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I’m strongly considering it for a NAS / virtualization server that’s lightly loaded but needs to somewhat quickly unpack 15 - 30 GB at a time, and while my trusty 1 TB WD Black hard drive has worked since 2009 it’s likely worth getting an SSD to avoid jamming older SSDs (I have an M4 Crucial and Mushkin that are like 8 years old now that spank hard drives) into the tiny case with so little airflow. So with a 240 GB boot and VM SSD and 1 TB scratch disk a 2 TB SSD would work nicely. Gosh, I guess my drives are living longer than ever. Most of the boot storage drives I have in my servers have been running since 2011 or 2010 so I guess I’m due for some upgrades. I got that dumb 1 TB NVMe drive that’s doing nothing but I’m not buying a whole new machine over it either.
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Build a backblaze pod out of those Micron 2TB drives 90TB raw storage for $12,060
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Bob Morales posted:Build a backblaze pod out of those Micron 2TB drives Finally enough storage for pictures of ur mom
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Armacham posted:Finally enough storage for pictures of ur mom https://twitter.com/FOX26Houston/status/996838789451427840
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Bob Morales posted:Build a backblaze pod out of those Micron 2TB drives
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nielsm posted:What the gently caress is going on with those graphs Can I bring this back up? What the gently caress is this?
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dogstile posted:Can I bring this back up?
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dogstile posted:Can I bring this back up? I dunno but they go totally goes against what I learnt in high school for math functions
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dogstile posted:Can I bring this back up? Toyota Supra dyno graphs
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Bob Morales posted:Toyota Supra dyno graphs 1200 HP @ 100000 RPM because somebody put the tach on the turbine and not the crank
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Is there any good way to consolidate a 2TB primary OS drive into a 500GB SSD? I'm already banking on a fresh Windows install but just wondering if there might be a good method to transfer over programs from what is going to become the secondary drive. I'd imagine that copy and pasting the folder from one Program Files into another is going to cause all sorts of issues.
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Tiny Tubesteak Tom posted:Is there any good way to consolidate a 2TB primary OS drive into a 500GB SSD? I'm already banking on a fresh Windows install but just wondering if there might be a good method to transfer over programs from what is going to become the secondary drive. I'd imagine that copy and pasting the folder from one Program Files into another is going to cause all sorts of issues. Just fresh install it
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Tiny Tubesteak Tom posted:Is there any good way to consolidate a 2TB primary OS drive into a 500GB SSD? I'm already banking on a fresh Windows install but just wondering if there might be a good method to transfer over programs from what is going to become the secondary drive. I'd imagine that copy and pasting the folder from one Program Files into another is going to cause all sorts of issues. There are some partition tools that can do it, and I did it myself a while back, but generally gotta agree with Malcom and say just fresh install it. Once youve got your OS on the SSD, you can look over at the old drives program files and such and see what you actually want to reinstall, and copy pover any media you want on the SSD. You can also set Steam to look a the old drive's Steam folder, so you don't have to redownload anything (assuming u game bro)
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Make enough space so your OS fits and use Acronis free version. Easy, it will shrink the partition to fit.
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Cygni posted:There are some partition tools that can do it, and I did it myself a while back, but generally gotta agree with Malcom and say just fresh install it. I already figured my games library would be good because Steam has all those options for multi-drive installations. Since I'm an old fart metaphorically speaking when it comes to this kind of stuff, I went and saved a Belarc Advisor report with all my installed programs and serials so I can check them off by hand as I install them fresh. Plus, I guess that's the best way to divy up which programs are gonna go to the SSD and which can just be installed right back to the mechanical.
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Quick question: I know 850 Evo's are a good reccommendation, but is there any reason why I wouldn't want an 860 if it was cheaper than an 850? I ask because my computer is somewhat aging....H77 chipset with SATA 6gb support. For that matter, does it even deal with M.2 drives?
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Jaxyon posted:Quick question: I know 850 Evo's are a good reccommendation, but is there any reason why I wouldn't want an 860 if it was cheaper than an 850? Your motherboard doesn't have a slot for M.2 drives so that's a thing to keep in mind. If the 860 evo is cheaper than the 850 evo there's really no reason not to get it? They're pretty much the same thing just the 860 Evo has more write endurance or something.
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Jaxyon posted:Quick question: I know 850 Evo's are a good reccommendation, but is there any reason why I wouldn't want an 860 if it was cheaper than an 850? The 860 won't really be any faster (SATA is becoming a bottleneck) but it will have better write endurance. I'd go with the newer drive.
