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Mental Hospitality
Jan 5, 2011

I probably should have asked here before spending money...

Group opinion on the Western Digital Blue 1TB? My laptop has a 256GB m.2 drive with room for a 2.5in. Went to download GTA5. 90+GB laughed in my face. It's an older machine and absolute speed wasn't a priority, I think the m.2 drive is still SATA anyways. I know it's not bleeding edge, but it was cheap enough on Amazon. I remember buying my first SSD, a 240GB something, for like $250 dollars, so a 1TB for around 100 from a brand I know seemed like a reasonable impulse purchase.

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Mental Hospitality
Jan 5, 2011

Actuarial Fables posted:

It's good. The only "uh oh" would be if you bought the older, non-3d NAND version, as the performance isn't as good.

Says it's "3D Nand". Well that's good to know. I'm so behind on my ssd knowledge. Like "Have you heard of that fancy MLC flash storage" behind. Are there any current generation drives that fail catastrophically and early these days?

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