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good deal on an SSD hard drive?
#26469431 - 02/04/20 11:00 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Been meaning to get a new hard drive for awhile, have a big HDD that is getting close to full. Hoping to find something with at least 1 TB for a decent price, whatever is the best deal/quality really.
My PC is a dell Inspiron 3650, it has 3 expandable slots on the back but I don't know the specs.
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Re: good deal on an SSD hard drive? [Re: musiclover420]
#26469442 - 02/04/20 11:12 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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SABRENT ROCKET 1TB
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Re: good deal on an SSD hard drive? [Re: musiclover420]
#26469579 - 02/05/20 01:54 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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This looks like a good deal. Im pretty sure its for desktops and not laptops: https://m.ebay.com/itm/SanDisk-SSD-Plus-SATA-III-2-5-1TB-Internal-Solid-State-Drive-SDSSDA-1T00-G26-/293448369124?_mwBanner=1&_rdt=1
An HP 1TB SSD Drive: https://m.ebay.com/itm/HP-S700-2-5-1TB-SATA-III-3D-TLC-Internal-Solid-State-Drive-SSD-6MC15AA-ABC-/293045671996?_mwBanner=1&_rdt=1
It blows my mind that a 1TB SSD drive is only $100. Just a few years ago, this same drive would have cost a lot more. Technology is rapidly accelerating in quality and performance, its flippin' wild.
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Re: good deal on an SSD hard drive? [Re: LogicaL Chaos] 3
#26469659 - 02/05/20 04:53 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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If you want performance and reliability you should spend a little more for Samsung EVO drives. These days they come with a 5 or 10 years warranty depending which model you get.
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Re: good deal on an SSD hard drive? [Re: musiclover420]
#26469718 - 02/05/20 06:20 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Buy a cheap-ish SSD to run software on, then build out a nice NAS.
In the long run you'll be ahead. I have 24tb in my NAS currently, my PC is only 500gb. If you love music as your handle describes, then it's money well spent.
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Re: good deal on an SSD hard drive? [Re: Northerner]
#26470325 - 02/05/20 01:29 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Northerner said: If you want performance and reliability you should spend a little more for Samsung EVO drives. These days they come with a 5 or 10 years warranty depending which model you get.
So far I have been leaning towards a samsung, was eying this one but still going to look around: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Samsung-SSD-860-QVO-1TB-SATA-III-2-5-Internal-Solid-State-Drive-MZ-76Q1T0-new/223499940200?hash=item3409a27168:g:4TUAAOSwbURcyKdc
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Re: good deal on an SSD hard drive? [Re: musiclover420] 1
#26470456 - 02/05/20 02:57 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Crucial MX500 has been my go to.
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Tom’s Hardware said: Crucial matched the EVO's five-year warranty period, but the MX500 has a much higher endurance rating. You can write 700TB to the 2TB MX500 before exhausting the warranty, which is more than twice the 2TB EVO's endurance. The 1TB models follow the same formula, but the lead shortens in the smaller capacities. In either case, Crucial leads across the board.
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Re: good deal on an SSD hard drive? [Re: Robo]
#26470462 - 02/05/20 03:02 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Unless you are running a data center you aren’t wearing out an SSD. I have 7 year old SSD’s that have been on nearly 24/7 for that 7 years and they run without issue. Besides, who’s trying to get 5 years out of an SSD? Modern movies are 50-100gb. Games can be the same. That’s gong to grow from here. Storage is cheap. Buy cheap storage. Upgrade it often. If you want to store large sums, do it on a NAS where you can buy mechanical drives and run them in raid if you need read/write speed.
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Re: good deal on an SSD hard drive? [Re: christopera]
#26470483 - 02/05/20 03:16 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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The Crucial is 100 bucks for the 1TB, that’s pretty standard.
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Re: good deal on an SSD hard drive? [Re: Robo]
#26470766 - 02/05/20 05:28 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Crucial may lead with the M2 and high capacity disks, but Intel and Samsung EVO own the standard sata SSD range.
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Re: good deal on an SSD hard drive? [Re: Northerner] 1
#26470808 - 02/05/20 05:50 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Have been happy with both Samsung evo and crucial in my old MacBook Pro
If you can find a good deal on the Samsung grab it
Get a $10 usb hard drive enclosure and turn your old hard drive into a 1tb external backup drive while you’re at it
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Just avoid the WD crap. Geez those things are sub par.
