These seem to have taken a tumble despite inflation elsewhere, around £200 for 4 TB.
I have been looking at an external Crucial 4 TB device, looks as if it has
an NVMe in it from its shape. There was a question on Amazon about garbage collection and Crucial responded:
"On a PC, power on with the SSD installed and enter your system's BIOS or UEFI (please refer to your system manufacturerÂ’s documentation on how to access the BIOS). Leave the system in this menu for 6-8 hours, which will power the SSD but not execute any operations, allowing Garbage Collection
to run."
That seems an astonishing long winded procedure.
On 4 Jun 2023 at 10:53:51 BST, ""Jeff Gaines"" <jgnewsid@outlook.com>
wrote:
These seem to have taken a tumble despite inflation elsewhere, around £200 >> for 4 TB.
Watch out - there are various grades of SSD, and the larger cheaper ones
will be the cheaper grades unsurprisingly. For primary use - OS drive
rather than bulk storage - look for ones with a decent cache and not
quad (slowest, most liable for flakiness) or triple (next slowest etc).
Quad is "four bits per cell" which means 16 voltage levels have to be
stored to define those four bits; triple is three bits, 8 voltage levels
etc.
You can generally tell by the price. If a given mfr has two the same
size but one is half the price, that's the shit one.
On 4 Jun 2023 at 16:03:58 BST, Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
On 4 Jun 2023 at 10:53:51 BST, ""Jeff Gaines"" <jgnewsid@outlook.com>
wrote:
These seem to have taken a tumble despite inflation elsewhere, around £200 >>> for 4 TB.
Watch out - there are various grades of SSD, and the larger cheaper ones
will be the cheaper grades unsurprisingly. For primary use - OS drive
rather than bulk storage - look for ones with a decent cache and not
quad (slowest, most liable for flakiness) or triple (next slowest etc).
Quad is "four bits per cell" which means 16 voltage levels have to be
stored to define those four bits; triple is three bits, 8 voltage levels
etc.
You can generally tell by the price. If a given mfr has two the same
size but one is half the price, that's the shit one.
This /looks/ OK?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Crucial-MX500-NAND-Internal-560MB/dp/B09FRRWVWX?th=1
On 4 Jun 2023 at 19:17:59 BST, "RJH" <patchmoney@gmx.com> wrote:
This /looks/ OK?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Crucial-MX500-NAND-Internal-560MB/dp/B09FRRWVWX?th=1
Tom's Hardware like them, they're three-level but reliable anyway. https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/crucial-mx500-ssd-review-nand,5390.html
Old review, but the 4TB appears to be the same tech.
On 4 Jun 2023 at 19:17:59 BST, "RJH" <patchmoney@gmx.com> wrote:
On 4 Jun 2023 at 16:03:58 BST, Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
On 4 Jun 2023 at 10:53:51 BST, ""Jeff Gaines"" <jgnewsid@outlook.com>
wrote:
These seem to have taken a tumble despite inflation elsewhere, around £200
for 4 TB.
Watch out - there are various grades of SSD, and the larger cheaper ones >>> will be the cheaper grades unsurprisingly. For primary use - OS drive
rather than bulk storage - look for ones with a decent cache and not
quad (slowest, most liable for flakiness) or triple (next slowest etc).
Quad is "four bits per cell" which means 16 voltage levels have to be
stored to define those four bits; triple is three bits, 8 voltage levels >>> etc.
You can generally tell by the price. If a given mfr has two the same
size but one is half the price, that's the shit one.
This /looks/ OK?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Crucial-MX500-NAND-Internal-560MB/dp/B09FRRWVWX?th=1
Tom's Hardware like them, they're three-level but reliable anyway.
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/crucial-mx500-ssd-review-nand,5390.html
Old review, but the 4TB appears to be the same tech.
Cheers - Jaimie
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08W1KDM9K/
Obviously not as quick as the SSD in a caddy, but convenient and a bit cheaper
RJH wrote:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08W1KDM9K/
Obviously not as quick as the SSD in a caddy, but convenient and a bit cheaper
Given that is is USB3.2 it could well be faster than a SATA drive in a
caddy, provided your computer(s) have suitable type-C ports ...
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