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I've been slowly buying parts to refurb two older HP minis. Picked up a 500gb 310 a few weeks back for the first build and it worked great. Haven't found a real use for the second device so I was putting up buying a second drive. Haven't seen better a better price on a brand that I'm familiar with, so picked grabbed this one.
Anyone correct me if I am wrong, but this one is perfect for notebooks because it runs cool and has Dram,.. I would think it would be preferable over the sn770 deal because, it lacks Dram..
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Anyone correct me if I am wrong, but this one is perfect for notebooks because it runs cool and has Dram,.. I would think it would be preferable over the sn770 deal because, it lacks Dram..
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The Crucial P310 SSD uses QLC (Quad-Level Cell) NAND flash memory, according to Tom's Hardware. It's a budget-friendly drive that offers high speeds for a QLC-based SSD, but it may not be the best choice for workloads requiring heavy sustained writes.
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No, go with the T500 instead, that has Dram..
Thanks for this .. hopefully these links work ...amazon link to the Crucial T500 .. $15 more but some might argue worth the price for the DRAM.. at the risk of starting yet another raging "DRAM isn't necessary" " Yes it is!" war on slickdeals I tend towards DRAM drives to be on the safe side.. and tom's hardware review of the Crucial T500 .. tom's hardware review is technically of the 2 TB drive but maybe the observations overlap to the 1 TB drive to some degree?
Thanks for this .. hopefully these links work ...amazon link to the Crucial T500 .. $15 more but some might argue worth the price for the DRAM.. at the risk of starting yet another raging "DRAM isn't necessary" " Yes it is!" war on slickdeals I tend towards DRAM drives to be on the safe side.. and tom's hardware review of the Crucial T500 .. tom's hardware review is technically of the 2 TB drive but maybe the observations overlap to the 1 TB drive to some degree? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CK39Y...=UTF8&th=1https://www.tomshardware.com/revi...ssd-reviewand here's what tom's hardware had to say about the Crucial P310 that the OP postedhttps://www.tomshardware.com/pc-c...d-review/2Also goes without saying but thanks for posting this OP
I've only encountered one drive without dram that performed just as good and they don't make them anymore sadly. Solidgm had the best ssd IMO because the controller was everything. Because I've seen drives with dram still get cached out and be reduced down to a crawl and that Solidigm drive I've seen when it gets completely full and pegged and it was still doing 1000-1500mbps where as some other dram drives (crucial sk hynix and Samsung) I've seen crawl to a couple hundred. I digress
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Thanks for this .. hopefully these links work ...amazon link to the Crucial T500 .. $15 more but some might argue worth the price for the DRAM.. at the risk of starting yet another raging "DRAM isn't necessary" " Yes it is!" war on slickdeals I tend towards DRAM drives to be on the safe side.. and tom's hardware review of the Crucial T500 .. tom's hardware review is technically of the 2 TB drive but maybe the observations overlap to the 1 TB drive to some degree?
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"Long-term sequential write speed comes in at 330 MB/s" from https://www.servethehom
So sn770 will be better for situations where the drive is closer to full and has lots of writes.
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The Crucial P310 SSD uses QLC (Quad-Level Cell) NAND flash memory, according to Tom's Hardware. It's a budget-friendly drive that offers high speeds for a QLC-based SSD, but it may not be the best choice for workloads requiring heavy sustained writes.
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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CK39Y...=UTF8
https://www.tomshardwar
and here's what tom's hardware had to say about the Crucial P310 that the OP posted
https://www.tomshardwar
Also goes without saying but thanks for posting this OP
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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CK39Y...=UTF8&th=1 [amazon.com]
https://www.tomshardware.com/revi...ssd-review [tomshardware.com]
and here's what tom's hardware had to say about the Crucial P310 that the OP posted
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-c...d-review/2 [tomshardware.com]
Also goes without saying but thanks for posting this OP
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