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Re: good deal on an SSD hard drive? [Re: Northerner]
#26471024 - 02/05/20 08:07 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Not sure atm there were a ton around black friday/cyber monday. Hella sucked that I was broke there were 2700x and 3700x ryzen cores for 200-300 floating around. could've built a beast of a machine if I woulda had 1000 bucks laying around.
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Re: good deal on an SSD hard drive? [Re: Enjoywho]
#26471025 - 02/05/20 08:08 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Theres a reddit community on it lemme look it up real quick.
r/buildapc
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Re: good deal on an SSD hard drive? [Re: Enjoywho]
#26471056 - 02/05/20 08:26 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Should I open up my PC first before buying a new drive just to make sure it will be compatible?
Been researching the Inspiron 3650 but still having trouble finding too much info about the expandable slots, they are definitely 2.5" though.
So in theory all I should need is the SSD and a sata cable correct? Tempted to buy one now but might wait a bit more to make sure it will work.
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Re: good deal on an SSD hard drive? [Re: musiclover420]
#26471062 - 02/05/20 08:30 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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You shouldn’t need the cable unless it’s missing or broken. There’s already one in there.
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mendocino_beano said: You shouldn’t need the cable unless it’s missing or broken. There’s already one in there.
I want to add a second internal hard drive, not replace the current one entirely. I've got a 2TB HDD so it would be pretty spendy to replace it with an SDD, and I need more space anyways.
The samsung SDD I am eying doesn't seem to come with any cables which is why I was wondering.
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Re: good deal on an SSD hard drive? [Re: musiclover420]
#26471086 - 02/05/20 08:45 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Cables are like one or two dollars if you miss one. Normally you get a bunch with a mobo anyway.
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Re: good deal on an SSD hard drive? [Re: musiclover420]
#26471190 - 02/05/20 10:12 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Ah got it
I’d highly recommend installing your OS on and running on the new SSD and using the old 2tb HD for storage, but I’m sure you already are doing that.
I couldn’t believe how much faster my older computer got when I switched to ssd. It’s a 2011 base model MacBook Pro and it is running a very recent version of OS X and works like a brand new computer, it’s fast. It was running like shit before the ssd. I also put 16g of ram in which helps a lot. On a side note, that’s why I keep buying Apple computers. Nothing else holds up that long, in my experience - 9 years old and works better than new.
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Theres even a newer bootable SSD drive called a NAND SSD drive which actually plugs directly into the motherboard! https://m.ebay.com/itm/WD-Blue-3D-NAND-1TB-Internal-SSD-SATA-III-6Gb-s-M-2-2280-Solid-State-Drive-W-/302420757563?_mwBanner=1&_rdt=1
Now thats some next-level booting
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mendocino_beano said: Ah got it
I’d highly recommend installing your OS on and running on the new SSD and using the old 2tb HD for storage, but I’m sure you already are doing that.
I couldn’t believe how much faster my older computer got when I switched to ssd. It’s a 2011 base model MacBook Pro and it is running a very recent version of OS X and works like a brand new computer, it’s fast. It was running like shit before the ssd. I also put 16g of ram in which helps a lot. On a side note, that’s why I keep buying Apple computers. Nothing else holds up that long, in my experience - 9 years old and works better than new.
I actually was not planning on that but might consider it now that you've pointed it out
My PC is only a couple years old and still running pretty smooth overall, but it might be worth it. Was mainly looking forward to the SSD for running games and other software, also maybe video editing.
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Re: good deal on an SSD hard drive? [Re: musiclover420] 1
#26471481 - 02/06/20 05:27 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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100 bucks for 1TB SSD?
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Re: good deal on an SSD hard drive? [Re: Asante]
#26471485 - 02/06/20 05:29 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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I know, its crazy. I remember when a 100GB HDD was $100.
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Re: good deal on an SSD hard drive? [Re: LogicaL Chaos]
#26471488 - 02/06/20 05:33 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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I wish I could justify buying the nvme drives but they have thermal issues, gotta buy a secondary heat sink. Plus with my ambient temps, thats a big nono. I'd rather get a 1tb samsung evo ssd.
