storage-devices

[lost willow]

hmm

[dusk turtle]

Ram will work but XMP may not stick when you turn it on in the BIOS

[dusk turtle]

Gray slots

[lost willow]

ok

[dusk turtle]

should be fine after that

[lost willow]

ok

I'll see

wait

[rare harness]

Not like moving RAM to different slots is hard.

[lost willow]

do ssd's

lose their data when unplugged?

wait only 1 of my dimms is showing up in BIOS

[sour wadi]

No they don't

Reseat your ram in the same slots then

[lost willow]

I did

ok bothshow

I can't turn on csm for some reason

I can't boot withoout csm

[dusk turtle]

Why do you need CSM?

[lost willow]

the mushkin piolet e I think is a legacy drive

[dusk turtle]

Windows 10 should be installed with CSM off and Legacy off for UEFI rather than MBR

No

Definitely not

[lost willow]

I had to have csm in order to boot

and xmp would crash my system

[dusk turtle]

Probs because your Windows install is MBR instead of UEFI

Which isn't desirable

[lost willow]

ok

[dusk turtle]

So

hmmm

I guess turn on Legacy mode and CSM if you have to

XMP also shouldn't crash things

[lost willow]

i can't tho

[dusk turtle]

WDYM can't

Like it's grayed out?

[lost willow]

yes

[pallid orchid]

Switch off secure boot

Restart

[lost willow]

ok

[pallid orchid]

Bios

Csm on

[lost willow]

wait

how do I switch off secure boot?

[pallid orchid]

Asus board?

[lost willow]

yes

tuf bios

[pallid orchid]

Could you send a pic of the entire boot subscreen

Like all the options under boot?

[lost willow]

ok

[pallid orchid]

Whats under secure boot mode

Like in the drop down

[lost willow]

ok

custom or standard

[pallid orchid]

Gimme 5 mins

Can you tell me whats under os type?

[lost willow]

Windows UEFI

and OTHER OS

[dusk turtle]

Have you actually tried booting without changing all of this?

[lost willow]

yes

[pallid orchid]

Change custom to standard

[lost willow]

wait

ayyyyYYY

I got it to boot

[pallid orchid]

Bruh

[lost willow]

I changed the system OS to Windows UEFI

and enable CSM

[pallid orchid]

Ahh nice

[lost willow]

for legacy drives

so it works now

[dusk turtle]

Windows UEFI? It should have worked without changing any of this

[pallid orchid]

Yep

Then again its windows

[rare harness]

has a suspicion this guy was playing with settings he didn't understand

[pallid orchid]

Same

[minor sun]

who doesn't play with settings you don't understand

[pallid orchid]

I 100% do

[lost willow]

probably

[pallid orchid]

I just remembered what i played around with

So i can set it back

[lost willow]

yeah

[dusk turtle]

Reset to Defaults works great for that XD

[lost willow]

lol

[pallid orchid]

I have a custom memory OC i would be very unhappy about losing because of reset defaults

[dusk turtle]

So don't use it then?

[pallid orchid]

Yeah I dont

Updating bios is always a pain tho

[dusk turtle]

Ok

[minor sun]

save as a profile onto a usb stick

[pallid orchid]

Yep I have that done

Just that updating bios is a pain

[minor sun]

meh

[pallid orchid]

My board also has the option to save 8 profiles

[olive wadi]

[loud estuary]

well I forgot how my raid setup was configured after selling most of my desktop... so I now have five invalidly configured drives with all my data from that computer

[frozen bear]

213 usd for 2x4tb wd black hard drive brand new good deal or no
https://www.newegg.com/black-wd4005fzbx-4tb/p/234-000G-000W6

[frozen bear]

[dusk turtle]

$213? That's says $149 each

[olive wadi]

[spice edge]

how do I clone all the data from my hdd to ssd?

I just built a new rig

[dusk turtle]

Macrium Reflect

[spice edge]

is it all in that or is there anything I need to do first?

[spice edge]

@dusk turtle

[dusk turtle]

Run macrium Reflect, full back up to the new drive,

https://www.macrium.com/cloning-a-disk-using-macrium-reflect-7

[spice edge]

is it ok they are both in my pc?

[dusk turtle]

Yes

[spice edge]

is there a download link on that page?

[spice edge]

is this the right thing?

[weary cliff]

Help, my 2nd ssd isn't showing up

[minor sun]

Go to disk management

what board and what ssd btw?

[weary cliff]

western digital and the z490 msi board

how do i get to disk management

[minor sun]

right click

[weary cliff]

uh

its empty

[minor sun]

the heck

how

what

try to open it again

[weary cliff]

ok

[minor sun]

should look something like this

[weary cliff]

nope

still empty

[minor sun]

aaaaaa

[weary cliff]

well what are the instructions in case it works later or i fix it or something

[minor sun]

go do windows debugging ig, lemme grab guide

General fix for random windows problems

From an admin command prompt or powershell, run:

sfc /scannow

If that doesn't work, try:

dism /online /cleanup-image /checkhealth
dism /online /cleanup-image /scanhealth
dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth

Then, try running sfc again.
Repeat as necessary

[weary cliff]

uh

[quaint quest]

Hi, I was wondering if both of the storages were necessary with this build: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/PLyTkX

[dusk turtle]

250 GB isn't very big and it's speedy for fast boot times. The 2 TB drive is good for games/media storage

The 11700 is unnecessary for sure

Not good with a B560 board

Swap it out with an 11400/11500 to save some money

[quaint quest]

So I should keep the 250GB one or should I toss it?

[quaint quest]

Also I'm not sure how long it's gonna be until i can get a graphics card so i want my PC to able to run games and edit videos decently before i can get one. So wouldn't the 11700 be better with it's iGpu and 8 cores?

[dusk turtle]

No

11500 has same iGPU

Game performance will be virtually identical

Ram speed matters more in this case

CPU cores =/= iGPU cores

[quaint quest]

I checked earlier and I think the 11500 was out of stock

[dusk turtle]

Well, it's in stock but being scalped

11700 just isn't worth it at $369

[quaint quest]

Is this better? https://pcpartpicker.com/list/Hn6Vvf.

[dusk turtle]

269 for the 11500 isn't a good price either, should be right around $200. You can get an 11600 for $269 if you can't wait and have to get it right now.

If you can wait for the 11500 to restock, which doesn't take long, go for it at $219

[quaint quest]

Okay, thank you!

[minor sun]

@dusk turtle more context, they're going for iGP build, and want to do video editting

that's why 11700 was in there

and yea, need to get bigger ssd

[quaint quest]

How much bigger?

[minor sun]

500gb at least

[sour wadi]

250gb drives are a waste to buy, usually you're just paying to have the physical ssd and not for the storage at that point

[torpid adder]

500GB and up

Still probably won't get a 1TB drive personally, too expensive for me but they're priced reasonably

[arctic turret]

Yeah, 500 gigs is the lowest you should get for the money’s worth.

