The cheap SSDs thread

[Jimminy]

Small boot drive for Linux anyone?

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.

 

[you2]

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.

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]

$15 shipped from China for a boot drive:

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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[Jimminy]

$15 shipped from China for a boot drive:

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.

 

[manly]

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.

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]

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.

Better that than looking at them online and feeling sad.

 

[manly]

Better that than looking at them online and feeling sad.

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.

 

[manly]

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:

(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:

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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."

 

[you2]

I want 10tb or larger ssd to become mainstream.

 

[igor_kavinski]

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.