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Re: good deal on an SSD hard drive? [Re: Cosmic_Flame]
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Didnt know they overheated. Good to know
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#26471506 - 02/06/20 05:47 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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When I started in Y2K I had a dazzling 30 GB HDD.
Now they have pencil sharpener sized 256GB memory sticks.
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Re: good deal on an SSD hard drive? [Re: Asante] 1
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My first PC had a 32mb hdd, 256kb of memory. Windows 2.1, MS paint was awesome, solitaire too, but everything else ran from Dos Prompt. The gui was basically useless.
When I got a PC that had 1gb of ram I figured I’d never need another pc ever again. These days, my main work station has 32gb or ram. All of my laptops have 16gb of ram. My old MacBook Pro that I gave to my wife has 16gb ram, 500gb ssd, and 1tb hdd that's in the CD bay. Meanwhile I have 24tb of network storage, and it's nearly full, so more disks are in my future. It's crazy how cheap storage is, but it's also crazy how large files have gotten. That in mind, most networks can't handle anything faster than like 300mb/s, even enterprise grade hardware, so if you need storage SSD's are a poor choice. My NAS for example can r/w simultaneously at 100mb/s, but it's hardly ever an issue.
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#26471623 - 02/06/20 07:56 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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LogicaL Chaos said: Theres even a newer bootable SSD drive called a NAND SSD drive which actually plugs directly into the motherboard! https://m.ebay.com/itm/WD-Blue-3D-NAND-1TB-Internal-SSD-SATA-III-6Gb-s-M-2-2280-Solid-State-Drive-W-/302420757563?_mwBanner=1&_rdt=1
Now thats some next-level booting 
That's the M2 type I mentioned earlier where Crucial lead the pack atm.
I've been purchasing IT stuff for the best part of a decade for a large company, if there's one thing I know: Everything I know will be invalid next year.
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Re: good deal on an SSD hard drive? [Re: Northerner]
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LogicaL Chaos said: Theres even a newer bootable SSD drive called a NAND SSD drive which actually plugs directly into the motherboard! https://m.ebay.com/itm/WD-Blue-3D-NAND-1TB-Internal-SSD-SATA-III-6Gb-s-M-2-2280-Solid-State-Drive-W-/302420757563?_mwBanner=1&_rdt=1
Now thats some next-level booting 
That's the M2 type I mentioned earlier where Crucial lead the pack atm.
I've been purchasing IT stuff for the best part of a decade for a large company, if there's one thing I know: Everything I know will be invalid next year. 
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Cosmic_Flame said: I wish I could justify buying the nvme drives but they have thermal issues, gotta buy a secondary heat sink. Plus with my ambient temps, thats a big nono. I'd rather get a 1tb samsung evo ssd.
I live in a hot spot as well, that was my choice for solution at home. At work (where I'm spending other people's money) I put Intel disks in my machine.
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christopera said: My first PC had a 32mb hdd, 256kb of memory. Windows 2.1, MS paint was awesome, solitaire too, but everything else ran from Dos Prompt. The gui was basically useless. .
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Re: good deal on an SSD hard drive? [Re: Asante]
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I'm a bit too young to have ever played with a commodore. I sometimes wish I had be able to get into PC's at the ground level, some 45 years ago now. My career path would probably be a good bit different.
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Re: good deal on an SSD hard drive? [Re: musiclover420]
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mendocino_beano said: Ah got it
I’d highly recommend installing your OS on and running on the new SSD and using the old 2tb HD for storage, but I’m sure you already are doing that.
I couldn’t believe how much faster my older computer got when I switched to ssd. It’s a 2011 base model MacBook Pro and it is running a very recent version of OS X and works like a brand new computer, it’s fast. It was running like shit before the ssd. I also put 16g of ram in which helps a lot. On a side note, that’s why I keep buying Apple computers. Nothing else holds up that long, in my experience - 9 years old and works better than new.
I actually was not planning on that but might consider it now that you've pointed it out
My PC is only a couple years old and still running pretty smooth overall, but it might be worth it. Was mainly looking forward to the SSD for running games and other software, also maybe video editing.
Oh yeah definitely make the SSD the system drive. The performance gain is huge. Your computer will start up in like 1/10th the time and applications and everything will run much faster and smoother.
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