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I haven't checked in years but did the deals forum SSD thread go away?
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td4guy posted:No deals had been posted since Black Friday, so it got archived. Well poo poo. Can someone give me some examples of what a 'good' deal looks like these days? The last time I bought an SSD it was like $150 for a 240GB sandforce was a good deal.
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Jul 17, 2017 20:06
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Are these 'datacenter' SSDs no good for laptops? https://losangeles.craigslist.org/sgv/sop/d/brand-new-sealed-box-samsung/6191810519.html
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Jul 30, 2017 05:15
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When you format an SSD, how does the SSD know it’s a format operation and zeros all the blocks? Is there a special format ATA command that should be sent during a format? Pershaps older OSes might not be able to do this correctly?
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Jan 11, 2018 20:51
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When you enable trim in macOS using trimforce, it kinda hangs for a while. Is that hang time the OS sending the SSD all unused blocks and the SSD zeroing them? Seems to take about as long as a secure erase.
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Jan 11, 2018 20:56
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nielsm posted:"Full format" does, "quick format" only rewrites the basic file system so it appears empty. Actually I’m not sure. A full format to the SSD controller is just a bunch of random writes even if all zero could be valid data. I had a brain fart when I posted. I think you have to send the secure erase ATA command for the SSD to know the blocks are free. So traditional formatting does nothing other than destroying the file table for the OS. The SSD still thinks there’s valid data.
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Jan 11, 2018 21:47
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:It's probably issuing TRIM to all of the unused LBAs, but I've never watched the specific behavior of trimforce through an analyzer. The SSD's behavior is indeterminate since different FTLs do whatever the hell they want. Right. I just figured since the hang time is kind of long for just issuing the list of unused blocks. Not sure if there’s another ATA command that forces the SSD to flush its zeroing queue but if it’s not gonna take long then it would make sense to do it when trim is enabled.
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Jan 11, 2018 22:03
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Is this a pricing mistake? https://www.amazon.com/HP-Internal-Solid-2LU81AA-ABL/dp/B075CPBWMX/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1515732576&sr=8-4&keywords=s700+pro
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Jan 12, 2018 05:51
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ChiralCondensate posted:And read the whole thing before you do it: don't do it from (certain?) USB-SATA adapters and brick your drive like I did! I bricked a regular HDD by sending it a secure erase command for shits 
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Jan 12, 2018 05:52
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Anime Schoolgirl posted:$280 sounds like a normal price unless you're seeing something different Oh nm. I haven't shopped SSDs in a while. Wasn't expecting 1T drives for that price and the S700 pro initial reviews put the price for 1T at over $100 more than that.
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Jan 12, 2018 06:28
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You can secure erase with Parted Magic bootable linux. Not free tho. I have the same XLR8 but not nearly as much use on it.
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Jan 12, 2018 08:15
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My XLR8 firmware is marked on the sticker as CS211101
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Jan 12, 2018 18:41
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Naffer posted:My sticker says FW version 5.4.1. We might have different controllers. Guh do I need to register my SSDs now?....nah gently caress it. Ain’t got no time to reg the 1000s of parts I have. GL with Don. Keep us posted.
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Jan 12, 2018 21:04
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Palladium posted:MX500 is better every way through and through. No quirks with the MX500 reported? I'm thinking of getting a 1T or 2T
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Mar 6, 2018 16:46
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So...an SSD controller actually knows how much actual data is on it if the drive is properly trimmed right? So an external could in theory have accurate usage displayed on an embedded display without using any assistance software and no dependence on the file system like previous attempts at an embedded capacity display.
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Mar 11, 2018 23:14
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I think those older gen e-ink displays relied on an application running on a host OS to send the capacity use to some embedded controller on the external. It wouldn't be accurate if you plugged into another computer and started adding/deleting stuff. If the SSD controller were in directly control of the display, it could use trim info to determine usage but that also assumes every device that writes and deletes from it is trim capable. Maybe in the future.
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Mar 15, 2018 23:32
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So will all NVME SSDs operate in AHCI mode if necessary? How much faster is AHCI mode on PCIe x4 vs 6G-SATA?
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Mar 16, 2018 02:57
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Klyith posted:NMVe is its own thing, and a NVMe drive can only operate in NMVe mode. Setting AHCI or RAID mode on the bios should have no effect on it, that only effects the SATA drives. don't confuse NMVe with M.2 Thanks. I got confused a bit reading some other articles online about how some(?) Samsung NVME SSDs will also fall back to AHCI if the chipset or whatever doesn't support NVME. I'm looking into some hackery with a Z87 that usually doesn't support NVME booting and would require a M.2 PCIe card for said fuckery.
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Mar 16, 2018 07:06
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Sigh. Ebay has their 15% going on now too. 860 Pro 512 for $200 MX500 1TB for $200 1100 2TB for $300 edit: lol gently caress it I gotta pay tax for CA ...Sigh. I don't even need one but I've got spare machines that could use it for no other purpose than to be on an SSD. Shaocaholica fucked around with this message at 17:54 on Mar 20, 2018 |
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Mar 20, 2018 17:50
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Snagged a 860 Pro 512G for $199. Don't hate me thread!
