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SuperTeeJay
Jun 14, 2015

Potato Salad posted:

Danger Zone: Any refurbished SSD (stay away by default, there can be exceptions - ask for a sanity check)
I was lucky enough to be browsing Amazon UK when a warehouse deal on an 850 Evo popped up (£70 instead of £120 because a returned item had a crumpled box), so I nabbed it. The benchmarks are spot on for this model, but are there any other actions I should take to ensure it's not hosed in some way?

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SuperTeeJay
Jun 14, 2015

I have Windows 10 on a 60GB partition on a Samsung 830 256GB. The rest of that drive and all of an 850 512GB are used for games.

I'll be nuking the OS partition for a Coffee Lake build. While I'm at it, would there be any real world benefit to moving the OS partition to the 850? If so, I'm minded to wipe both drives and start over instead of messing about with resizing the partitions.

Edit: It looks like I actually did this when I got the 850 and completely forgot about it. I'll leave this exciting question here for posterity.

SuperTeeJay fucked around with this message at 14:02 on Oct 1, 2017

SuperTeeJay
Jun 14, 2015

For a user who games and uses Chrome a lot, with absolutely no workflow outside of Word, is there a real difference between the cheaper NVME drives and the more expensive models?

I picked up a 512GB 970 Plus as an OS drive about a year ago and I'd like more storage for the massive games out there. The 1TB 970 Plus is almost twice as expensive in the UK as the 1TB WD Blue. I don't mind paying the extra if it will make a real world difference but it's hard to make out from reviews whether the advantages of the more expensive gear extend beyond benchmarking and specialist usage.

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