[VERGE] There’s never been a better time to buy an SSD for your PC or PS5

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• empireOfLove@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve been very guilty of frivolous spending on flash… Holy shit its gotten so cheap. I’ve been buying up 2Tb m.2 NVME drives for $100 in my new pc and then like 4 or 5 1tb sata drives from cheaper Chinese companies for like $35 to replace older spinning rust in some of my project computers. Guess I’m doing my part to prop up the market lol

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  • worfamerryman@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Some of the really cheap stuff could have similar read and write speeds as a mechanical drive. Make sure you really do your research on it.

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    • empireOfLove@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I have. So far I’ve all gotten drives that easily max out SATA so I haven’t been burned yet. And they’re all in machines that if the controller goes belly up and the drive dies, I really don’t care, so longevity is not much of a concern either.

      Even the really shit drives still have random access times that beat the pants off spinning rust. So it’s a net positive either way.

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