[brisk flax]

quest on 500 gb ssd.. i just learn about them over this last month.. ATM i am using a 1tb Hdd that 2 years old for all my games.. i have only sata plugs should i get a 500gb ssd and move my games to it.. i am all new to the ssd

[dusk turtle]

I'd recommend putting your OPerating system and a few games on the SSD and the rest on the 1TB HDD to take advantage of the speeds

[brisk flax]

ok

ty for answering my questiojn

question*

[dusk turtle]

YW

[torpid adder]

I have a 2TB hard drive in my new to me pc, got it to quiet down with the included drive mounting rubbers

I want to take this thing home with me and combine hardware with my old PC, it has a better CPU and some SSD/hard drive storage as well

Idk when that'll be so I might just buy another 500GB WD Blue 3D

[rigid moss]

How difficult is an M.2 drive to install, doesnt seem that bad? Is it as easy as just putting it into the PCIe port?

[red jay]

It takes 2 minutes

So no

Just could be aids getting the tiny screw started to hold the ssd down if you don’t have a magnetic screw driver

But no

[rigid moss]

Not difficult?

[red jay]

No not difficult

[rigid moss]

okay cool

seems very easy and straightforward

[red jay]

Unscrew cover
Snap ssd in
Screw ssd foen
Screw on cover

[rigid moss]

literally just plug and play and ur good?

Have one but I have another M.2 slot

no cover

[red jay]

Yes

[rigid moss]

even easier then? 🤣

cool thank you

[red jay]

Some boards may need you to put a little booster on the hole ur gonna screw the side of the ssd into

[rigid moss]

my HDD is kinda aids, probably gonna get an m.2 + ssd

the sata connector is barely connected

[red jay]

I am building a pc atm, just got a 1tb ssd for everything

Yea

[rigid moss]

ooo nice 😄

I think I need a bit more space since I am gonna take out the HDD, it is a 2tb

maybe do a 1tb m.2 and 1/2tb ssd

not sure yet

[red jay]

Wat

An ssd is an m.2

[rigid moss]

well I mean a m.2 ssd and a non m.2 ssd

[red jay]

Ah

[rigid moss]

sry lol

[red jay]

Another thing is some ssds may have a thermal pad thingy and the m.2 cover may have one on there aswell

So u need to pick between them

And peel one of the other off

[rigid moss]

ahh, I am looking at one that comes with a heatsink is that what youre referring too?

[red jay]

My p31 didn’t but some do I think

Yes

Heatsink

Lmao

[red jay]

this is a hard drive

[blazing musk]

Looks more like an unreliable program, those results make no sense unless it has background tasks or something

[red jay]

dont know if thats the case since crystaldiskmark is saying the same thing

is that bad for the hard drive

[blazing musk]

I wouldn't say it's "bad" but you probably have some sort of cache on your system skewing results

[red jay]

oh ok

so is that a fake speed?

[blazing musk]

11.2 GB/s read is simply not possible, even for most SSDs

Probably RAM cache which can be good or bad

[red jay]

i see

why can that be bad

[blazing musk]

If the system shuts down before the cache flushes you'll lose data

Like in a power outage

[red jay]

o

dont want that

[blazing musk]

It's usually only whatever data you're working with that gets damaged at least

[red jay]

oh ok then it should be fine since i only use it for games and storing videos then right?

[blazing musk]

I'm sure the drive is fine unless it's showing other weird syptoms

[red jay]

nah i was just checking my drive speeds and i saw that and i was like thats not supposed to happen

[blazing musk]

Actually it looks like you set it to the 1 GB test, maybe try the 8GB or something and see if it changes

[red jay]

haha yeah thats a little different

[blazing musk]

That's much closer to what I'd expect, you probably have an Intel system? Sometimes the default is to have the Rapid Storage on, which is basically a cache like I said.

[red jay]

nah i have ryzen

[blazing musk]

Then the drive itself might have a cache, I'll see if I can find specs

[red jay]

but i think i found the culprit

[blazing musk]

Well yeah that seems right lol
I never played with that before

[red jay]

so i this using my ram to speed up my drives?

[blazing musk]

Yes, up to 1GB can be stored in memory as an accelerated cache

You can adjust more or less memory allocated too from the look of it

[red jay]

i see

so right now its this

if i put more ram does it make it faster, not that i will 🤣

[blazing musk]

Yeah even a PCIe 4.0 drive tops out around 5-6 GB/s, no way those are real speeds

It might make it faster, depending on how much memory you have available when you have everything running though

[red jay]

yeah those speeds are wack

the cool thing that i found out that the samsung magician app lets you do is that it basically lets you overclock sata samsung drives like the 860 evo i have in there

so it makes it run close to m.2 speeds

probably bad for the lifespan tho

[blazing musk]

Only if the controller gets too hot

[red jay]

oh cool, i guess its fine then

[blazing musk]

Shouldn't get too hot unless you do a lot of reads/writes for an extended time

[true heath]

Anyone see LTTs video on SSDs swapping components

[sour wadi]

Has been known for a while for the specific drive they did yeah

[minor sun]

Sx8200 pro being scummy is pretty damn old news
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/adata-xpg-sx8200-pro-controller-change
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/adata-switches-nand-on-sx8200-pro-ssd-performance-impacted

[true heath]

I remember seeing older articles on it. Verification is always important

[minor sun]

Just saying LTT is quite late to the party

[blazing musk]

More voices in the outcry against these practices is not a bad thing

[verbal quail]

guys and gals what the bang for the buck SSD 2.5" 1tb+ I maybe be using it for some games. Like GTAV, RDR2, COD and others

[true heath]

Their first video on it was like 3-4 months ago. 🤷‍♂️

[minor sun]

first article is 8 months ago

it's fairly stale news for most people here

[true heath]

I have a crucial MX500 that I haven’t had any issues with not sure what you’re looking to spend I think it’s around $90 right now

[minor sun]

Right now, WD blue 1tb is 90$ from amazon
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B073SBQMCX

But if you have a m.2 slot, p2 1tb is just 80$
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1576657-REG/

[true heath]

Thought it was interesting that he got his hands on the different variants and tested them. That’s all, I know it’s not news in general

[minor sun]

just saying it's a bit old news. The 8 month old article also had testing from servethehome and another end user.

[verbal quail]

Thanks @minor sun that a good deal. I brought a while back a Kingston 960BG SSD for the same price.

[rustic blaze]

Hello, I'm having some problems with my SSD which is only 237 GB (Boot Drive) while my HDD is 931 GB. I want to know how I can redirect app installations to the HDD so that I don't have to worry about the storage issue on the SSD. I've already gone into windows settings and changed where I want things installed in System Storage settings. I've even gone into the Registry Editor and changed the file ProgramFilePaths to the HDD. Even though I've gone through all of this whenever I install a new app like WinRar it directs it to the AppData folder located in the SSD. I'd like to know if there exist a way to only install software onto the HDD and completely ignore the SSD.

