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More SD than SSD, but we don't have a removable media thread. My 3DS's SD card isn't recognized by it, nor my laptop's integrated reader, nor my external reader. It was a microcenter special and thus cheap as hell, but its only like 3 months old. The contacts are a little worn but they don't look dead to me and I gave it an iso and q-tip rubdown, nor have I ever seen an edge contact go completely. Before I write it off entirely, is there anything to try to see if I can recover it?
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There is a 3DS thread. Also, no. There's literally nothing left to do to get that thing back to "working". Probably some tricks if you really want to copy off the data, but it's not staying alive long.
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Klyith posted:If you want a bigger drive & to replace the HDD, good 1tb sata drives are the WD Blue 3d or crucial MX500. Any reason to go with one over the other?
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Jun 27, 2020 04:46
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Price? The crucial is what we use at work so it cant be any good
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Jun 27, 2020 06:04
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I've used both, they are both great for home use and you really won't be able to tell any difference between the two. Both are SATA, both have DRAM, both have solid controller firmwares (WD uses a Marvell controller and the Crucial uses the ubiquitous SMI), and both use established NAND. If you need a home use SATA SSD, they are the ones you should be buying. I'm slightly partial to the Crucial, but wouldn't pay more than a few dollars more for it.
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Right now it looks like the few PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSDs out there really aren't worth the markup and basically just score better on some synthetic benchmarks. Is there an expectation that at some point PCIe 4.0 drives will have a real-world speed advantage over 3.0 as the technology matures and better controllers are developed? Or is it likely to just be jerking off for the foreseeable future?
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For the foreseeable future it's 75% jerk-off material for home users. There's real applications in datacenters and whatnot, but it's not gonna do all that much to help you load Word appreciably faster. The 25% where it might actually matter is next-gen games. With the XBox targeting a ~5.5 Gbps drive and the PS5 being able to do some operations as fast as 9 GBps, having a PCIe 4.0 SSD that can hit >5 Gbps may provide some advantage over current ~3 Gbps drives. But that's entirely speculative right now.
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Rinkles posted:Any reason to go with one over the other? Anandtech said: quote:The Western Digital WD Blue 3D/SanDisk Ultra 3D is almost as fast as the MX500 and almost as cheap, so it's a good product to keep an eye on
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I have a similar question to the points being raised in the couple of posts above this one... I've been running 2x WD Reds in RAID mirror for what seems like a long time now. They're in my main server, running ZoL (ZFS on Linux) and I distinctly remember buying the most recent one when I first moved into the flat I lived in before the house I just moved into. So that was two house-moves ago which would make the youngest one about 5 years old. So I have a mirror pair of NAS drives (only 1TB drives. I dunno if you could actually call 1TB a NAS drive these days). Neither of them have any obvious SMART errors and they seem to e healthy enough, in a server that's running 24/7. Recently I've been hovering around the 900GB mark on the mirror and I've been dying for a respectable brand of 2TB 2.5" SATA SSD to come down in price enough, so that I can go fully SSD and forget about spinning rust forever. I'm talking about using a pair of Crucial MX500, ADATA SU800 or WD Blue like the ones mentioned above. That would double my storage and, by the time I ever have to think about putting in a new array, we'd be looking at 4TB SSD's for £100 or whatever. If my oldest WD Red is about 6/7 years old, I don't see why I can't make a pair of quality SSD's last about 10 years as storage devices. (a pair of Samsung would be equally as good, but not when we know around these parts that you can get something that's 98% as good as a Samsung for 75% of the price) Yesterday I was browsing eBay and saw an ad for the 2TB WD Blue for £180 and I had an eBay coupon for 5% off that was due to expire yesterday. That would make it £171. I know this is still not in bargain territory, but we're still talking about something I expect to last me close to a decade and I still don't know what coronavirus is going to do to the market over the next year. Readers, if you've made it this far, you will understand that I was getting excited about ditching spinning rust at this point. I looked at the sellers feedback and it looks fine. He's even got a few more 2TB WD Blue SSD's in his history. I then went back to his advert and there was not just one, but TWO! There were TWO drives still on sale, out of a batch of ten! At this point I