expired Posted by BabyBubba • Feb 14, 2025
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expired Posted by BabyBubba • Feb 14, 2025
Feb 14, 2025 10:35 AM
240GB MSI Spatium S270 SATA III 2.5" Solid State Drive
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I agree MSI is a more reputable brand. If support were a concern, I could see that being a factor. However, I doubt many people are going to RMA a $16 drive. The majority of the remaining SATA SSDs are going to be one of a handful of designs. There's a high probability that several of those other drives are made by the same company and have the same internals, except for possibly the NAND.
As for this drive, MSI specifies it uses the Phison S11, which to me is a plus. The SMI 2259XT seems to be the most common alternative, and I've had multiple bad experiences with drives using it. MSI does not specify the type of NAND (besides 3D, which they all are), so it's possible it's now QLC. The SSD database (which I wouldn't put too much faith in) shows variants of this drive coming with TLC from either Kioxia or Spectek. Kioxia is fine, but I'd rather avoid Spectek. Spectek is the brand Micron uses for the junk they're too embarrassed to sell under the Micron or Crucial names.
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Someone made a comment about it being hard to find 2.5 form factor SSD drives with DRAM.. I did some checking for my old favorite the crucial MX500 drive and noticed it's no longer sold and shipped directly by say amazon for example you have to go through a third party seller so it looks like there's definitely a shift towards the m2 drives now.. which is annoying for people like me who like having multiple hard drives (one for Windows one for PC gaming and another one for files for example) but only two m2 slots on my (admittedly budget) motherboards
Looks like the Samsung 970 Evo is still sold and shipped directly by amazon for now.
https://www.amazon.com/SAMSUNG-50...74600&th=1
Someone made a comment about it being hard to find 2.5 form factor SSD drives with DRAM.. I did some checking for my old favorite the crucial MX500 drive and noticed it's no longer sold and shipped directly by say amazon for example you have to go through a third party seller so it looks like there's definitely a shift towards the m2 drives now.. ...
I know there was some controversy about the newer editions of the MX500's but I have both older and newer versions that have been working great in our desktop and laptop PC's for years now.
First one I RMAed, the replacement still seems ok. First one failed a year ago. Second one replaced the first and just died this week. There's a small possibility that my mainboard is the cause and not the drives but I had an HDD connected before without an issue so if they were getting too much voltage or something, I'd expect that drive would have been damaged as well. I'm likely replacing it with an 870 EVO but I'm considering just leaving the slot empty since I have a 2TB Hynix NVME drive already, running the OSes.
I should also add, regarding the "controversy," they were as described and authentic.. I reported the specific numbers in one of those older listings here. The controversy was some dummy with a blog who bought a fake on AliE and reviewed that; if you go back to the source of that whole mess, the author owns up to this and admits their mistake. On the same note, there are definitely fake MX500s floating around based on that episode so another reason to avoid that drive through questionable sellers.
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(edit) note that the link you are responding to was for 870 EVO, which is the SATA model we are talking about.. just in case you looked up the wrong model. I'm debating getting that 2TB 870 Evo from BestBuy but it pains me to pay that much for SATA, especially when the drive was below $100 a year ago.
(edit) note that the link you are responding to was for 870 EVO, which is the SATA model we are talking about.. just in case you looked up the wrong model. I'm debating getting that 2TB 870 Evo from BestBuy but it pains me to pay that much for SATA, especially when the drive was below $100 a year ago.
It seemed silly when I thought you were proposing to add a microSD slot to their laptops, but it seems entirely absurd if we're discussing the iPhone lineup lol.
It seemed silly when I thought you were proposing to add a microSD slot to their laptops, but it seems entirely absurd if we're discussing the iPhone lineup lol.
I should also mention that in phones, the speed at which thousands of photos are accessed isn't a big deal and MicroSD is plenty fast enough for this task. The outboard storage is for those photos; the onboard fast storage can handle the OS, hardware, and apps.
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The 2TB NVME is in my iMac. On that computer I'm running MacOS Mojave for older 32bit software, I'm running MacOS Sequioa as it's the most recent OS, I'm running Windows 11, and also running Linux Mint. The partitioning is why it needs to be larger. The second drive was for family photos, MP3s and lossless audio, backups of YouTube videos, and DVD/Blueray rips (I don't have a Plex server).
Is 1TB enough, otherwise? I have a 1TB boot drive on my old Haswell desktop, it's about 70% full but sure, 1TB is enough on that machine. I have 2x2TB NVME drives on my laptop which I'm on currently... the C drive is only using 300GB at the moment so sure, I could get away with 1TB comfortably. My D drive is using about 1TB of data at the moment so, no, a 1TB drive wouldn't be sufficient there; lots of media, movies and games mostly. A few of the games I have on here take up 100GB by themselves.