[blazing musk]

A lot of installers are poorly programmed and ignore the default paths and assume they know best and target themselves to C:\Program Files or wherever they like.
You can change your AppData path to the hard drive by hard linking, but I don't really recommend this.
There's not a lot we can do about that except manually change the install location whenever something decides to ignore your paths.

[small steppe]

Guy-John#1997 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[rustic blaze]

I figured as such, you can't really screw around with AppData can you?
When you say "manually change the install location" do you mean right clicking into the properties and changing the location from there or are there other ways to change it?

[blazing musk]

When the program is installing and it asks where should it install to, or sometimes there's an "advanced" option to select install path

[rustic blaze]

Ah alright, there really aren't any other alternatives I guess

[blazing musk]

Messing with AppData is dangerous, it can cause your user profile to fail to load and you have to make a new user

[rustic blaze]

Ultimately the solution best solution would be to get a bigger SSD in order to never have to deal with this right?

[blazing musk]

Ideally yes

I've made do with a 256GB boot drive for a long time but I also have a separate SSD for my games

[rustic blaze]

Transfering the boot drive to the HDD isn't a good idea right?

[blazing musk]

That will make everything on the computer go slower

[rustic blaze]

Ok thanks

I'm new to this stuff so I appreciate the help

Thank you for your time, have a good one.

[blazing musk]

No problem, you too

[tidal flint]

top drives for bulk video/some steam game that dont break the bank? like at least 4 tb. Toshiba X300?

[dusk turtle]

Yes

[minor sun]

WD blue 4tb was like 60$ on a prime day deal tho

[austere saffron]

What's better WD Black or Samsung M.2's?

[dusk turtle]

Neither for the money, Hynix P31 Gold for the $130 price range

[minor sun]

yas

[austere saffron]

Do it perform the same

Or just about

[minor sun]

better

P31 gold outperforms sn750, 970 evo, 970 evo plus, 980, etc, for real world perf

heck, outperforms all of them in seq other than evo plus being a bit better at sustained

[austere saffron]

ite thanks

Dam I have to buy it in less than 2 hours

[minor sun]

?

[austere saffron]

Prime day deal

Got it

Less go

My only storage left is HDD so I need more SSD space. So now I'm chilling

[minor sun]

ah

[lime jasper]

Are there a good 2tb nvme at or less than $200?

[dusk turtle]

No, they're all $210 or more, even the cheap ones.

[lime jasper]

Even if that is the case, what is a good recommendation on the cheaper side?

?

[sour wadi]

Sn550, pilot e

[sour wadi]

https://www.instagram.com/p/CQeSF-XpJ3l/?utm_medium=copy_link this should be standard

[red jay]

Does anyone have an idea of whare I can find an SSD drive reader for 2017-2018 macbook pro?

[late minnow]

Is the wd blue hdd good

[sour wadi]

Do you mean usb to sata?

[sour wadi]

The 64mb one is a decent hdd iirc

[red jay]

I can not seem to find one. The drive does not seem to fit a sata 2 connection

[dusk turtle]

sata 3 backwards compatible

[red jay]

Awesome! not sure why apple made this so difficult

So this should be able to read the 2018 SSD drive?

[dusk turtle]

A drive reader like Sata to USB?

I got this one and it works great

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B06WWLCYC3?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2_dt_b_product_details

[red jay]

awesome, do you know if this worked for a 2018 macbook pro?

[dusk turtle]

Mmmm, conecting a drive to a Macbook you mean? Good question

"Compatible with Windows 98, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10 and Mac OS X.C"

[red jay]

Unfortunatly, macbook pro changed there SSD drives a couple of years ago, it is hard to find a reader

[dusk turtle]

Wait, is it an NVME drive like this?

or like this?

[red jay]

no it actually looks like this

[dusk turtle]

Oh

Interesting!

[red jay]

typical apple

[dusk turtle]

What i posted definitely won't read that lol

[red jay]

I am not sure where to go, stores are charging more to recover the data then it is worth

[dusk turtle]

Yeah, let me do some digging

[red jay]

thank you!

[dusk turtle]

Ok, so after some digging it's a proprietary connector NVME PCI-E drive, of course. 22+34 pins. Bad news, I can't find any adapters that go from that to USB for external use, nor for internal use. 😦

I can find adapters that let you put a normal M.2 NVME drive in your Macbook tho XD

still looking

[red jay]

I assure this would not work though?

[dusk turtle]

At this point, I might recommend contacting Rossman Group. Company in New York that are Mac repair/data recovery experts. https://www.rossmanngroup.com/

[pallid orchid]

The king!

[quasi sorrel]

Does anyone have a scalable NAS solution that's cost effective? (head unit + storage bay)

[steel creek]

i need a 1tb ssd for under 50

[sour wadi]

no

not happening my g

get a hdd or 500gb ssd

for that price

mb if you look on hwswap or ebay

[quaint patio]

980 pro or sn850?

[sour wadi]

For what use case?

[quaint patio]

adobe suite and gaming

[sour wadi]

Okay so if adobe suite you might be doing a lot of consistent writing/reading, 980 pro probs, if it was just gaming i would have said sk hynix p31 because best rand

But I'd get another opinion on that I'm not familiar with the sn850 specs off the top of my head

[dusk turtle]

Still p31.....

[sour wadi]

Really? I thought constant read write 980 pro beats, or is that just non stop server type scenarios?

[quaint patio]

newegg got this p31?

[sour wadi]

It sure do, sk hynix p31 gold

[lucid quest]

Good afternoon

My name is Samuel and I have a question

I plan to purchase a series of ssd units

2 Samsung 980 pro 2tb ssd and 2 2tb Sata ssd on Asus rog Crosshair VIII formula x570 motherboard

And I had the doubt that if I connected the 4 storage devices the PC would not be able to detect them all

Could someone tell me if I would have a problem connecting all the storage units?

[sour wadi]

Swap the sata ports, sometimes adding m.2s disable sata slots

[lucid quest]

The interface of the m.2 that I plan to buy is pcie 4.0, do they still disable the Sata ports?

[sour wadi]

Depends on the board

Also pcie 4 is useless for 99% of people, what use case is it for ?

[lucid quest]

For gaming

[lucid quest]

It's an Asus rog Crosshair VIII x570

[sour wadi]

Get a p31 then it's faster an cheaper and you don't need an x570 Crosshair either btw unless you want to oc using ln2

[lucid quest]

Formila

[lucid quest]

Una pregunta, hablas español

[sour wadi]

It's an English only server and i dont know spanish sorry, but i will try dumb it down a bit :)

[lucid quest]

Ok

What si in2

[sour wadi]

So sk hynix p31 is better and cheaper than 980 pro in most countries

[sour wadi]

Liquid nitrogen

And x570 crosshair is too expensive unless you are doing an over clock with liquid nitrogen

[lucid quest]

Ahhh ok

[lucid quest]

Ok So low-end motherboards for ryzen 500 work for me, right?

