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Anyone knows why the 850 EVO prices have jump up a lot? Also any decent alternatives? (long life is more important to me than speed.)
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Naffer posted:I have a 240GB PNY 8LR8 Pro that I bought about 4 years go and used relatively lightly. At the time, it had rather positive reviews. About a month or two ago I noticed something seemed off, and after benchmarking it realized that while reads were fine, writes to the SSD had slowed to a trickle. Random and sequential writes of ~ 3MB/s. I backed it up, swapped it and formatted and trimmed it but it's still hosed even empty. Should I chuck it in the bin or does anyone have any idea how to rescue or repurpose it? We actually bought 10x XLR8 to our company and started to experience similar issues.
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Jan 12, 2018 08:02
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Eletriarnation posted:No, no, I think you misunderstand - the "lot of bullshit" is what I'm trying to avoid, I'm looking for a drive that will just plug in and work. Just get modern drive and have multiple boot partitions, one at the drive itself and one at the end of the secondary sata drive. This way once you migrate, it's easy to delete the secondary partition and expand the data partition on the extra disk. Once you learn how, it is pretty painless to create new boot partitions.
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May 9, 2018 07:02
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As the last of the 5x PNY XLR8 we bought in 2014 fails, taking data with it, I would put PNY to "avoid"-list.
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May 18, 2018 15:05
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This is drifting slightly off topic, but has anyone configured windows server 2016 storage spaces with SSD caching? How is the real world performance?
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Jun 20, 2018 12:21
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anothergod posted:I'm making a demo machine to show off my indie game, and I'm looking for a cheap SSD to decrease any kind of boot times I would have in case I ever have to restart. I'm looking at this Kingston A400, and for $30 it seems like the right price for something I'll be using maybe 20 days a year. Let me know if any of you have personal horror stories re: this drive or Kingston SSDs OR hero stories for any other cheap SSD. Thanks much. Well Kingston is known for swapping SSD internals to cheaper/worse ones without changing model name. Also 120GB is getting pretty small by nowadays standards, I would rather get something like 250GB WD Blue instead.
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Oct 5, 2018 23:36
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anothergod posted:Swapping internals sounds super shady. Tbh, I don't really need much more than Windows + 60MB for my indie game, so small sizes isn't exactly a detriment (is it?). I just found this Crucial BX500 which is barely more expensive than the Kingston, and it seems as though Crucial's on the OP recommended list? I used to run 120GB SSD as a dedicated Windows drive, would have to do clean up monthly and barely had any space left. With 250GB you will have a much nicer life with less time spent on managing free space (how cheap is your time?)
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Oct 5, 2018 23:48
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GRINDCORE MEGGIDO posted:It won't boot from nvme, unless you can find or create a modded bios. I've been thinking about this, wouldn't it be possible in windows to create boot partition on secondary disk (e.g. tiny thumb drive) and store the windows partition on the NVMe drive? Has anyone tried this or can come up with any reason why it wouldn't work?
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Feb 21, 2019 12:17
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Talking about failures, the dozen Intel 530s we acquired at my workplace some years ago, are starting to fail one by one. The read/write speed basicly drops to unusable level for no reason.
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Apr 16, 2019 22:30
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endlessmonotony posted:We've got discounts. We had 10x older PNY SSDs at work, I think all of them have failed (slowdown to a crawl in couple years), would not buy to myself.
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Jun 8, 2019 00:22
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Endymion FRS MK1 posted:That being said would you think it'd be good for jamming into an Xbox One? The current generation is swappable right? I've wanted to do that for my daughter since her S is only 500gb Xbox One isn't designed for hdd swap, it's doable though.
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Jun 28, 2019 07:44
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TorakFade posted:This is interesting... How do I recognize which ones have this phison e12 controller? Is that something that is on spec sheets? Never saw much info about controllers in online shops It's usually in the spec sheet or just Google the cheapest nvme drives you find. Sadly there's substantial premium on these drives in Europe.
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Aug 3, 2019 12:55
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peepsalot posted:Welp, I guess I just got lucky on that run. It was going well for many hours, then I stopped the workload and restarted it and the same issue happened again. So back to the original question: should I be looking to return this drive or is there anything else to check at this point? What if you disable XMP?
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Aug 17, 2019 13:47
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peepsalot posted:I tried this briefly, and while I couldn't reproduce the drive errors with XMP off, I don't consider that a viable long term solution. I want the RAM speed that I paid for. I don't have extensive experience with XMP, but I have heard from many that it barely never works stable.
