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I'm waiting for 500GB to go under $75 until I pull the trigger. Right now I'm running a 120+240 in raid and it's very easy to run out :(
raid 1 or 10
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raid 10 needs a min of four disks :)
doubt its raid 1
I'm betting its raid 0@P3aker: omg im derping so hard yes it's raid 0 that's why i am running out, i am considering using them separately again idk anything about drives i was just told running them in raid would be hella faster but i haven't noticed a difference
@Ostrk: the issue with raid 0 and data lose is having one of the drives die on you thus losing the data on both drives because its split.. otherwise this should be fairly fast when reading and writing
haha yeah, raid 1 is meant for mirroring (writing the same data to both drives) and when setting raid 1 up on drives with different capacities it will use the smaller of the two when creating the array, so 120+120 in your case.
@P3aker: I'm not worried about losing data as I do nothing important in life anyway and if I do it's on a USB. I was just told raid would be faster but maybe I don't care enough to see the difference or maybe it's my drives holding it back? they're both budget ssds. Saving money for the upcoming jb hifi xbox one deal in a few days so I will have to hold on the SSD purchase for a while :(
@P3aker: Well actually with SSDs, they are far less likely than a HDD to experience catastrophic failure; instead they die gracefully.
This means that you are unlikely to lose all data because one of the drives died, instead you’d only lose the data stored on the failed sectors but it will still continue to operate in raid0 and the remaining data will be ok
JBOD
Same as me, 2x 256 msata: is on one and some profile on other. Very full. Hanging for new ssd but just biding my time. Winding if Black Friday might be better.
2 quick questions for the tech savy.
My laptop has 1 M.2 slot and 1 sata slot. The sata is being used for a 2TB normal HDD. The M.2 Slot is described as 1x PCIe NVMe M.2 slot (2280, M-key). Do you think this m.2 SSD will fit? I am not sure what PCIe NVMe menas. Thank you.
Is this ssd fine for a boot up drive? I was looking at the Samsung Evo 860 but the m.2 version is way more expensive than this. Is there a better brand with similar price? Intel?
THank you.
A couple of videos for you that helped me.
1) M.2 vs NVME: What's the difference? (9min video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJCHx7mZEKo2) Storage Real-World Performance: NVMe vs. SATA vs. HDD (7min video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4zdft1HDbYThank you for this. Very informative.
M2 will fit as long as it's the right size. Just double check that the M2 SSD you're getting is the 2280 (physical) size.
NVMe in simple consumer terms = faster speeds of data transfer (avg is 450/500mb per sec, NVMe 2000 - 3500mb per sec). This being said, if you're not a power user, money is better saved getting the regular SSD. Boot up times between the two are basically negligible.SSD is perfect for a boot drive. You might want to look into Crucial or Sandisk for slightly cheaper options.
I had a look at the video from Manh and the guy said M.2 and NVMe have 2 different pins. It may or may not work. My laptop is Dell Inspiron 15 5000 Series - 5570. Do you know if this WD Blue SSD will work on my laptop? The WD Blue SSD is M2 2280. My laptop based on my research is using 1x PCIe NVMe M.2 slot (2280, M-key). So I think it may work? Thank you again.
Sorry I didn't see this earlier.
Here is the official comment from Dell for your particular model:
https://www.dell.com/community/Inspiron/Dell-Instiron-5570-M…
It says it does up to 256gb - however I don't see what the limitation is going with sizes beyond that.
I would recommend going with one of the compatible M2 SSDs from Crucial (for your particular laptop): http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/compatible-upgrade-for//inspir…
Not much info from WD, so there's a chance of it not working. Hope that helped!
Had a quick look at the ad and sorry it will not work in the m.2 slot. M.2 can either use the SATA interface (like this drive) or the PCI-E interface which is much faster but incompatible with either other, even though the drive will physically fit in the slot it will not work.
This SSD is perfectly fine as a boot drive, difference between this and the sata evo 860 is probably 100mb/s (480mb/s vs 370mb/s) but you likely won’t notice it and still much faster than your HDD (80mb/s)
Get a pci-e m.2 drive and it will allow you to run speed of potentially 2000mb/s and upwards
I thought so too after watching the video from Manh. But pci-e m2 SSD is alot more expensive than this. Do you have what's a (good and cheap) pci-e m2 SSD? Thank you.
Would there be a particular reason not to buy a SSD now for a PC I don't plan to build for a while?
I assume unused shelf life would be pretty much forever.I realise prices will continue to fall but I'm not good at saving so I'm thinking of buying parts as I go.
If that the case then start with the purchase of PC case, psu, fans, cpu coolers before the motherboard , rams, cpu and ssd. The last four part has prices that are getting cheaper.
Just did a quick comparison for this and Centrecom seems to be cheaper for this even without 20% off? Also checks out for a Samsung 970 EVO 250GB NVMe 1.3 M.2.
Prices in the title are currently the cheapest available.
oh ok I get it. Sorry I looked at the M.2 which is what I'm after.
shopping express any good? or futu online better?
I am not going to buy any SSD as there are so many 'deals':D