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What's the difference between m.2 and u.2 drives
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Not to poke holes in your example because I do agree with your overall all idea. But I just wanted to point out that compressing a video is actually a good example of when you would want to use a...
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If at all possible the best thing to do is backup all your data and do a fresh os install on the new drive. Then restore the data and reinstall apps and programs.
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No rush. I can wait
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I hate this demand and supply crap driving up prices.
if one drops a 4tb for less than $200 now, then you will see other companies follow... then you start seeing companies advertising higher...
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Except demand isn’t exactly the issue with high density nvme, it’s the yield from the silicon for these memory dies that is making them more expensive to manufacturer then lower density nvme drives
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If you have free PCIx4 slot, getting a PCIE adapter for NVME is cheaper and faster than any USB adapter on the market.
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For avg person, the SSD is still the best deal.
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Unfortunately, you should plan for *all* media (magnetic, solid state, optical, and paper) to fail over time.
Magnetic media will slowly demagnetize, electronic components fail (tantalum...
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If they can decode the encoding techniques and figure out how to read the data. :D
Check out the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project:
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They have 100TB SSD for $40,000 if you want “HDD size”.
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wait till november, these will drop to minimum 30% lower. $500, you can buy a new laptop or PS5 that is on the way :)
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Then you have yield issues with high density NAND, most people here don't understand that unlike the smaller packages, a high density NVMe M.2 SSD actually does cost more to make, not less.
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6 years is pretty generous. I would say longer than that.
1. We are almost at a node-shrink limit that can be accomplished using silicon.
2. Demand Dictates Supply pt 1. While capacity...
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Couple of people commented on not storing them for even a year
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Do you need a heatsink to run them at large capacities?
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If it's already in, create a backup with free macrium reflect, pop in the new one, and copy over in reflect. Pretty painless IMO.
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I dont believe it will last anywhere near 1000 years! Writable DVDs were touted as lasting 100 years when they came out. I cannot tell you how many of my burned discs have gone bad in less than 10...
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you young whipper snappers and your youtubes.
When I upgrade from my 268 to an amd 5x86 80mhz as a Jr in high school I had to:
- work all summer to save enough
- find the ad in my paper
- take...
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Blu ray burner with archive discs is probably still the best method for this particular requirement.
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Storage on any flash drive is volatile, and will only last about a year or so without being powered on. So I agree with your first sentence.
Although your last sentence baffles me. This is an m.2...
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No one can predict that.
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You act as if they are just sitting on NAND wafers that they make for next to nothing, and can afford to sell them at any price.
For each model and capacity, they have to pay for the R&D,...
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Honestly, you should get a heatsink for any NVMe drive that doesn't come with one, Unless the drive is completely unobstructed and has good airflow around it.
There are inexpensive m.2 heatsinks...
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BD-Rs will probably last longer, but it's not cheaper or easier to store depending on how much you need to store.
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I am not sure where the 1 year come from. Flash standard is 10 year retention time. And flash didn’t refresh unless you write it. So power them up didn’t mean anything. Read action on a flash cell...
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Extrapolating from current rates fails account for non-marginal improvements in production. Once Chinese fans open up it'll be open season on DRAM prices.
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1TB NVMe/SATA has been hovering around the $100 for a few years now, so I think it's about time for the prices to come down. I think that for Black Friday, we might see 2TB SATA/NVMe around $150.
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Sort-of...
On either end, the cable uses the now mostly-unsupported SATA-Express connectors (different from SATA), but seems it isn't compatible with SATA-Express drives or older motherboards that...
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Would be an interesting PS5 drive pending compatibility.
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I lived that life as well, it was horribly fun. ;-)
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Get the USB M.2 reader/adapter.
I got one to do that and ended up doing another thing entirely.
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Heh, you're a relative newbie. I had the original TRS-80 with 4k RAM and a cassette "drive". Actually managed to do some useful things with it. Eventually upgraded it to a whopping 16k and a single,...
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One day, 4 TBs will be attainable for a more reasonable price. :)
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Agree on more PCIe lanes being needed. We'll see what AM5 brings, as I think it's going to be the next platform to shake up mainstream specs. Though I wouldn't be surprised if they kept it about the...
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Thank you for the explanation
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There are technology difficulties. 32 layer to 64 layers you only add 32. 128 double to 256 is a whole different problem. It is not that easy to double any more. And SLC to MLC is 2X, MLC to TLC...
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There are 2 types of USB m.2 adapters: SATA or NVMe (PCIe). It needs to match the type of SSD to work.
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That's true. Backups should always be done to spinning rust, unfortunately. SSDs do make a good intermediary storage though, especially if some additional processing to data has to be done before...
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How is the speed of this drive compared to ps5 new hard drive? I am already thinking the new ps5 will need an upgrade soon and I need to know the prices
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