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Aug 17, 2019 23:02
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Verizian posted:Looking to get an nvme SSD for my rig with a Z170-a mobo. Max budget is £150 for 1TB. and I'm looking at the Adata XPG SX8200 Pro vs the CORSAIR MP510 960GB. Just want a quick sanity check that these drives aren't going to try and set my PC on fire or murder puppies before the warranty runs out? MP510 has the Phison E12 controller which many have recommended on the thread before.
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Oct 13, 2019 11:15
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dragon enthusiast posted:I'm just trying to get a 1TB SSD into my PC before the supposed price hike, and that one happened to be cheaper than the normal SATA drives for reasons I haven't figured out yet. The actual NVMe drives can be bought with similar price and offer much better performance. https://www.amazon.com/Silicon-Power-Gen3x4-000MB-SU001TBP34A80M28AB/dp/B07L6GF81L/
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Jan 4, 2020 19:27
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I totally understand the confusion and self-doubt as my first M.2 drive was DOA. Most frustrating thing ever to debug.
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Mar 6, 2020 00:02
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El Grillo posted:Should maybe post this in tech support sub but there doesn't seem to be a general questions thread there and this is too small for its own thread: Do you have the latest firmware? There was the fw bug that old data becomes slow.
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Apr 5, 2020 00:32
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Shaocaholica posted:This machine doesn't support NVMe booting. Can windows bootloader or some other bootloader live on a ACHI drive and then just point to a NVMe? I asked this before, and you can use Clover-EFI to accomplish this, but was told that it's not worth it for some reason.
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Jun 10, 2020 22:52
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Lamquin posted:With my old mechanical drive showing its age and a chkdsk reallocated some sectors, I feel it's time to replace it and perhaps also move my OS from my old SATA SSD to an NVME. I would go for the Kingston unless you're made out of money. The reason why Kingston was put on the poo poo list was because they would swap internals (nand/controller) without changing product name, but pretty much all manufacturers do that now.
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May 14, 2022 13:22
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NotNut posted:What's the best way to back up your files? I was thinking of getting an external hard drive for it, but I'm guessing RAID 1 would be a better long term solution since I wouldn't have to manually copy stuff. But if the backup drive was external I feel like that would be safer somehow, because something could happen to my tower but not the drive. Raid1 is not a backup. Honestly just rent some cloud service with their own backup software and leave it running on the background. Alternatively the USB drive or permanent internal backup drive are good options, I recommend getting some backup software like Macrium to do the heavy lifting with these, instead of manually juggling files.
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Aug 19, 2022 09:03
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Anyone has experience with NVMe drives and AMD Raid? My future PC build plan includes 6x 2TB SN770 SSDs in raid0, with 4 on the motherboard and 2 on a PCIE addon card and I'm trying to figure out if I will run into issues with this.
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Mar 10, 2023 13:57
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Klyith posted:motherboard raid sucks and shouldn't be used on either AMD or intel versus OS/filesystem methods I am thinking about the Asus ProArt X670E motherboard and the Asus Hyper M.2 Adapter or other similar bifurcation adapter. Already checked that I should be able to use 2 NVMes on the second PCIe slot (or 4 in first slot) with the adapter. My main goal is to get all the discs into single volume (12TB minus overhead), and to be able to expand it in the future. I run weekly/daily backups and I'm not really worried about losing data and the Windows will be on a seperate SATA drive. I'm mostly worried that if I will even be able to mix the mobo SSDs and expansion slot SSDs into same array, and if the AMD drivers will cause instability.
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Klyith posted:Expanding in the future is almost certainly a no. Or at least not without getting all data off, recreating the array with more drives, and then putting everything back. Klyith posted:Also the mobo only supports using the Hyper M.2 Adapter with all 4 drives in PCIe slot 1, with the unspoken addendum that slot 2 needs to be empty to do that -- slot 1 and 2 split to 2x8 if you put stuff in both. And slot 3 shares lanes with m.2 #3, so your GPU would be running at x2 speed lmao. So 6 drives is kinda your max. Klyith posted:As I said, you're doing something pretty stupid. If this was for a real purpose, this setup should be on a threadripper or epyc system, because those have plenty of PCIe lanes. Klyith posted:Should be difference between the mobo m.2 slots and the PCIe slots, they're all just PCIe. Drivers are fine.
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Klyith posted:If I really wanted a bigass $800 all-solid setup like this, I would probably choose: Thanks for the suggestion, but the drives are 0$ as I already have them for various reasons, if I were buying stuff new I wouldn't do it at all, or would go for the 4-8TB drives.