[sour wadi]

Yeah you only need to spend 150-200€/$ on a motherboard b550 or x570

[lucid quest]

Thanks, a question, so that there is no bottleneck with the 3090 you need a ryzen 9 5950x

[sour wadi]

Ehh don't really worry about bottlenecks, but if you're just gaming get a Ryzen 9 5900x if you can instead because it's faster in games than Ryzen 9 5950x

[lucid quest]

Thank you

[sour wadi]

Np :)

[heavy hamlet]

im not sure if this is the right place for this but is 15 gigs enough for both warzone and fortnite like with updates and stuff like that?

[blazing musk]

Like 15gb of disk space? No. Not even close to storing warzone, that needs 60gb minimum not including the extra space it needs to download and extract. Fortnite needs 35gb minimum, again not including download space.

[heavy hamlet]

I meant for like with them downloaded and then the 15 gigs for like updates

[minor sun]

We can't predict those game's updates

No one knows how big the next update is

It can be 20gb it can be 20mb

[heavy hamlet]

Yea and for all I know I could like warzone more and then I could delete fortnite but idk I’m very new to warzone so I don’t know

[minor sun]

make the choice when you have to :P

[heavy hamlet]

Yea

[lunar onyx]

https://www.amazon.in/Seagate-Barracuda-240GB-Internal-Solid/dp/B08FJB98F1/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?dchild=1&keywords=ssd&qid=1624631967&s=computers&sr=1-1-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUEzTU1MWVBVQ09WUFRVJmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwNzgwMzc2MTZPMEJRUkExOENaSSZlbmNyeXB0ZWRBZElkPUEwMTAwNDIxMVNRS0lFU0xRR0dFTCZ3aWRnZXROYW1lPXNwX2F0ZiZhY3Rpb249Y2xpY2tSZWRpcmVjdCZkb05vdExvZ0NsaWNrPXRydWU=
is this a good ssd for its price ?

[sour wadi]

Don't think so as no 240gb is ever good value lol, unless you bought in 5 years ago X)

[sour wadi]

I would ask @pallid orchid for recommendations as they are the same region and will know it better

[lunar onyx]

ok thx

[sour wadi]

But some recommendations that are usually good are sn550 if you have an m.2 slot or mx500 for sata drives and save up the extra bit for 500gb drive 240 is quite small and worth the extra 5-10$(or equivalent) more

Np :)

[lunar onyx]

ight i will save up

[sour wadi]

It's usually not too much more, but those drives might be stupidly priced over there, although decent in most regions

[pallid orchid]

Whomst has summoned me

Also yep sn550 is best bang for tye buck in india

Its like 4-5k inr

[sour wadi]

India drives, no pcpp i cannot recommend without in region idk

Hence i summoned you

[pallid orchid]

Definitely not

[minor sun]

Amazon.in

[pallid orchid]

Not great price wise

Local websites give better deals

[minor sun]

Local websites are annoying tho

[lunar onyx]

then what shd i take?

[lunar onyx]

true

[sour wadi]

Rawr from india tho hence why i summoned then 😎

[pallid orchid]

What mobo are you using/ what pc are you upgrading?

[lunar onyx]

im using msi h310m pro vh plus

im actually getting the ssd for bootup drive since my hdd is doing absolutely trash

[pallid orchid]

Lemme look at the board 1 sec

[lunar onyx]

ok

[pallid orchid]

Doesnt seem to have an m.2 slot

[lunar onyx]

na it doesnt

u shd hv asked that at first i knew that already lol

[sour wadi]

Something like an mx500 if it's an okay price then

[sharp folio]

So my dad just got an SSD for his computer because the programs he needs start to slow on the HDD that is currently in it, we want to swap them, HDD for extra stuff and SSD for OS and a few apps, etc. The HDD has Windows it it and we want to out it on the SSD, would just wiping the HDD be the best solution?

[sour wadi]

They just checking jeez XD

[lunar onyx]

i didnt mean to be rude, i just thought he shd hv asked me first. ukwim?

[sour wadi]

You can use marcium reflect to copy the hdd to the ssd iirc

[minor sun]

You could keep the hdd for later if there's only one slot in the laptop, and clean install windows.

[sharp folio]

Don't won't to copy everything, though

[lunar onyx]

also im sry if that was mean

[sharp folio]

It's a desktop

[pallid orchid]

Ok so @lunar onyx you have 2 options as I can see em

https://www.amazon.in/500GB-2-5-inch-Internal-Solid-WDS500G2B0A/dp/B073SBZ8YH/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=sata+ssd+500gb&qid=1624636808&sr=8-3

https://www.amazon.in/Crucial-MX500-500GB-2-5-inch-SSD/dp/B0786QNS9B/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=Crucial+MX500&qid=1624636843&sr=8-2

those 2

[sour wadi]

Some people don't know it's just in general and some people don't no much detail about it lol

[minor sun]

You can probably keep it plugged in once you clean install windows on the SSD, as long as the boot order is correct

[lunar onyx]

ok lemme check em thx for the help

[lunar onyx]

ok true, im sry

[sour wadi]

Use windows media creation tool then and install a clean install on the ssd then

[pallid orchid]

Back to not using PC because TM5!

Bye

[sour wadi]

Is dine lol

[sharp folio]

That's what I was thinking, just wanted to be sure

[sour wadi]

Gl

[sharp folio]

How would you wipe the HD with Windows?

[sour wadi]

Format drive after installing on the ssd

[sharp folio]

Oh

Okay

Thanks

[sour wadi]

Just copy any important info over first lol

Np

[sharp folio]

Yeah, gonna get whatever important files off first

[sour wadi]

👍

[sharp folio]

And the other, "important" files

[pallid orchid]

Oh btw @lunar onyx forgot to mention you might get better deals for the ssd on mdcomputers or primeabgb if you wanna check those

[lunar onyx]

ight i will check em out rn thx

[pallid orchid]

YW

[onyx juniper]

can someone hop on vc and help me with my ssd

pls

[sour wadi]

whats the budget and how much storage?

[onyx juniper]

i alr have it its just that there a problom with it

[sour wadi]

whats the problem

[onyx juniper]

so I got a new ssd today and I wanted to transfer the data,but now I justhave 2 ssds with the same data

and I cant figure out how to erase the data on the slower ssd

[sour wadi]

so you want to wipe the old deive?

[onyx juniper]

ya

[sour wadi]

what are your 2 ssds?

[onyx juniper]

can you hop on vc?

