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So, I had a spare NVMe 1TB drive kicking around because I'm a dummy. I bought a second drive because I remembered my laptop having two slots, but it turns out that was the laptop I bought before this one that I had to return. I got an enclosure for it, and I was just wondering- how much performance am I losing by having it as an external connected via thunderbolt 3 cable?
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Dec 10, 2019 18:52
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Atomizer posted:
Good to know, since my mom broke my thunderbolt port when she moved my laptop. Now I’m stuck on regular USB. The joys of visiting family for the holidays!
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Dec 14, 2019 23:41
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Bob Morales posted:Some of the cheaper Thunderbolt and USB stuff still is a SATA bridge so they're limited to 600mbs I’m getting 420 MB/s with it according to a benchmark I just ran. The NVMe inside my computer is a full GB a second faster, though I doubt that extra speed will really end up making a difference.
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Dec 15, 2019 01:00
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I’m looking for a good 2TB NVMe drive and a good 2TB 2 inch drive. Preferably less than 3 hundo each. Any suggestions?
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Feb 7, 2020 15:06
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Atomizer posted:Assuming the latter means "2 TB 2.5" SSD" (because this is clearly not the boot drive and you might very well be interested in a 2 TB FireCuda for $60 just for games) how about an 860 QVO for $160? Whoops, yep, meant 2.5 inch. Thanks for the suggestions everybody, probably gonna go with that NVMe mentioned upthread and this SATA one. Gonna have 5TB in my desktop and I have a pair of 1TB NVMe drives in enclosures as well. I have to stop buying computer parts when I’m bored working night shifts.
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Feb 8, 2020 14:54
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Sold out already. 
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Feb 20, 2020 19:54
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Stickman posted:Also SATA M.2 -> 2.5” SATA enclosures are only $10 if you choose M.2 and want the slot for something else later. I’ve gotten really good speeds off of the external enclosures I have for NVMe drives. They make for great externals, they’re teeny so they take up no space in a laptop bag.
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Mar 18, 2020 20:25
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Just benchmarked my NVMe over a 3.1 Thunderbolt cable, the results were weird: Are those low write speeds normal performance for an external or is my enclosure just a cheap piece of poo poo?
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Apr 21, 2020 18:21
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Not quite SSD, but close enough. I just pulled the HDD data drive that came with my computer and I was gonna give it to my mom to use as an external so she can back up her files- what’s a good enclosure that fits the full size 3.5 drives but also is relatively cheap? The last enclosure I bought for my SSDs were garbage so I don’t want to risk that again.
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May 28, 2020 21:06
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Jimbot posted:No luck with the power cycling. Thing's a paper weight now. Just have to reinstall some games, nothing major. The only suckass thing about this whole mess, well on top of losing a ssd, is that Windows still thinks I have the drive and won't let me uninstall the programs. So if I try to reinstall some things I just get told Windows can't find the install directory and to choose another (which I never get a choice). The Add/Remove programs tool hasn’t been any help? I’ve found that works on stuff like that after a drive failure.
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Aug 12, 2020 00:50
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DrDork posted:If a nation-state is interested in your data, you probably just want to shred the drive and not resell it on eBay to begin with. Plus going ham on a drive with power tools and firearms is a lot of fun. I usually wrap it up by putting them in an old microwave in a parking lot. China already has all my info (yaaay OPM hack) but I still make sure my drives are thoroughly dead when I dispose of them. E:Is bitlocker worth a drat for data encryption? I used to use it on a work laptop but I don’t have a lot of experience with it. Ugly In The Morning fucked around with this message at 21:36 on Oct 3, 2020 |
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Oct 3, 2020 21:34
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