feel that the gods of fuckybumbooboo had aligned and were nodding at me sagely. while encircling me from above. I bought the 2 drives for £342 and if I'll give them a good check to see if they're legit before RAID'ing them up. Like I say, seems like a genuine seller though. I've had a snooze since then and when I woke up an hour ago I started thinking about doing some server maintenance with my new drives this weekend and started feeling quite giddy with anticipation. Then a thought popped into my head: why don't I just look online for a 3rd drive, even if I have to pay more like £200 for it, and put all 3 drives in a RAIDZ? That would give me a capacity of roughly 3.5TB instead of the 2TB another mirror would give me? So I've been up in the middle of the night, looking for another WD Blue SATA SSD for around full price and I've seen a 2TB MX500 instead, which is one of the drives I'd originally considered. ---- If there anything reckless about mixing 'n matching 2 WD Blue 2.5" SATA 2TB drives with a single 2TB MX500 in RAIDZ and expecting to get normal wear rates and typical failure times? I'm thinking "no, it should be OK, because all of the high-end consumer drives (860Evo, MX500, SU800, WD Blue) are roughly the same performance. But then I am aware that there are gonna be a helluva lot of transactions occuring over a 10-year period, so maybe it's not such a good idea. apropos man fucked around with this message at 03:22 on Jun 30, 2020 |
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Jun 30, 2020 03:03
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apropos man posted:If there anything reckless about mixing 'n matching 2 WD Blue 2.5" SATA 2TB drives with a single 2TB MX500 in RAIDZ and expecting to get normal wear rates and typical failure times? TLC consumer SSDs have far more write endurance than you are likely to use up. If I'm understanding RaidZ correctly, you should have about the same write wear across all drives. And if ZFS does regular maintenance checking to make sure data is good, that should be almost all reads. Data read has negligible effect on lifespan. WD Blues and MX500s are extremely similar in performance so mixing and matching should be fine. They might be a tiny bit different in actual drive space, but software raid is good for that.
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I'm glad you've confirmed my suspicions. I think buying an extra drive and having 3.5TB of SSD with a one drive redundancy will serve me well for years. I will also be keeping snapshots and doing scrubs and backups, of course. ZFS seems to automatically create a fixed slice of block storage when you run a command to create a three-way RAIDZ. Here's what it did when I created a RAIDZ on some 250GB Samsung 850Evo's the other week: code:code:I wonder if the fact that I'm gonna probably go with the MX500 I saw last night and I will have three very similar performing drives in the array mackes a difference? I'm gonna do that anyway. It seems like the right thing to do, to prevent IO waits etc. apropos man fucked around with this message at 07:49 on Jun 30, 2020 |
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Jun 30, 2020 07:36
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How are the Samsung QVO drives? Here's their 1TB on sale for $100 via Amazon: https://www.bradsdeals.com/p/454443?c_id=5075&u_id=67424549&d=070120
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TITTIEKISSER69 posted:How are the Samsung QVO drives? Here's their 1TB on sale for $100 via Amazon: https://www.bradsdeals.com/p/454443?c_id=5075&u_id=67424549&d=070120 You can get 1TB TLC drives for $100 on sales. The adata SU800 was $99 at newegg a week ago, WD blue and MX500s are frequently just a hair over $100. In general, there is zero reason to buy a QVO when it's not sold for any sort of discount over TLC drives. VVVV edit: yeah all undelete / file recovery software has been somewhere between dicey to nearly unusable with SSDs since nearly the beginning. Even back before TRIM, the garbage collection meant that deleted data had a much shorter half-life than HDDs. Klyith fucked around with this message at 20:00 on Jul 1, 2020 |
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Another weird moment brought to you by 2020: Microsoft essentially updates and makes available a new Undelete utility but in a true monkey paw wish fashion the utility is utterly useless with modern SSDs because of how they handle data deletion.quote:After some more frustrated digging, it dawned on us that our VM's C drive was stored on a ZFS pool which was itself living on a set of SSDs—and that perhaps the TRIM functionality of those disks was shredding our data faster than we could recover it. In order to test this hypothesis, we created a new backing file on a second, rust-based pool, fed it to our VM as a separate X drive, and tried again.  On the magnetic side of things they also found SMR disks can mess with the process by making it take unusually long amounts of time to recover files versus CMR drives.
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Fabulousity posted:On the magnetic side of things they also found SMR disks can mess with the process by making it take unusually long amounts of time to recover files versus CMR drives. And that's even before you're trying to undelete something!