[sour wadi]

not atm

download crystal disk info btw it will help identify which is which

[onyx juniper]

i have an intel m.2(the one i want to wipe) and the new one is samsung 980 evo

[sour wadi]

download crystal disk info and it will say which is which

[onyx juniper]

i knoww which is which tho

the intel one has less storage

[sour wadi]

ohh then wipe the drive with less storage

[onyx juniper]

im trying

[sour wadi]

okay so when you open file explorer, is c drive bigger or smaller

[onyx juniper]

c is samller(the intel one)

[sour wadi]

Go into bios then select the 980 drive as boot

[onyx juniper]

ok i need to restart i wont be able to type, give me a min

[sour wadi]

Np

[onyx juniper]

@sour wadi i made it the 980 evo

???

the c is now the 980 evo

now what to do @sour wadi

[sour wadi]

jeez gimme a sec

[onyx juniper]

ok

[sour wadi]

open up file explorer

right click drive d (old intel drive) then click format

[onyx juniper]

will i still be able to use the intel drive

because then ill have 500 more gb

[sour wadi]

ye

format just wipes it

[onyx juniper]

should i press start or should i change a setting in it

thanks so much it worked @sour wadi

[sour wadi]

np

just go ahead and format should be fine

[onyx juniper]

i did

so now when i max out the storage on the 980 evo the rest of my downloads will go to the intel?

[sour wadi]

ehhh no youll have to make it manually go to the other drive afaik

[onyx juniper]

what is afaik

[sour wadi]

as far as i know

[olive wadi]

980 evo doesnt exist

[minor sun]

It's just called 980

[sour wadi]

I wasn't really paying to mutch attention lol mb they meant 980/pro or something

[olive wadi]

[trim cloak]

980 evo pretty poggy

[rigid moss]

whats the program that can copy data from one drive to another?

got a 6tb hdd and wanna transfer all my data from the 2tb

[sour wadi]

If it's just files and not an os just use file explorer, for os use marcium reflect

Iirc

[rigid moss]

is that the fastest way? LOL seems like that would take quite a bit of time

[sour wadi]

Ye

Hdds are just slow

[rigid moss]

damn that is gonna be a fun process lol

[sour wadi]

Just do it and walk away or do something else lol

[rigid moss]

ye probably the best way XD

[steady talon]

Are the WD Blue HDDs any good?

I know the Toshiba X300 are really good but I’m looking for better budget options for a friend

[pallid orchid]

WD blue in general is a great lineup

Except for that m.2 sata ssd

[oak vapor]

How is a seagate firecuda 520 1tb?

[sour wadi]

If you can get the 64mb cache version instead of 128mb they better

[minor sun]

uh, pretty sure there's only a 128mb+ version

From Toshiba:

[sour wadi]

Meant fo the wd blue

Meant to reply to message just above mr1111

[minor sun]

pretty sure there's no 128mb version then, from WD:

[sour wadi]

Was thinking of 256mb then, anyway the 64mb better right?

[minor sun]

cmr is nice yes

[sour wadi]

Grand then :)

Was right about the nice one anyway lol

[minor sun]

ya

[daring swan]

What are some recommended hard drives? Pretty sure I have a Seagate Barracuda 4TB and I want something faster as my main drive

[dusk turtle]

1 TB SSD

Like a Crucial MX500 or something

[regal kraken]

Can you give up capacity or do you need the 4TB capacity?

[daring swan]

I can give up some capacity, although I need about 2-3 TB

Steam games really do take up a lot of space, my god

[regal kraken]

Can you make do with 2TB?

[daring swan]

Yeah that'll be good

[regal kraken]

Do you know if your motherboard has NVMe slots?

[daring swan]

No, I don't. I'll check

[regal kraken]

What board is it?

[daring swan]

I'm not sure since my computer is a prebuilt

[regal kraken]

What make and model?

[daring swan]

Alienware Aurora R7 basic, made by Dell (I think, they own Alienware)

[regal kraken]

Yes, it appears to have at least one m.2 NVMe.

What's your budget for hard drives?

[daring swan]

$150

[regal kraken]

Egads.

There's no guarantee you can get a faster drive that is at least 2TB in size for that price

[daring swan]

I forgot that I got some extra money today, I can spend $250

[regal kraken]

https://www.newegg.com/pny-xlr8-cs3030-2tb/p/N82E16820177066?Item=N82E16820177066 Shipping might put it just over your budget, but that's the fastest 2TB NVMe drive I can find for $250

[dusk turtle]

SM2262EN controller better 😉 https://www.newegg.com/mushkin-enhanced-pilot-e-2tb/p/N82E16820226902?Description=2TB NVME&cm_re=2TB_NVME-_-20-226-902-_-Product

[regal kraken]

I thought Mushkin lost its luster years ago. Back in 2016 I had some of their RAM chips, but I didn't hear much about them in recent years.

[rigid moss]

If I wanted to buy more sata power cables how would I go about doing that

since you cant mix psu cables around

[dusk turtle]

Your PSU doesn't have enough? Should have 5-6 on a string and 1-2 strings for a total of 10-12 ports?

[rigid moss]

uhh I misplaced the extra cables I think

[dusk turtle]

Ah

[rigid moss]

Lemme see when I open my case lol I can’t remember. Just in case I don’t have the extra whats that next step

Look for my psu and try and find the cable that goes with it or what lol

[dusk turtle]

Yeah, get the model number and find cables for it

Like, Corsair RMx

EVGA BQ

etc

[sharp folio]

So use a USB stick for installing Windows like normal?

[sour wadi]

Yep

[sharp folio]

Okay

How do you wipe a drive with Windows?

[sour wadi]

You can open file explorer, right click the drive and format

[sharp folio]

Oh

Thanks for the help

[sour wadi]

Np

[kind sierra]

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08V7GT6F3?tag=pcpapi-20&linkCode=ogi&th=1&psc=1
What am I looking at exactly here?

[dusk turtle]

DRAMless Samsung SSD

with HMB

[kind sierra]

Interesting

[dusk turtle]

Pretty sure the SN550 RN4K is better

[kind sierra]

Tabbed under budget

[dusk turtle]

But I'd have to check

[verbal snow]

Is there a cheap 2tb hdd that would be decent for storing a few games on thats around 40-60usd?

Trying to find one for a friend and he has a small budget

[dusk turtle]

Barracuda 2tb should be about 50

[dense merlin]

my seagate external drive randomly stopped working for a moment, i scanned it with windows and nothing was wrong, it immediately started working fine

is that a sign its dying?

[blazing musk]

It could be, but it could also be part of the intermittent USB connection issues found on AMD platforms. A beta bios update might be out for your board that fixes that. If you're on Intel that's obviously not the problem.
You can check drive health using crystal disk info. https://crystalmark.info/redirect.php?product=CrystalDiskInfoInstaller

[dense merlin]

I'll check, thanks

[bitter tree]

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/DhsKHx/ (cmr)
https://pcpartpicker.com/product/6MX2FT/ (cmr)

Which should i pick

[sour wadi]

Well if you were going to get the 4tb version you can get the x300 for that price and i would get that

[bitter tree]

For nas

[sour wadi]

Ahh I'm not sure about nas specific drives but don't see why a x300 wouldn't be just as good

[bitter tree]

Yeah

[supple pumice]

hello all.

