023 at 09:48 AM.
08-30-2023 at 09:48 AM.
Quote from SplendidDime3561 :
Is this good enough for a boot drive? Need to upgrade an older machine
If you're upgrading from a spinning drive, definitely. Like booboloo said, the other factors (lack of dram for instance) won't be a huge deal if you're upgrading an old machine with a traditional platter style hard drive.

I've had good luck with Lexar products in the past, although I haven't used this specific drive. I've used other cheap 2.5 SSDs and *knock on wood* they all work as advertised.

While there are nice advantages with the M.2 PCI-E gen 4 SSDs on the market now that you'd use in a new machine, nothing beats the tremendous jump from an old 5400rpm laptop hdd to an SSD. Going from older 2.5 SATA SSDs to the newer M.2 drives is nice don't get me wrong, but it still doesn't compare with the initial HDD --> SSD switch. My opinion, of course.
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08-31-2023 at 02:37 PM.
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Where's the 4TB drives???
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Buck_Flanders
08-31-2023 at 06:30 PM.
08-31-2023 at 06:30 PM.
How good is this as a drive dedicated for new games?
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08-31-2023 at 07:31 PM.
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Where's the 4TB drives???

4TB pfffft. Where are the 128TB drives Samsung said they were going to release in 2016?
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08-31-2023 at 07:46 PM.
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How is this for PS4 pro boot drive?
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09-01-2023 at 12:59 AM.
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How is this for PS4 pro boot drive?

Will cut load times way down, like in half
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09-01-2023 at 08:31 AM.
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Quote from SplendidDime3561 :
Is this good enough for a boot drive? Need to upgrade an older machine
Depends on what you are coming from. I have quite a few machines and the ones without DRAM, I notice the latency. Things like opening up a document, I notice a split second delay. DRAM drives are just snappier.
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lew1
09-01-2023 at 08:35 AM.
09-01-2023 at 08:35 AM.
I bought this for $57 on the last sale for my rasp pi PLEX server, and am returning it.

Write speeds were around 40MB/s transferring movies from my NVMe, meaning it took 10x as long as I'd hoped to write my info to this drive.

Edit: I actually bought the NQ100, my mistake!
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I bought this for $57 on the last sale for my rasp pi PLEX server, and am returning it.

Write speeds were around 40MB/s transferring movies from my NVMe, meaning it took 10x as long as I'd hoped to write my info to this drive.
That's odd. Virtually all the Amazon reviews with CrystalDiskMark benchmarks are showing ~500MB/s sequential both reads and writes. Perhaps it was some sort of SATA bottleneck with the RPi?
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How do people feel about using this as a media storage / project drive for like Davinci/Premier/Photoshop? Primarily for hobbyist video editing, currently using a spinning external harddrive for most of my footage even when editing, would love to have something a little faster for these projects. Would the durability and constant writing make this a poor choice? As projects get moved / overwritten a lot...
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