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Is it just me or are SSDs really expensive nowadays?

Looking to purchase 1-2 new 2.5" SSDs to expand the Fediverse.Games storage pool, and where it was previously $300-$350 (AUD) for a decent quality SSD, its now closer to at least $400.

Parallel to that, any tips for picking up decent (non-QLC, ideally including DRAM) 2.5" SSDs for a decent price?

Prefer 4TB models, but would do 1.92 or 2TB in need.

I'm in Australia but happy to buy genuine models from overseas. Also happy to purchase used as long as there's a decent amount of life left in them.

Also taking hardware donations (I ain't too proud to beg 🤣)

Please boost widely, and if there's any useful hashtags for this post please let me know.

#SSD#Hardware#Recommendations

Basteltipp:

Ein m.2 SATAIII Speicher kann man in einem externen Gehäuse ähnlich wie mit einem USB-Stick betreiben oder ihn aber in eine SATA Adapterkarte packen und ihn dann wie eine normale SSD in einen Rechner als "Festplatte" einsetzen. Diese Karte kostete keine 10€!

Habe die eingebaute alte HD-Platte mit RescueZilla auf die neue SSD via USB-Adapter geklont und diese funktioniert im Notebook aus dem Jahr 2010 nach Umbau wie erwartet.

#linux#ssd#m2

we should figure out exactly how we want to continue fixing up our desktop PC and make the best use of the 1 TB SSD that Gravlislizard gave us. right now the situation is roughly:

the desktop PC has about half its 2 TB drive set aside for #MXLinux, which we've found so far to be more pleasant to work with than all the #Ubuntu varieties we've tried. I dunno what it is with Ubuntu #Linux because we keep trying it out, feeling at the start like it's friendly and easy to use and tends to support all our peripherals out the box, and then...I dunno it always goes wrong somehow. we end up having weird problems crop up and we get annoyed all over again and then try something else. but MX Linux has been pretty kind to us so far.

we HAD though of using the other half of the 2 TB drive for dual-booting, but that was before Gravis got us the #SSD. his suggestion, which seems eminently practical, was that rather than fucking about with dual-boot arrangements we should simply boot off the SSD if we want to have more than one OS option. but there's some odd impulses floating round the Pnictogen Wing, coming from who knows where, to keep up the dual-boot idea. It might be my sibling Frisk, who (back in our previous life together, growing up in the 1980s and 1990s etc.) was more technically adept with #computers and very fond of mucking about with dual- and ternary-boot systems. I'd tried stuff like that myself.

but if I do do a dual boot, I wonder what I should have as the 2nd option.

~Chara of Pnictogen 🔴

My /home directory was stored on a RAID 0 composed of two cheapish SSDs, and one of them already has "slow sectors".

I migrated it to the next best thing I had lying around: An array of 4 mechanical HDDs in RAID 10. (far2 layout)

You would think that HDDs would be painfully slow, but it's not that bad, actually.

It's very slightly slower, but it appears that 4 HDDs working together can almost beat a cheap chinese SSD.

#Linux#SSD#HDD

" First the "SATA" connection has no erase feature and SATA is most often used for disk drives anyway (though some large capacity enterprise HDD have a secure erase button to be used one time before disposal)." *

I can't with some people.

PSA: stop doing dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdX

use (as root)
hdparm --user-master u --security-erase-enhanced 4HFgWWDzWpRC6 /dev/sdX

hdparm --user-master u --security-erase 4HFgWWDzWpRC6 /dev/sdX

or if you are on a NVME drive
nvme sanitize /dev/nvmeX -a start-crypto-erase

Also please you all make sure that you know what you are talking about before you make a fool out of yourself in a public space

Ref: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel

*Context: secure erase on SSD drives via SATA interface.

#linux#ssd#sata
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