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I think Cryorig just set the bar with regards to insane M.2 cooling, and yeah, I'm aware there's one with a waterblock:
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Dual heatpipe... for your 70W M.2 drive? How much power is that port even allowed to provide?
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BIG HEADLINE posted:I think Cryorig just set the bar with regards to insane M.2 cooling, and yeah, I'm aware there's one with a waterblock: I had some DDR2-1066 from OCZ with tiny little heatpipes on it. It was stupid, I'm not sure if they were actually heatpipes or decoration.
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The additional thermal inertia provided by the heat capacity of the foot of that cooler probably does more good than the additional radiator. There are circumstances in enterprise where you do legitimately need a radiator and the airflow from system fans, but they're more "caching tier of storage array backing your HPC or professional video editors." For a cooler to make any sense, you have to actually need the performance that lies beyond the 7-8 second window of max I/O before throttling that most naked m.2 drives seem to have.
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Eletriarnation posted:Dual heatpipe... for your 70W M.2 drive? How much power is that port even allowed to provide? I think 10W is the max, with most drives using about 5-6W in practice. Certainly not enough power to justify that... thing.
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So, I have a couple of recently retired 256GB 840 Pro drives with fairly low usage. How dumb would it be to run them on RAID0 so I could get a 512GB boot drive that's faster? Am I right in assuming that the big downside here is reduced reliability in the event a drive fails? I would plan on doing nightly backups to a spinning drive.
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Is there some detailed database of SSDs that lists specs? I'm mainly looking for an easy way to determine if a given SSD has DRAM or not, and I usually have to search for that info on a drive-by-drive basis. Often reviews and product listings don't mention DRAM status or list the controller, even if it's a drive that does have DRAM; a good example is the HP S700 Pro which does have DRAM (as opposed to the non-Pro version) but as you can see HP's listing is lacking in details. I'm not looking for SSD recommendations, I'm just trying to find an easy way to determine DRAM status in particular when deals on cheap SSDs show up.
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BeastOfExmoor posted:So, I have a couple of recently retired 256GB 840 Pro drives with fairly low usage. How dumb would it be to run them on RAID0 so I could get a 512GB boot drive that's faster? Am I right in assuming that the big downside here is reduced reliability in the event a drive fails? I would plan on doing nightly backups to a spinning drive. If there ever was an ssd to do RAID0 I''d say the 840 or 850 pro would be the ones to go with. The endurance and reliability on those things is amazing.
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Atomizer posted:Is there some detailed database of SSDs that lists specs? I'm mainly looking for an easy way to determine if a given SSD has DRAM or not, and I usually have to search for that info on a drive-by-drive basis. Often reviews and product listings don't mention DRAM status or list the controller, even if it's a drive that does have DRAM; a good example is the HP S700 Pro which does have DRAM (as opposed to the non-Pro version) but as you can see HP's listing is lacking in details. I'm not looking for SSD recommendations, I'm just trying to find an easy way to determine DRAM status in particular when deals on cheap SSDs show up. You might try checking storagereview.com, either their articles or forums might have this info.
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Is there any way to migrate Windows 10 from a 1TB SSD to a 500GB M.2 SSD? I can't just do a clone because the current drive is larger. I also don't want to migrate everything, just the OS, a few apps, and some code.
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Malloc Voidstar posted:Is there any way to migrate Windows 10 from a 1TB SSD to a 500GB M.2 SSD? I can't just do a clone because the current drive is larger. I also don't want to migrate everything, just the OS, a few apps, and some code. If you clear enough space on the 1TB such that the total contents of the main partition on the drive are smaller, you can then image it while also shrinking the partition with something like Macrium Reflect Free. I don't think there's any way to selectively choose items to image or clone except manually like that. So your options are that or a fresh install and then reinstall programs on the smaller SSD. I moved a laptop to from a 480GB SSD to a 128GB M.2 NVMe drive using the aforementioned method and it worked well.
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Silicon Motion targeting the 970 Pro with a drop-in replacement for their mainstream controller. Looks pretty impressive. https://www.anandtech.com/show/12928/smi-eyes-samsungs-performance-crown-with-sm2262en-controller
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Malloc Voidstar posted:Is there any way to migrate Windows 10 from a 1TB SSD to a 500GB M.2 SSD? I can't just do a clone because the current drive is larger. I also don't want to migrate everything, just the OS, a few apps, and some code. If it's just the OSD, a few apps, and some code then just do a clean image. A reimage does a computer good every now and again, it's comparable in time to a migration accounting for research and troubleshooting, and depending on your apps and code... In any event if you want to migrate than just shrink the partition down to under 500gb and use clonezilla or acronis
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Cat Army 