SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB 2.5" SATA III 7mm Internal Solid State Drive SSD 530MB/s
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$123 before discount, 20% off with PREWINTER code. brings it down to $98.40
Turbocharge your PC. Don't be that guy everyone waits for to load BF1 !
I did for my home server PC. Threw Win 10 and the five or six apps I wanted and everything else went on mechanical drives running some software raid solution.
I only buy 240/256GB drives. Plenty enough for my needs. Actually waiting for AUS stock under $90 delivered.
~250gb for a system drive is more than enough for most people.
Can't agree more. 120GB for a system drive is enough for light use.
So tempting…
But I feel I should be investing in new HDD as mine are starting to reach the end of their life span :(
How do you tell when a HDD is maxing out its useful life? I have a number of SATA HDDs from 500GB to 2TB humming along and they are "quiet a number of years old". Their SMARTs are still intact. No noise. Have been wondering about this for a while.
5 years generally is the length of time I'll say I can reliably store data on a HDD.
I had a 2TB one die recently that I think was closer to six. But the SMART didn't indicate anything till a few days before it failed which by then was too late as I was already getting read errors. That was just a standard Seagate drive.
Feel free to keep on using them past 5 years just be aware that they're going to have to fail sooner rather than later.
only ever had one spindle drive die …. was WD green. When I looked at the stats I had exceeded the head park parameters (number of times designed to park heads), it used to be torrent download drive, so heads parked frequently while waiting for torrent buffers to fill for a write, always going into power save and park heads … wrong drive for selected application rather than manufacturing fault, should have used NAS drive eg WD red.
Would this or the Samsung 850 Evo for $113ish be better in the long term?
IMO, no big difference
Pm me and I'll tell you how to get it cheaper
why not make it public, this is ozbargain, not ozsecret… :-)
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I will make a post then hahaha stay tuned!
do people still buy 240gb ssd drives ?
considering the effort to transfer windows 10 and install the drive especially in laptops you’d some some capacity planning to cover future needs.