Need of assistance. I built a PC back in 2015 with two 2.5GB 120Gb ssd internal disk drives. I want to get new 1-2TB SSD's. Any recommendations? I just need to have more capacity for win10 upgrade and updates.

[minor sun]

N300 price recently hasn't been great but n300 is basically the nas varient of x300

[minor sun]

What motherboard do you have?

[rigid moss]

@sour wadi

not too bad

[sour wadi]

yeah its ntb

[true heath]

If you were to add a drive to your pc without a specific use in mind, just for additional overhead. Would you go SSD or HDD? I have a couple drives installed already, the one I see filling up is my 1tb crucial P5 I use for steam. Was looking at adding a crucial mx500 1-2tb, but the WD Black HDD at 4tb is staring at me from the other corner of the room 😂

Hindsight, I already have a HDD installed for media storage. I should just get an additional SSD… I think I made up my mind thinking out loud lol.

[sour wadi]

I mean if you have the budget ssd but if you need more hdd lol

[true heath]

Like a light bulb clicked, why would I buy more hdd I got a seagate 4tb when they were on sale for like $70. If gaming overflow is my main concern currently SSD makes more sense. Sometimes you have to think out loud before your brain makes any sense 😂

If money wasn’t an issue I’d upgrade my P5 to a 2tb nvme but those get pretty expensive

[sour wadi]

ehh i mean if you dont mind waiting a sec for your games i would do hdd

also p5 is spensive

do you not have 2 m.2 slots on the mobo btw?

[true heath]

I have both occupied, wd black sn750 for a boot drive. Try to keep games off that one as I also record to it

Use the 4tb seagate to store the recordings later after clipping and editing what not. At least that’s the plan. I’m still learning

[sour wadi]

fair enough lol

[true heath]

I also like to be organized. I’m not sure if you’ve noticed or not, but Windows OS filing isn’t what I’d call “organized”… 😂

[sour wadi]

Lol

[true heath]

Both of my nvme drives (1tb each) the sn750 and the P5 I only paid around $100 for. Gotta get that sale shopping my man 🤪

[sour wadi]

Ohh nice

[untold grove]

my old home

[rapid dagger]

When using the windows back up feature does it require an empty drive or would any hard drive work

[blazing musk]

It prefers an empty drive but you can use one that isn't

[ashen aurora]

[fast pier]

HEY I NEED HELP PLS

[pallid orchid]

with?

[nimble robin]

He’s getting help in another channel

[pallid orchid]

ik

i asked him the same question there as well

lol

[serene arrow]

Hi, I wanted to know if it was worth buying a wd easystore 14 tb external hard drive. I'm using it to save my video recordings and downloads since I'm running out of storage space.

[pallid orchid]

is the storage helping you out on a day to day basis?

[serene arrow]

I have a external 4tb hard drive, it has some of my recordings and downloads. I don't travel that much but I use it to record gameplay, store downloads and projects. Thank you for responding back

[tidal flint]

oh i have been told that the pilot - e is a great ssd, but others tell me that sn550 is better (both 1tb compacity). i just kinda wanna find out which NVME ssd i should purchse

[sour wadi]

Sn550 better rand yee

[true heath]

SN750 only $10 more on Newegg compared to the sn550

[sour wadi]

Sn750 has worse rand than the sn550

[true heath]

That’s interesting 🤔 the more you know

[true heath]

What benchmark does Toms hardware use? Only curious, one of those “on paper” vs actual use things…

[sour wadi]

Well they're measuring rand performance which is real world performance i assume they use crystal disk mark but I'm not sure

[true heath]

https://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Compare/WD-Blue-SN550-NVMe-PCIe-M2-250GB-vs-WD-Black-SN750-NVMe-PCIe-M2-250GB-2019/m991678vsm716792

There’s so many variables to benchmarks and real world use lol. That’s the first I’ve seen that type of disparity of what’s presumably a lower tier product. That’s pretty awesome though if real world performance is that much better

[sour wadi]

Userbenchmark pulls figures out of their ass btw

[true heath]

Well that was an example sorry. I have heard that before. Just going down the top google links that seems to be the trend though 🤷‍♂️

It’s just one of those things. I have a 750 and I was looking at 550 also and every thing I pulled for reference while shopping reflected the opposite of toms results. I’ve had good WD drives in the past so that’s why they were the two on my radar when I built my pc last winter

[pallid orchid]

Oof

The 550 beats the 750

[true heath]

I’ve been learning a lot over the last 6 months ish. Only recently jumped into the SSD world

[sour wadi]

Tbf the sn750 beats the 550 in theoretical "up to" speeds but up to speeds can technically be 0mb/s

[true heath]

Seems like one of those situations where one product is better on paper where as practical the other is better. At the time it was like a $10 difference also, so I trusted the on paper data. Without real world testing it all seems like a crap shoot if I’m being perfectly honest 😂

Where as my choice in 2.5” SSD was solely based on j2c recommendation crucial mx500 and not any other research and hey that choice turned out for the better 😂😂😂 just can’t win sometimes.

[sour wadi]

Yeah it's a bit weird but sure it's not the end of the world lol

[sour wadi]

Mx500 would be my and most other peoples go to 2.5" ssd yeah it's pretty nice

[true heath]

Funny how that works, put time into researching one product that ends up superior on paper but inferior in practice. Meanwhile just going off the random suggestion of a tech tuber ends up being a good choice 😂 woe is me… all good in the end. My brain does want to know why. Natural curiosity in me. Is it an optimization issue? Is the “faster” drive thermal throttling?

[sour wadi]

I'm not sure but something to do with the controller or nand

[untold grove]

s31 gold big cute

[sour wadi]

Yeah but mx500 more cost friendly

[untold grove]

yeah but also iirc mx500 hasnt been updated since like 2017 and has changed nand and controllers several times

[nimble robin]

I generally don’t recommend a mx500

[minor sun]

it's 96L sm2259 now it seems

instead of the old 64L w sm2258

[untold grove]

yeah

micron ssds cringe anyways imo

literally just spend like $5 more and get samsung since they are the only good ssd maker that cares about sata at all

no one else has released anything sata since like 2018-19

870 evo is pog and uses good nand

[minor sun]

870evo is pog

but p sure there's some micron 128L nand out there somewhere now

wait

there's micron 176L nand now

[untold grove]

yes but it's not going into any consumer sata ssds

the only people doing any sata stuff are the no name dramless garbage drives, samsung's shockingly good sata ssds, and then the weird ppl like team making garbage 16tb consumer sata drives

which are fun but like

[minor sun]

micron 3400 is a proof of concept for now >:P

[untold grove]

ehh

micron is good at making enterprise drives

[nimble robin]

What’s the deal with that Exadrive thing

[untold grove]

density is cool

i considered getting one actually

but its so slow that it negates any real world use case for us

right now sweet spot is samsung 2.5 inch pcie 4 drives

let me find model number

[minor sun]

hm

[untold grove]

we have some 15tb micron drives

MZWLJ15THALA-00007

wait oops those are the samsung part numbers

[minor sun]

oh fun one

[untold grove]

ye we have a lot of 8tb of those drives

lemme find the micron ones

[untold grove]

or not of those drives but a lot of samsung pcie 4

[minor sun]

How do those get connected, directly into a PCIe slot?

