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The cheap SSDs thread

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Anybody see deals on MLC ~500GB drives recently? Cheapest I can find is a PNY CS2211 for like $140 on Amazon. Would prefer order from Amazon for speedy shipping, but awesome deal elsewhere could outweigh.
 
davidthemaster3 said:
My favorite "cheap" SSD is the Mushkin Reactor 1TB. By "cheap" I mean cheapest GB/¢ ...

Currently @ 220$ USD on newegg in the US.
Or for us canadians, 250$ CAD (200$ USD) on newegg's ebay page!

Relevant techreport review : http://techreport.com/review/30109/mushkin-reactor-1tb-ssd-reviewed
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Yes!

Easily the best drive for the price. I just bought my 3rd and have nothing but praise for them. It's liberating to not have to worry about secondary storage and just have everything you use jammed on an SSD. 480GB isn't enough. 1TB still is.
 
nerp said:
Will be interesting to revisit this thread in 6 months and 12 months time.
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My prediction: relatively large price drops on planar TLC drives.

But I wonder if it will be worth it when a smaller MLC drive + HDD is the same price or less than a planar TLC drive? I guess it depends on the form factor and the usage of the computer?
 
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=0D9-0021-00005&ignorebbr=1

Silicon Power Slim S60 2.5" 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) SP120GBSS3S60S25

$36.99 FS

Under $40 for an MLC 120GB. Not too shabby.

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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820313665&ignorebbr=1

Team Group L3 EVO 2.5" 120GB SATA III TLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) T253LE120GTC101

$34.99 FS

Under $35 for a TLC 120GB. Still prefer MLC, but this is compelling for a cheapy customer build for someone that's not running a database server on their box.

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And a couple of MLC drives, I think SMI controller for both, for $59.99 FS @ Newegg

Team Group Ultra L5 2.5" 240GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) T253L5240GMC101
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820313576&ignorebbr=1

Silicon Power Slim S60 2.5" 240GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) SP240GBSS3S60S25
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=0D9-0021-00006&ignorebbr=1
 
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So just for SaG.
Not talking $$$$$ here.......

RAID is also a Question here too.

Since SSDs wear out over time. Would it be better with say a 1 TB platform too have the following:

6 - 120gb SSDs and replace the failing/most used drives as you go.

4 - 250gb SSDs and replace the failing/most used drives as you go.

2 - 480/500gb SSds and replace the failing/most used drives as you go.

1 TB SSD and replace the failing drive as you go.

Lets hear it....... since these drive prices are really dropping and it might make sense to do some different things that you wouldnt do with regular HDs.
 
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1 TB. With so much room for wear leveling it will reduce writes to any one cell, so that cell will take a very very long time to wear out. You'll be buying an 8 TB drive by then.

If I wanted the highest reliability I might go with RAID-1 mirroring, but for anything you care about you need external and offsite backups not RAID.
 
I'm liking this, so far building systems with 120gb SSD and keeping to min solid OS with everything else going on larger HD, so 250 ish drives are a sweet spot to me and what I will be moving to using.

I don't see doing SSD raid, just mirror the drive routinely to protect data. Off site rotating drives beat any kind of raid.
 
Yeah Agreed 250gb is the sweet spot. 60gb is tough to use as a daily PC. 120gb works.

I dont even back up windows or cloud today. Porta hard drives are so cheap or free ;-). I have several and they go in the fire resistant gun safe. Reloading windows with Service packs and updating doesnt take that long especially if you have back up PCs to use.
 
256 GB is ideal these days price wise, at least for Windows 10. Any less and you'll be fighting to free up space and have to move data to other drives often. 480GB gives enough comfort but 1TB just let's you get away with being completely lazy 🙂
 
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