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The cheap SSDs thread

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manly said:
Small boot drive for Linux anyone?

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Prime Members: ORICO 128GB SATA SSD 2.5 Inch Internal Solid State Drive Read Speed up to 500MB/s $9.99 + Free Shipping

ORICO Direct US via Amazon [amazon.com] has for Prime members: the 128GB SATA SSD 2.5 Inch Internal Solid State Drive, Read Speed up to 500MB/s, SATA III 6Gbps for Desktop Laptop NAS DIY External Driv
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Thanks. But that is a really huge drive for linux! Linux is so efficient it only needs a quarter if that! 128GB comes close to enough to run winblows.
 
Jimminy said:
Thanks. But that is a really huge drive for linux! Linux is so efficient it only needs a quarter if that! 128GB comes close to enough to run winblows.
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Naw - windows is such a pig these days anything less than 500gb is risking problems a few years down the line 😉
Well 250gb anyways.... and yea i've been running unix since 1994 on my home machine.
 
manly said:
$15 shipped from China for a boot drive:

slickdeals.net

256GB ORICO D10 M.2 2280 PCIe 3.0 NVMe Solid State Drive

ORICO Official Store via Newegg has 256GB ORICO D10 M.2 2280 PCIe 3.0 NVMe Solid State Drive on sale for $14.69. Shipping is free.Note: Estimated delivery times are in mid to late-December.Thanks to C
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Thanks manly ! I ordered one of these. Hope it's decent. I know orico doesn't maunufacture anything, but just slap their name on low end stuff, but we'll see.

Prices of drives have shot up since the latest inflation jump, so at least the cost isn't too bad. I paid this much for a used Sata m.2 drive a month ago, since I needed it for a special application.
 
Jimminy said:
Thanks manly ! I ordered one of these. Hope it's decent. I know orico doesn't maunufacture anything, but just slap their name on low end stuff, but we'll see.

Prices of drives have shot up since the latest inflation jump, so at least the cost isn't too bad. I paid this much for a used Sata m.2 drive a month ago, since I needed it for a special application.
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Prices have improved these past few months, but are still a lot higher than 12 months ago.
Trade warring aside, NAND could be more "reasonable" come Black Friday 2025.
I'm still sitting on 2 nice/large NVMe SSDs from a year ago because they were too cheap at the time to pass up. 🙄
 
igor_kavinski said:
Better that than looking at them online and feeling sad.
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That's what I tell myself! The last SSD was purchased directly from Samsung; it's still sitting in the shipping packaging. I assume they didn't send me something worthless. 🤣

I really should sell off some stuff, but that requires effort. Also, the cut that eBay/PayPal takes is highly demotivating.
 
NVMe prices have trickled downward, but are still higher than late 2023. I noticed that with Prime Day, you could save 20% off of some open box items sold by Amazon Resale. These are customer returns, and you can check the SMART data for power on hours. You should also check authenticity with the OEM utility, and register for the warranty once you're satisfied. Below are the two best PCIe 4.0 SSDs:

WD_BLACK 4TB SN850X for about $206 + tax:

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(Like New) WD_BLACK 4TB SN850X NVMe Internal Gaming SSD Solid State Drive $205.91 + Free Shipping

Amazon Resale [amazon.com] has (Like New) WD_BLACK 4TB SN850X NVMe Internal Gaming SSD Solid State Drive on sale for $257.39 - 20% automatically discounted at checkout = $205.91. Shipping is free.
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Samsung 990 PRO 2TB for $104 + tax:


These are good prices, and you should decide quickly. Someone mentioned the SN850X is out of stock, but I see it as in stock right now.
Personally, I've had good luck with "Like New" items. I try to avoid the lower categories such as "Acceptable" or "Good."
 
Yeah, we really should get 10TB SSD now. I don't care if they have to go penta level NAND flash for that to happen. We simply deserve it. I think for most read intensive workloads, it would be fine with at least a 256GB SLC cache. They could even go one step further and implement RAID 5 or 6 at the chip level so if catastrophic failure does occur in some chip, the SSD dashboard gives a warning and allows to put the SSD into read-only mode for data retrieval rather than risk further damage if it contains critical data.
 
balloonshark said:
I didn't know about the slow down issues. This is what co-pilot says. https://copilot.microsoft.com/chats/3HYcg4c7EjxJVYykzR7o5
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Question - SK hynix Platinum P41 2TB SSD Write speed dropped by half