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TITTIEKISSER69 posted:How are the Samsung QVO drives? Here's their 1TB on sale for $100 via Amazon: https://www.bradsdeals.com/p/454443?c_id=5075&u_id=67424549&d=070120 Forget $100, its godawful even at $80. QVO is an idiot tax through and through. In Anandtech's own words: "The 1TB QVOs (both old and new) are prone to write latencies that are worse than the 5400RPM hard drive." https://www.anandtech.com/show/15887/the-samsung-870-qvo-1tb-4tb-ssd-review-qlc-refreshed/3 Palladium fucked around with this message at 04:49 on Jul 2, 2020 |
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Jul 2, 2020 04:47
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Palladium posted:In Anandtech's own words: "The 1TB QVOs (both old and new) are prone to write latencies that are worse than the 5400RPM hard drive." That's very much a worst case. Running through the SLC buffer and then still having sustained random write is not a scenario most users, even enthusiasts, will encounter frequently. Or at all. I don't disagree that QLC is generally worth avoiding, but mostly that's just due to the price difference being so negligible. If 2TB QLC drives were being sold for $165 -- which would be scaled to the 4/3rds QLC advantage -- then the possible downsides would be worth living with. At that point you have 2TB and can keep a nice healthy SLC buffer with some free space. For ten bucks discount? Nah.
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Seems that QLC drives are in the awkward middle ground between faster, slightly more expensive TLC drives and slower but cheaper HDDs. I guess if you really have an aversion to spinning rust why not... But unless those drives are heavily discounted they are not worth it.
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Chikimiki posted:Seems that QLC drives are in the awkward middle ground between faster, slightly more expensive TLC drives and slower but cheaper HDDs. Read the whole article rather than the cherry-picked sentence that Palladium quoted. quote:So it should come as no surprise that the strengths and weaknesses of the 870 QVO fall in different areas that are typical for entry-level drives. The most acute performance problems occur when the drive is asked to write more data than can fit in its SLC cache, and then the abysmal write performance of QLC NAND is laid bare. By contrast, many entry-level DRAMless SSDs that use TLC NAND have decent sustained write performance, and most tend to suffer worst on random IO workloads. QLC drives are not at all some half-step to HDDs. First, all of the downsides of QLC are on write performance. Desktop users care about read performance for 99% of their use. As long as you're reading, QLC drives are the same as TLC. Second, as long as your data fits in the SLC cache the write performance is excellent. How often do you write 50-100 GB at a time? And installing steam games doesn't count: anything downloaded from the internet is slower enough that even the QLC can keep up. For me that's not never, but it's pretty rare. However, the potential downsides do exist and I'd personally prefer a QLC drive as a secondary drive, for game installs and such. In that type of job they're as good as any other SSD. (And I don't want to pay Samsung prices for it. Crucial's BX500 is now QLC on 1 & 2TB sizes, and is appropriately cheap.)
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The problem for QLC is quality TLC+dram drives with neither trade off exist in the same price range. For example, at the all important 1TB size, a bottom of the barrel dramless TLC drive is $90, an 860 QVO is $110, and a WD Blue (TLC+dram) is $115. Unless you are really penny pinching, I would get the Blue and never think about it again. At the moment, QLC doesn’t start making a compelling argument to me until you get to the 4TB range (or 2TB for NVMe), where the SLC cache is so big so as to be functionally an SLC drive to most users, and the price and density advantage start to make a meaningful difference.
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Is there a simple way to tell whether a mother board is SATA 2 or 3 if windows won't boot (hence the need for a new drive)? This is a ~6 year old desktop PC. Also, am I correct that the cable doesn't matter when it comes to SATA versions?
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Rinkles posted:Is there a simple way to tell whether a mother board is SATA 2 or 3 if windows won't boot (hence the need for a new drive)? This is a ~6 year old desktop PC. The easiest way is probably to look up the model of the motherboard and see what ports it shipped with. If it's 6 years old it's likely all SATA 3. SATA 2 and 3 are back and forwards compatible so it shouldn't prevent booting. You can also boot off a live USB drive of some flavor of linux. The cable shouldn't matter, sata 2 and 3 cables are functionally identical, the difference is the locking clip: https://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/1882-sata-cable-test-all-the-same
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Rexxed posted:You can also boot off a live USB drive of some flavor of linux. Yeah I used Puppy to recover data.
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Rinkles posted:Is there a simple way to tell whether a mother board is SATA 2 or 3 if windows won't boot (hence the need for a new drive)? This is a ~6 year old desktop PC. Unless the particular port, cable or drive is inherently faulty, the cable or port doesn't matter. I suggest you connect the drive on a new cable to another unused port to rule out a faulty port, then check whether the BIOS is able to detect the drive.
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Anyone know what a good m.2 SSD would be? I need to replace one a friend gave me and I dunno what a good one would be. https://www.newegg.com/western-digital-black-sn750-nvme-500gb/p/N82E16820250109 I'm thinking about this one, maybe?