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Mar 21, 2018 02:31
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Tangentally industry related but RED, the company that makes cameras, got exposed for using cheap off the shelf SSDs in their 'proprietary' SSD media with something like a 10x markup based on the market price of the internal SSD. Kind of blowing up on youtube, etc. RED of course is doubling down on their decision and marketing.
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Jul 18, 2019 03:49
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coke posted:https://www.cinema5d.com/whats-inside-a-red-mini-mag-the-controversy-jarred-lands-statement/ He's not a tech bro. More like a tech dad with smug Oakleys on. This guys videos are getting weirder. Trying to simplify some basic computer concepts seems to have made the message harder to interpret but whatever. Looks like this guy is going to take Red to the grave if he has to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osWtyplOMKA
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Jul 27, 2019 17:05
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Klyith posted:LTT made an SSD RAID array that was so rear end-backwards that he needed professional recovery services from single failures. Being LTT seems like a low bar. I can't tell or bother to look up if LTT deliberately does dumb poo poo just for the attention it would get . They obviously know it does and I'm sure they have deliberately done stuff but how much of it is accidental vs purely contrived? I'm leaning towards contrived since there's no way his entire staff are that dumb. Linus: Here's a guy that knows fabrication and used to build dune buggies and poo poo LTT: shows dude making a heatsink that looks like cat food Linus: this is so cool it's the best we can do! 
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Jul 29, 2019 18:12
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What kind of sales prices can I expect for a 4TB sata SSD in general and maybe around black friday?
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Oct 16, 2019 17:55
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Probably none. Biggest you'll likely see is 2TB. KK, what should I be looking for as far as 2TB prices?
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Oct 16, 2019 19:51
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Lol I still remember the $1/GB days weren't that long ago.
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Oct 16, 2019 22:00
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Bob Morales posted:My XM-25 was $200 and only 80GB I still have mine and I think I paid around the same. Core2 4ever.
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Oct 16, 2019 23:52
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What 2.5” 1TB SSDs would have been around in 2015?
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Oct 18, 2019 15:26
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I'm seeing 2T MX500s for less than 2 bills on ebay.
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Oct 18, 2019 23:04
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What are some good sata SSD controllers that are good at operating in a trim-less environment as a legacy OS drive.
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Oct 21, 2019 04:14
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Xenomorph posted:We've had mixed luck with this. Thanks. That's really informative but I'm sure there's a lot more to be said. Right now I'm mostly interested in running SATA native(no PATA adapter) SSDs in OS X 10.4 and 10.5. I thought Win7 didn't have Trim? And you can't do that fancy partitioning in OS X using CLI tools?
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Oct 21, 2019 17:10
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orcane posted:Pretty sure Windows 7 had SSD/TRIM support since release. If memory serves I recall it wasn't added until later and even then it needed to be manually enabled. e: it's also the dumbest flag/variable with a negate logic. Is trim enabled? (This is the logical question) Is disable trim enabled? (This is the actual variable) 
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Oct 21, 2019 18:08
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Is there a PCIe x16 SSD that can use all 16 lanes? I'm trying to do something stupid on an old system. Doesn't need to be bootable.
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Nov 6, 2019 19:34
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priznat posted:There are but they’re usually quad m.2 drives behind a PCIe switch and big bucks. How does this work? Is there an IC that sits between the M.2 NVME drives and the PCIe bus or does that just expose itself as 4 independent drives each using 4 lanes?
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Nov 6, 2019 20:20
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priznat posted:It also looks like if you use it with certain gigabyte motherboards the bios supports doing different RAID things with it. In this case it could look like one single drive. So if it's just 4 independent drives on the PCIe bus then any raid functions would have to be done somewhere on the main board or I guess it could be watered down raid that requires an OS driver which does raid ops on the CPU like intel used to do :/
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Nov 6, 2019 20:41
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I lost a 2TB MX500 out in the field in an external enclosure with my name and phone number. Let’s see if it turns up.
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Nov 17, 2019 22:32
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It can't be straight forward logic that makes it stop working. There has to be some sort of unhandled exception. But still, JFC
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Nov 26, 2019 20:54
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Is samsung Rapid mode BS in 2020? Shouldn't that be something the OS kernel should be optimizing for?
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Jan 8, 2020 00:39
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It just seems kind of inefficient to cache files to ram outside of the OS doing it. Not sure how default windows does it but at work in linux if I access a file over the network cold it goes as usual but after that its almost instantaneous since its cached and I don't think I've ever ran into limits like file size so even big rear end files are cached as long as I have free mem. And I'm sure the OS is checking if its been updates on the network but most of the time that's not an issue. Like in windows if you open a 2GB photoshop file the next re-open of that file should be significantly faster if you have the spare memory and without any gimmicky 3rd party IO hacks.
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What budget/used NVME should I get for a Z97 system?
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