[untold grove]

nvme backplane

they're just 2.5 inch drives

[minor sun]

nvme backplane?

[untold grove]

ye

we use the pm983 for the majority of our servers and the performance ones use the pm1735

and the thiccies use the pm1733

[untold grove]

like u know the front of servers

where the drives go in

they connect to a backplane

[minor sun]

Oh it's u.2

[untold grove]

ye

but smaller

[minor sun]

that makes more sense

[untold grove]

like exact same size as a normal 870 evo

its just nvme now

pm983 god tier ssd tho

[minor sun]

nice cache drives?

[untold grove]

heres some pics (not mine)

[minor sun]

mmm

[untold grove]

and bench

[minor sun]

writes seem a bit smol?

[untold grove]

yes but these are never single drive

[minor sun]

ah

[untold grove]

like most of our deploys are 2 drives raid 0

our larger ones are 24 drives raid 10

[minor sun]

cache drives don't really care about drive failures?

[untold grove]

these arent cache drives

but these drives also basically dont fail

lol

[minor sun]

what do you use them for then?

[untold grove]

just os drives

[minor sun]

raid 0 os drives? huh

[untold grove]

the 15tb ones have 21pbw rated indurance

ye if a server goes down we just redeploy

[minor sun]

damn

[untold grove]

if smart gets low we hot migrate

u should get some pm983 for yourself

i found some 1tb ones for $100 a drive

[minor sun]

need u.2 converters tho prob

[untold grove]

yeah

but is worth

paying basically budget nvme pricing for enterprise drive

no brainer

[minor sun]

hmm

[untold grove]

like probs best drive it compares to is mp34 price wise

and that drive is like

using nand they scraped off the factory floor

[minor sun]

mmm

pilot e tho

thats got micron 96L

[untold grove]

pm983 has samsungs best nand

[minor sun]

:p

[untold grove]

its a good drive

im buying 20 or so for my personal servers soon

need 20tb nvme

[minor sun]

20x20tb

well uh

just saw this video pop up
https://youtu.be/29Nh3p6779E

[untold grove]

rip 2m

[minor sun]

hm

[untold grove]

i think the new ssd tech is interesting

looking forward to seeing what actual perf will be like

[minor sun]

mm

[untold grove]

but a lot of our machines are coffee lake still lol

or whatever 8th gen i7 was

we have hundreds of servers running the xeon version of the i7 8700

[true heath]

I’m seeing more like $25-30+ price difference between Samsung evo and mx500 🤷‍♂️

At 1tb

[torpid adder]

Samsong what evo

860 870

[untold grove]

id pay an extra $20 for samsung tbh

[minor sun]

lili sammy shill things

[untold grove]

i mean i wouldnt recommend a sata ssd period

but if ur gonna get one it might as well be good

samsung literally only company that cares at all abt sata

[minor sun]

Older PCs with no m.2 and only sata, laptops without m.2 and only a 2.5in sata bay

[torpid adder]

Don't think my board has any bios updates to support any m.2

[untold grove]

older pcs can get a $5 expansion card

sata basically only good for laptop upgrades

[minor sun]

What if they can't get an expansion card

[untold grove]

as long as they have a pcie x1 slot free they're ballin

[minor sun]

Say they have a sound card, wifi card, and a Ethernet card already

[untold grove]

which basically every oem pc has

if they have a sound card and an ethernet card then they give up one of the two

[minor sun]

:p

[untold grove]

who isnt using onboard ethernet tho

[minor sun]

Dunno tbh

[untold grove]

i mean to be fair

i dont

[torpid adder]

775 board?

[minor sun]

What if they were running sli with sound card and wifi card

[torpid adder]

Gigabit Ethernet has been around for a while

[untold grove]

iirc sandy bridge has native nvme support

so sandy and up

[torpid adder]

Is that 2nd gen core

[untold grove]

yes

[torpid adder]

Ah

[untold grove]

if ur running below that then imo your priority should be upgrading the rest of the system

[torpid adder]

I don't think that's the case

[minor sun]

What if it's a retro gaming pc

[untold grove]

i use cf cards for that

since sata ssds are actually too fast and can crash the pc

[minor sun]

They want the authentic experience

[untold grove]

[torpid adder]

I was looking at gah97md3h and it had a bios update that enabled support for m.2 drives

[minor sun]

Lol

[untold grove]

basically everyone i know draws the line at storage

hotswappable cf cards too good

[minor sun]

Heh

[torpid adder]

It would be nice if my board didn't have PCI slots in the middle

I have a wifi card in the bottom slot and my GPU in the top slot, middle two are pci

[untold grove]

but yeah i feel like saying "just get sata" is takine the easy way out most of the time

a lot more fun to add in nvme

hell thats what my media server is doing rn

i have uhhh

4x10gbit card and nvme expansion card and raid controller and a 1050ti

so im close to using everything lol

[minor sun]

...

[untold grove]

rip to that ssd lol im getting worried

[torpid adder]

Gaming

[untold grove]

wow this drive is a speedster

i didnt think it would be as fast as it is

LMAO THE WRITE

nvm

reads lookin fine tho

[torpid adder]

As long as it can read

[untold grove]

this is a weird bench

[torpid adder]

Literacy rates among ssds are trending up

[minor sun]

Mm

[untold grove]

@minor sun hlep

[minor sun]

Interesting writes

[untold grove]

ikr

[minor sun]

Looks like my drive

[torpid adder]

Damn

[untold grove]

running again

[untold grove]

its some kioxia oem drive i got for free

[torpid adder]

Neat

[untold grove]

idk if this is expected

[torpid adder]

I got an HP aio machine that has a 240gb sandisk

SATA tho

[untold grove]

yea sandisk makes alrite stuff

@minor sun do u know who uses who

like does wd use sandisk nand or does sandisk use wd nand

[minor sun]

Not sure

[untold grove]

im 90% sure wd just uses sandisk stuff or at least bought their engineering team

[torpid adder]

I don't think it's a very impressive drive

[untold grove]

since i have some sandisk accelerators from 2008

[torpid adder]

Yea I believe it's WD that uses SanDisk nand

I was wondering if I should use the drive out of the HP for my OS on the computer I built recently for now and then just put a laptop hard drive in its place but the hp is a pretty slow computer, it should have as little impedance as possible to run okay

[untold grove]

give it a $10 60gb ssd

[torpid adder]

I might tbh

I have some cash money now to do stuff with

I want to get a Quadro 600 or k620 or something like that to put in my grandma's old Phenom II 955 machine

[untold grove]

lmao noo

[torpid adder]