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ThermoPhysical posted:Anyone know what a good m.2 SSD would be? I need to replace one a friend gave me and I dunno what a good one would be. That’s a good drive
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Bob Morales posted:That’s a good drive Recently found out that I'd need the drive sooner rather than later and I'm not sure how fast Newegg would ship. https://www.amazon.com/Blue-SN550-500GB-NVMe-Internal/dp/B07YFF3JCN/ Is this one good too? EDIT: It'd just be to store personal data, it wouldn't be for OS stuff. ThermoPhysical fucked around with this message at 20:58 on Jul 5, 2020 |
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ThermoPhysical posted:Recently found out that I'd need the drive sooner rather than later and I'm not sure how fast Newegg would ship. Yea that's also a good one.
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I think I have a 1TB Silicon Power, 1TB EVO 860, and 512GB EVO 860 somewhere, that I bought to play around with a homelab and never ended up really using. Then the two I end up using all the time ended up being a 120GB PNY and 480GB Sandisk
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ThermoPhysical posted:Recently found out that I'd need the drive sooner rather than later and I'm not sure how fast Newegg would ship. If this is a secondary drive for data storage you'd be fine with a QLC drive (Intel 660p, Crucial P1).
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Klyith posted:If this is a secondary drive for data storage you'd be fine with a QLC drive (Intel 660p, Crucial P1). I would grab a Crucial P1 (just looked em up and the 500GB is a bit less than the WD Blue) but I need it by at least Wednesday and the WD is delivered tomorrow with Amazon's One Day ship. Though I will keep an eye on these if I need another drive. Thank you!
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ADATA dropped off my replacement SSD on the 30th...still ain't left LA! Wtf is that. Thing gotta come to the very opposite corner of the continent
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codo27 posted:ADATA dropped off my replacement SSD on the 30th...still ain't left LA! Wtf is that. Thing gotta come to the very opposite corner of the continent Might just be a missing update in the system. In the past few months I’ve had a lot of packages look like they were still sitting in some hub until they teleported to my city and got scanned for delivery.
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But there's been a bunch of updates. It's nonsensical really
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90% of all tracked shipments are sane, fairly accurate, and correctly report more or less how and when you'd expect a package to go from point A to point B and then eventually to your doorstep. The other 10% are dropped down an oubliette, enter the Upsidedown, are routed through several fantastic realms that may or may not involve Narnia and your grim-dark locale of choice. How long they spend down there is unknown even to the package itself, for these fantastic realms are also of a difference space-time. Due to this, if and when they eventually pop out and teleport to your door, you may find that they have actually arrived before they left (common in the case of Dell packages), or potentially were never shipped in the first place (Etsy, and sometimes Lenovo). My personal favorite was a steamer trunk a friend of mine tried to ship to himself from San Diego to Afghanistan. After 4 months of no one being able to track or locate it, it showed up at his wife's house in North Carolina, emblazoned with import stamps from South Korea, Vietnam, and Panama. When asked about it, the shipper insisted it was in Kyrgyzstan and that they had no hubs in Panama to begin with. 
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So would my ROG Crosshair VIII Hero Mobo support having Windows/Linux on a m.2 nvme as a primary boot drive, or do you put your games and apps on it and boot off an SSD? From the Mobo manual: For 3rd Gen AMD Ryzen™ Processors, the M.2_1 supports PCIe 4.0 x4 and SATA modes M key design and type 2242/2260/2280 storage devices. I have a Ryzen Zen 2 3700x Does that mean pretty much any m.2 nvme is good? I mean I'll check first, but it's pretty standard now right? I'm reading pcie4 compatibility still gives negligible performance for the price point? But watch the console developments. Go TLC instead of QLC if you don't mind paying a fuzz more? Quaint Quail Quilt fucked around with this message at 15:19 on Jul 13, 2020 |
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Quaint Quail Quilt posted:So would my ROG Crosshair VIII Hero Yeah, the industry has pretty much settled on the 2280 format as being the "normal desktop" size. Some laptops and other real small format applications can only support the shorter ones, but unless something specifically says otherwise, 2280 is the default these days. And since PCIe 4.0 is backwards compatible, you can grab even the very newest NVMe drives that do like 5GB/s if you wanted. TLC > QLC unless you're buying a gently caress-off huge QLC (2TB or more).
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There are 22110 as well, my board supports them but from a quick search I did on pcpp it looks like they are mainly for enterprise use There should be a QVL for them as well just like memory but I doubt its as picky
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Sorry for the non technical post, but this is my first SSD and man are these things tiny and lightweight compared to a hard drive, and I'm not even talking about nvme.
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Rinkles posted:Sorry for the non technical post, but this is my first SSD and man are these things tiny and lightweight compared to a hard drive, and I'm not even talking about nvme. Most of the 2.5" ones aren't even filled halfway, they're often just an empty plastic or metal shell for mounting in standard slots with a small PCB in there that does all the magic.
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