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Mar 10, 2023 18:22
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VostokProgram posted:The other reason not to use raid0 - yeah you have backups, but if one drive fails do you really want to sit there and copy all 12 TB of data back to the array?? If you really want no redundancy then it's better to use something like a jbod so you only need to recover one drive's data. I think storage spaces or stablebit drivepool can do that. Some hours over 10Gbit/s ethernet link, it's not business critical data so I can take that downtime. I might try out raid0 just to see what the performance is like at first, then if there's issues will fall back to storage spaces.
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redeyes posted:Yeah its block level, not file level. And DONT USE IT FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. Its loving trash, lacks basic features. So AMD raid is trash, storage spaces is trash. What do we use at Windows without expensive dedicated raid-controller?
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Mar 10, 2023 22:00
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CaptainSarcastic posted:No offense, but why is it important to have one big pool of storage space instead of just having the 2TB drives be their own things? The only compelling reason I can think of is if you somehow have single files in excess of 2TB, if NTFS can even handle files that big. It's mainly what I currently have, but overall it's just easier for me to manage one mass of storage instead of 6 smaller ones, especially when the space starts to get low. Example: I can have 600GB free on one volume, or 100GB free on 6 different volumes, then need to do some moving around to be able to fit that 150GB game.
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I used one of high end C2Q on my server until couple years ago with a Sata SSD, it's not great anymore and kinda lags behind on basic tasks. I guess with NVMe your best bet would be to have a storage controller that can handle all 16 lanes of PCIE and distribute the 4x speeds of newer M2 drive to utilize entire bus.
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The free version of macrium is discontinued though.
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Rexxed posted:This 240GB Intel 530 has been in a VM hypervisor for a long rear end time. I think it had write amplification issues because wow, that is a lot of writes. The only reason I'm looking at it is that the hypervisor dropped it and showed it as inaccessible, so I plugged it into a windows machine to see what's going on. It actually shows up just fine, but I think it's time to replace it anyway. We had couple dozen of those Intel 530s at work at some point, they were one of the worst SSDs we had. So I think you're pretty lucky that it has been working for this long.
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Jun 7, 2023 22:45
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isndl posted:SSDs are for most purposes irrecoverable if they fail. In theory they can enter read-only mode, but that's largely untested in practice and only applies to certain failure states anyways - you will likely retire that SSD long before you run out of writes, but if the controller bricks itself you're just hosed. There is no recovering the data once the metaphorical map to how everything was stored is gone, because the drive is shuffling things around constantly for wear leveling. Most of the SSD failures I have seen have been recoverable. Some went some insanely slow mode, but allowed to clone it, others might've been unrecognizable in Windows, but Linux copied data off happily. Often times HDDs still spin for a long time in "failure mode", and user only notices once it dies completely and is unrecoverable.
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MREBoy posted:So what's a recommendation for a 2TB 2280, with main factor being the price skewed towards the inexpensive (but not total crap) end of the pool ? Building a grandma a new machine (upgrading from an i3 4160 with spinner drive) so a current gen machine with just about any M.2 drive is probably going to blow her mind with the speed difference. Usage profile would be Solitare, email & web browsing with occasional Zooms with the grandkids on the other side of the country. Pretty happy with the WD SN770 drives I got.
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Jul 4, 2023 09:00
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kliras posted:yeah that slot is basically dead to me. hell if i'm going to wrestle my d15 every time i want to manage something there You can buy a bag of M2 screws, with the standoffs.
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Jul 17, 2023 11:04
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Instant Grat posted:Looks like the cheapest replacement right now is the Adata Legend 700. Any reason not to grab one of those? I have seen some youtuber making pc repair shorts and the dead SSD is always Adata.
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Sep 9, 2023 06:27
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Black Griffon posted:I asked about a Kingston a few pages ago and got recommended better alternatives, but none of them were discounted for Black Interval of Time. This (different) Kingston does have a discount, however. For a few more hours. I'd say that more expensive Kingston is okay, cheaper ones I would think twice.
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Nov 26, 2023 20:13
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:How are Inland brand drives? MicroCenter is usually pretty solid on other stuff At least before they were solid, just standard drives with Phison controller.
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Subjunctive posted:Before what? Couple years ago, I haven't been keeping up-to-date.
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What's relatively cheap pcie4 SSD that runs nicely without a heatsink (with decent airflow)?
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