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Is this the thread for HDDs as well?  I need a recommendation for a 1 TB SSD (or 1.5 TB if possible) and a 6/8 TB storage drive. Speed is somewhat important for the SSD as I'll use it for OS and games. Stability/low failure rate/lifetime is more important for the HDD. It'll be a pure storage unit but it should be able to process huge torrents at 35mbyte/s download speed without any delay.
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Sorry guys, I'm confused with all these terms. NAS? SMR? CMR? Easystores? I intend to be filling up the storage hdd as much as possible and often deleting and writing new stuff to it. 5400 rpm should be fine in terms of sacrificing some performance for lifetime. Klyith posted:but with consoles now having very fast NVMe storage it's a good bet for the future. And these drives are only $10-20 more than sata SSDs. You mean games will get coded in ways that take advantage of the extra potential bandwidth from NVMe from now on?
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Storage: Western Digital Red 6 TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive ($145.99 @ Amazon) So this is the storage hdd I'm going for unless someone has a better alternative I had decided on an Adata xpg8200 1tb SSD. But someone in the build thread had this to say about it: "SSD: that ADATA drive used to have a faster controller in it but it doesn't anymore. It's still a perfectly good drive but it's really competing more in the $100 segment now, so you might as well go with a drive that costs that much like the thread favorite WD SN550." I can get a Kingston A2000 M.2 1TB for $40 less PirateBob fucked around with this message at 00:06 on Jan 8, 2021 |
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Jan 7, 2021 23:54
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It's a moot point in my case anyway as I can only see crappy MyBooks for sale here. I'm gonna go for the cheapest possible m.2 nvme ssd option at 1tb, the Kingston A2000, unless anyone wants to convince me otherwise. I'm hoping to have it last for 5+ years so quality components is a bit of a concern. Edit: by the way - something I haven't seen mentioned in the m2 vs sata debate - the m2 cards get hotter don't they? Does that factor into lifetime expectancy? PirateBob fucked around with this message at 18:08 on Jan 8, 2021 |
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Jan 8, 2021 17:56
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Should I expect trouble in trying to install Windows 10 (from a usb stick) to an M.2 drive?
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Thanks. Why does Rufus want to force me into formatting my usb stick (8gb) to NTFS when I want to create a windows 10 usb stick to boot to/install from? Last time I installed Windows 10, I used FAT32. Edit: Found out why. The newest Win10 isos have a file that's over 4gb, so NTFS is required. PirateBob fucked around with this message at 23:22 on Jan 10, 2021 |
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I've just connected my old storage hdd after running my PC with only an ssd for a few days. Blissful silence. The hdd is loud as balls, even when not in use. This sucks. If I had money I'd replace it with a huge ssd. Is there a way to manually switch a hdd off/on from inside Windows?
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Jan 23, 2021 19:54
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Tempted to just buy another SSD and use it for storage and store less stuff. Are SSD prices likely to fall anytime soon?
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Jan 23, 2021 21:37
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Klyith posted:If a HDD makes a lot of noise like that, it's generally because your case is resonating with the vibration of the drive. Sometimes even outside the case -- I've had PCs on wood floors where it was the floor that was producing sound, and putting something soft under the case to break that vibration stopped it. I exaggerated about "loud as balls". I've just become more sensitive to noise, and now that I have a new PC which is practically inaudible during idle/light tasks (thanks Scythe), the HDD stands out. There's no vibration as far as I can tell. It's a 5400rpm. There's just this constant whooshing, a kind of mechanical noise pollution I'd rather banish from my soundscape. 
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Jan 24, 2021 18:10
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Why are drive manufacturers still getting away with the false marketing of selling e.g. [2 billion bytes or whatever] drives as "2TB", when the usable space is actually only 1.81TB?
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Feb 6, 2021 14:24
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I need more space. Is there a better option than a Samsung 870 Evo 2TB available currently or in the near future? I'm thinking SATA due to ease of install, and I'm already using my mobos main M2 slot. Vaguely remember something being peculiar about the second slot and I'm not gonna bother looking into it. Priorities: Lifetime/absence of any fuckery. Performance. Price.This will be mainly for storage and apps/games, not my OS drive.
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Thanks guys. I'll just go with a 870 evo.
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SSD life time expectancy: When it comes to TBW (Terabytes written), does it matter at all whether you write a ton of small files vs big files?
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Klyith posted:Not really, but also technically yes? Aight,  More of an academic question.
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Is now a good time to buy another SSD (2tb nvme m2 probably) even though I don't need to use it yet? (don't have a need for more storage, and don't have another m2 slot atm, but will build a new pc sometime in 2024) One of the ssd memory producers, I forget which, said they wanted to increase prices by 20% each quarter in the coming year.  I've seen a price increase already on the ssd I bought last time. But then there's something about a new generation coming soon or something?
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