Only about 4TB written to the SSD so far, when I first got it, the performance was: Now, the write has dropped by about half: the only difference which I think was different is I was on Windows 11 21H1 when I benchmarked it the first time and now I am on the latest 22H2. The read speeds...
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This is the thread I was thinking of
 
Brainonska511 said:

Question - SK hynix Platinum P41 2TB SSD Write speed dropped by half

Only about 4TB written to the SSD so far, when I first got it, the performance was: Now, the write has dropped by about half: the only difference which I think was different is I was on Windows 11 21H1 when I benchmarked it the first time and now I am on the latest 22H2. The read speeds...
forums.anandtech.com forums.anandtech.com
This is the thread I was thinking of
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I skimmed over the first and last full page and it looks like there was a firmware update at the end of march. Nobody has reported if it fixes the issue or not though.
 
balloonshark said:
I skimmed over the first and last full page and it looks like there was a firmware update at the end of march. Nobody has reported if it fixes the issue or not though.
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According to the SD thread, Redditors have reported it's not a full solution. How SK Hynix was very slow to react at all is disqualifying of this model.

And for those that need enough SSD storage for massive pr0n collections, Kioxia has your back. Probably doesn't belong in this cheap SSDs thread though.


tech.yahoo.com

Kioxia unveils 245TB SSD, the world's highest capacity storage device - can store 12,500 4K movies

Kioxia's LC9 SSD family offers capacities of up to 245.76TB, but its performance is far less impressive.
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I am curious what everyone recommends for bulk SATA SSD storage these days. Like for putting in arrays in NAS/fileservers. Though it seems they aren't any cheaper than NVMe drives anymore, a SATA backplane is much cheaper than an NVMe m.2 backplane.
 
Wouldn't go that route unless I knew how much writing is involved, even in keeping a RAID 5 or 6 array functional. It would ideally have to show each SSD's health status and number of write cycles left. I don't know if there are NAS enclosures that allow that.
 
igor_kavinski said:
Wouldn't go that route unless I knew how much writing is involved, even in keeping a RAID 5 or 6 array functional. It would ideally have to show each SSD's health status and number of write cycles left. I don't know if there are NAS enclosures that allow that.
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You can build your own NAS, and then the NAS OS handles that, reporting to an admin page. Also I probably wouldn't use RAID 5 or 6, or even RAIDZ1 or RAIDZ2 (to cut down on writes). I would use multiple mirror vdevs in a pool, using ZFS. I currently have a 4 SSD pool in my NAS, that is 2TB Crucial MX500s, in 2 mirrors.
 
Shmee said:
You can build your own NAS, and then the NAS OS handles that, reporting to an admin page. Also I probably wouldn't use RAID 5 or 6, or even RAIDZ1 or RAIDZ2 (to cut down on writes). I would use multiple mirror vdevs in a pool, using ZFS. I currently have a 4 SSD pool in my NAS, that is 2TB Crucial MX500s, in 2 mirrors.
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10GbE?

I believe SATA SSD is mainly going away, although a few SKUs will continue to be sold for a while. Prosumer NAS are slowly moving to NVMe for performance.
Member Tech Junky likes to recommend U.3, which means you'd have to roll your own NAS. (Yesterday I noticed there are some RAID variants for SSD use cases, e.g. extra parity or mirroring.)


https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/1641wfq/self_build_compact_u2u3_nas
 
manly said:
10GbE?

I believe SATA SSD is mainly going away, although a few SKUs will continue to be sold for a while. Prosumer NAS are slowly moving to NVMe for performance.
Member Tech Junky likes to recommend U.3, which means you'd have to roll your own NAS. (Yesterday I noticed there are some RAID variants for SSD use cases, e.g. extra parity or mirroring.)


https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/1641wfq/self_build_compact_u2u3_nas
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Yeah my desktop and NAS both have 10GbE NICs. Marvell AQction based cards I believe. Makes backups and such must faster.

I did notice newegg and amazon had a few u.2 backplanes for sale in 5.25 inch bay format, and at around $200 and 4 slots that isn't too bad.
 
So the Samsung 990 Pro 2TB is on sale now at many places, such as Newegg and Amazon for $150, now making it cheaper than the WD Black SN850X 2TB. I think I am going to pick one up for the Quakecon computer.

Also if someone needs 2, there is a $10 off discount for buying two of them in a bundle on Newegg. https://www.newegg.com/samsung-2tb-990-pro-nvme-2-0/p/N82E16820147861
 
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