Xd

I found a local listing that has tons of 600s in a box lol

10 bucks each

[blazing musk]

At least they have displayport, that wouldn't be bad for just having something to output video at $10

[torpid adder]

The machine's life from here on out would probably be spent on playing old games

[blazing musk]

Not too old tbh, it supports DX11 natively

[upper quiver]

:bean:

welcome back

[plush willow]

Any suggestions for budget or low priced ssds? Preferably 500gb

[sour wadi]

Sn550 if nvme, mx500 for sata

[untold grove]

[olive wadi]

how many ssd guides do i have to make to get techie

idk i own an ipad mini

that alone should be enough

[plush willow]

If I can find the 970 evo plus for $100 cad, and the sn550 for $75 cad, should I pay the extra 25 for faster speeds? I’m mainly wanting it for faster loading times and transferring of files

Nothing heavy

[untold grove]

infinite

[minor sun]

evo plus isn't really faster than sn550 for most people

[sour wadi]

Sn550

[pure canopy]

anybody super familiar with cloning ssds ?

[vital jay]

use macruim reflect

[vital jay]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H7D1HcfY9o&t=292s

[pure canopy]

i've done a few clones before, but this time has me stumped lol

i'm trying to use acronis because i've used it before, and i'm cloning at m.2 to another m.2, but the process just stops after i choose my destination drive

[vital jay]

try macrium

[pure canopy]

ill give it a shot tonight ! Thanks

[vital jay]

np

which drive should i get? the 980 or the 970 evo plus? do they both have the qlc cache?

[pallid orchid]

P31 gold

[vital jay]

not at staples

i have a 200$ gift card 4 staples

[pallid orchid]

what all is available there

[vital jay]

?

[pallid orchid]

SN850?

[small steppe]

AWESOMEka001#4343 has been warned

Reason: Duplicated text

[vital jay]

wow

https://www.staples.ca/collections/data-storage-126?refinementList[named_tags.storage_media_type_1000072][0]=Internal SSD&page=1&configure[getRankingInfo]=true&configure[userToken]=4796768011925379&configure[clickAnalytics]=true&configure[hitsPerPage]=32&configure[filters]=tags%3A"en_CA" AND collections%3A"data-storage-126"&configure[ruleContexts][0]=logged-out

srry for long link

[pallid orchid]

sata ssd?

[vital jay]

no filter for nvmew

or m.2

[pallid orchid]

m.2 is a form factor... sata m.2 drives exist

[vital jay]

yes but the problem is that there are sata ssds too

[pallid orchid]

also

lol

[vital jay]

but some drives are sata

that are m.2 form factor

[pallid orchid]

do you not see the pcie box

lmao

[vital jay]

but some drives go away

[pallid orchid]

nvme isnt a form factor

[vital jay]

some are sata m.2

[pallid orchid]

m.2 is a form factor

[vital jay]

oh

oops

[pallid orchid]

do you want an nvme drive or a sata drive

[vital jay]

nvme

[untold grove]

and nvme 2.5 inch too

[vital jay]

BEANS

[pallid orchid]

I wouldnt really buy any one of the drives on staples

[vital jay]

bottom line what should i get 970 evo plus or 980

[pallid orchid]

way too over priced

[vital jay]

https://www.newegg.ca/samsung-970-evo-plus-500gb/p/N82E16820147742?item=N82E16820147742&nm_mc=knc-googleadwordsca&cm_mmc=knc-googleadwordsca-_-solid state disk-_-samsung-_-20147742&source=region

same price on newegg as on staples...

[untold grove]

have people here stopped crushing on the mp34

[pallid orchid]

The evo plus is a better drive

[vital jay]

ok

thx

[vital jay]

mp34?

[pallid orchid]

ehhhh its an OK drive

[untold grove]

has decently fat tbw for a consumer drive

[pallid orchid]

p31 gold best

[vital jay]

does the efvo plus have a cache?

[pallid orchid]

it does have dram

[vital jay]

ok

so that mekes it faster?

[pallid orchid]

but cache isnt indicative of speed tbh

the sn550 is dramless

[vital jay]

just nice to have

[pallid orchid]

still outperforms many other drives

[vital jay]

thank you for you help

[untold grove]

technically if u like to write the mp34 better

[sour wadi]

Ohh really? That's seq tho not rand right?

[untold grove]

no its just endurance

doesnt matter how quick the drive is if it dies 3x faster

[sour wadi]

The mp34 has 3x endurance than p31?

Or was that just an example lol

[untold grove]

close to it

p31 gold 750tbw and mp34 1.7pbw

[sour wadi]

Interesting

[minor sun]

Didn't you used to say that they fudged the number and the mp34 would barely last that long?

:P

[untold grove]

yes it's 100% that the drive will die before then

but it's rated to that

so you can just get it swapped

[minor sun]

lol

[untold grove]

ez zfs write cache

[slow marsh]

Does allocation matter on exfat, or does having the wrong allocation break anything?

Looking to store 30gb files on a drive, should I set allocation size to 32kb or leave it at default?

The correct allocation size makes transferring quicker, right?

[untold grove]

just leave it

not rly a big enough deal to mess with

[blissful sierra]

555 bad sectors....cause for concern or no

[minor sun]

um, looks like the drive is nearly completely dead?

[blissful sierra]

Perhaps, how accurate is hdd sentinel anyway with predicting life spans

[minor sun]

Predicting life span is pretty wacky, but they won't lie about smart data

[blissful sierra]

reallocated sector count is 555 and and current pending sector count is 1038

[untold grove]

very

[minor sun]

dunno when it says like 2000 days

[untold grove]

when does it say that

[minor sun]

my drive

[untold grove]

ur drive has brain damage

im p sure ur smart is just corrupted

what does smartctl say

[minor sun]

Dunno, uninstalled hd sentinel because open on startup is stoopid

[flint temple]

So been getting disk errors on my old OCZ SSD. Just got a WD SN550 that i got in today. Was using the cloning software (the OCZ is my C: drive) and it's stuck at disk cloning process " Estimated Time left: Less than 1 minute"

Been at this spot for like 20 minutes and i'm suspecting it's because of ya know, the reason why i'm replacing the drive. Disk error. What to do?

[untold grove]

Wow ocz

That's a name I haven't heard in a long time

[dense merlin]

ive got a 2tb external drive thats starting to have issues so im looking to buy an internal hdd 2tb, any reccomendations? was thinking seagate barracuda

[quartz dagger]

that is a good hdd

[dense merlin]

cool thanks

[torpid adder]

I'm personally thinking a WD Blue hard drive would be a nice option

Not looking to buy any hard drives for now though, I got a 2TB HGST out of an eBay computer and a 1TB barracuda from my own pc

[untold grove]

dont lol

and 2tb is kinda not best deal rn

if you can, get a 4tb hdd

can get toshiba x300 which is great perf and reliability

with bonus of 4tb drives being more resilient most of the time