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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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mongorianbeef
09-01-2023 at 10:04 AM.
09-01-2023 at 10:04 AM.
Quote from ijosef :
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.

Going from HDD to SSD/nvme is night day difference. It's similar to going from 60hz to 120+. Just can't go back
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09-01-2023 at 10:56 AM.
09-01-2023 at 10:56 AM.
Quote from BulldogPunch :
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?
I was transferring from the NVMe to this drive with Windows on my gaming PC, to then connect the drive full of media to my rasp pi. It seems fast at writing for the first 1-2GB, but I'm using this 2TB storage SSD for movies and TV shows, and typically moving 50GB+ at a time. All the other tests I see on Amazon are just 1GiB tests.

If you're using this for smaller file writes, I'm sure it's great. And once it's written to, the read speeds are great (for SATA III), but I plan to add to it over it time and I just hate the slow write speeds I've experienced for the minimal savings.

Here's my crystal disk mark results [imgur.com]
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09-01-2023 at 02:27 PM.
09-01-2023 at 02:27 PM.
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4TB pfffft. Where are the 128TB drives Samsung said they were going to release in 2016?
How much ""entertainment"" are you planning on downloading?
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09-01-2023 at 03:08 PM.
09-01-2023 at 03:08 PM.
I am looking to upgrade the spinning hd on my older gaming rig. Just upgraded the card to 3060ti but I see lots of games are recommending SSD now. Would this be sufficient? I don't have a free PCIe slot so it would have to be sata.
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09-01-2023 at 03:12 PM.
09-01-2023 at 03:12 PM.
Quote from lew1 :
I was transferring from the NVMe to this drive with Windows on my gaming PC, to then connect the drive full of media to my rasp pi. It seems fast at writing for the first 1-2GB, but I'm using this 2TB storage SSD for movies and TV shows, and typically moving 50GB+ at a time. All the other tests I see on Amazon are just 1GiB tests.

If you're using this for smaller file writes, I'm sure it's great. And once it's written to, the read speeds are great (for SATA III), but I plan to add to it over it time and I just hate the slow write speeds I've experienced for the minimal savings.

Here's my crystal disk mark results [imgur.com]
I've heard that writing and storing big video files is not the best use of SSD. For my DVR computer I use a regular hard drive to store video files.
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09-01-2023 at 03:29 PM.
09-01-2023 at 03:29 PM.
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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...
Should be fine as tlc and with backups of anything important, large writes are less damaging than small for ssds. If you fill the drive to the brim from empty every day it should last for at least 500 days. Likely by the time you hit tbw it will be easily replaced with a larger drive costing less.

I use freefilesync to mirror certain work directories on a schedule.
but you can use stablebit $29 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFVbuzPLv0o to have a constant parity protected pool or simple mirror with ntfs drives.


Quote from watchmyback :
I am looking to upgrade the spinning hd on my older gaming rig. Just upgraded the card to 3060ti but I see lots of games are recommending SSD now. Would this be sufficient? I don't have a free PCIe slot so it would have to be sata.

It will be fine. Games are all reads.


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I've heard that writing and storing big video files is not the best use of SSD. For my DVR computer I use a regular hard drive to store video files.
Advice is based on ssds wearing out, reality is large writes are better for ssds, small files require block shuffle, so it depends, how long will ~1000TB of writes last you.
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09-01-2023 at 03:40 PM.
09-01-2023 at 03:40 PM.
Quote from lew1 :
I was transferring from the NVMe to this drive with Windows on my gaming PC, to then connect the drive full of media to my rasp pi. It seems fast at writing for the first 1-2GB, but I'm using this 2TB storage SSD for movies and TV shows, and typically moving 50GB+ at a time. All the other tests I see on Amazon are just 1GiB tests.

If you're using this for smaller file writes, I'm sure it's great. And once it's written to, the read speeds are great (for SATA III), but I plan to add to it over it time and I just hate the slow write speeds I've experienced for the minimal savings.

Here's my crystal disk mark results [imgur.com]
I remember it going faster copying things over but I was afk, I have 2 and filled each a decent amount. Large files go faster, if copying photos its going to drop on most ssds.

So to confirm I ran the 32GB sequential test, write speeds are higher 464MB/s, is it being written to on the PI?
https://ibb.co/gynFSWK
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09-01-2023 at 04:32 PM.
09-01-2023 at 04:32 PM.
Quote from booboloo :
I remember it going faster copying things over but I was afk, I have 2 and filled each a decent amount. Large files go faster, if copying photos its going to drop on most ssds.

So to confirm I ran the 32GB sequential test, write speeds are higher 464MB/s, is it being written to on the PI?
https://ibb.co/gynFSWK
Thanks for this, maybe I should RMA instead of returning outright. I was transferring from a 2TB nvme drive I have installed in my gaming rig (I also had this drive installed). No Rasp Pi involved in the file transfer, I just bought the drive to use with my Pi Plex setup after the files were on it.
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Thanks for this, maybe I should RMA instead of returning outright. I was transferring from a 2TB nvme drive I have installed in my gaming rig (I also had this drive installed). No Rasp Pi involved in the file transfer, I just bought the drive to use with my Pi Plex setup after the files were on it.
Run trim and wait for a few hours, maybe it will recover.

Also something is odd with your format? Your drive space doesn't match, is it partitioned?
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09-01-2023 at 06:04 PM.
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Looks like Great Value for a SSD.
https://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Spe...-NS100-2TB

"The Lexar NS100 2TB averaged just 6.2% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This is an excellent result which ranks the Lexar NS100 2TB near the top of the comparison list."
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Quote from booboloo :
Run trim and wait for a few hours, maybe it will recover.

Also something is odd with your format? Your drive space doesn't match, is it partitioned?
I ran a TRIM, but it's the same. Also, no partitions. [imgur.com]
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I ran a TRIM, but it's the same. Also, no partitions. [imgur.com]
Is it the NS100 or NQ100, did you mix up drive letters?

I guess worst case scenario is you got a fake drive some how. The size should match.

1.78GiB is 1.92GB

1.9GiB is 2048GB

Firmware should be SN11035 in crystaldiskinfo, size 2048.4 GB
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09-01-2023 at 07:16 PM.
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Quote from lew1 :
I was transferring from the NVMe to this drive with Windows on my gaming PC, to then connect the drive full of media to my rasp pi. It seems fast at writing for the first 1-2GB, but I'm using this 2TB storage SSD for movies and TV shows, and typically moving 50GB+ at a time. All the other tests I see on Amazon are just 1GiB tests.

If you're using this for smaller file writes, I'm sure it's great. And once it's written to, the read speeds are great (for SATA III), but I plan to add to it over it time and I just hate the slow write speeds I've experienced for the minimal savings.

Here's my crystal disk mark results [imgur.com]
For large file/data sets writing in SSD at once, you always have fast speed at the beginning and experience speeds drop at some point. This is because the high speed cache is filled up without pause.
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09-01-2023 at 07:34 PM.
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Is it the NS100 or NQ100, did you mix up drive letters?
Totally - you figured it out. My mistake. Thank you for your help.
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09-01-2023 at 09:33 PM.
09-01-2023 at 09:33 PM.
It seems it would be good option to replace my adata 2TB ssd which it just wore out in my NVR after 3-year
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