Purchased a 120gb Ironside Titanium SSD and wondered if they were anygood. It will become the main boot drive in my laptop that dual boots Windows 10 and Puppy Linux.
Ebay listing Ironside SSD
Ebay listing Ironside SSD
Question Anyone heard of Ironside brand SSD's?
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AllanGH
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Uh-huh.....that sticker is pretty-much what you can have lithoed-up for almost zero cost, and the SSD case looks like a hunk of plastic injection molded around something un-nameable.
Funny that you can buy a new Kingston 120Gb SSD on AMZ for 19USD and free shipping....Not that it's actually worth it, mind you, but they work for Ready Boost and Page File on win-systems.
Funny that you can buy a new Kingston 120Gb SSD on AMZ for 19USD and free shipping....Not that it's actually worth it, mind you, but they work for Ready Boost and Page File on win-systems.
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Nothing wrong with 120Gb SSDs. They just require more diligence on space management. Larger SSDs are more about convenience, although life expectancy and r/w speeds are often better, but on a $20 budget, that's not a concern
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On a $20 budget, you get both small AND crappy.
For the added price of a delivered pizza, you can alleviate one or both of those issues.
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As long as they aren't Kingston SSDs, you mean. 😉
About the only attraction for the 20-buck Kingstons is the fact that they are still cheaper than equivalent capacity USB flash drives.
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If all you do is web browsing an utube, even a 32GB drive is sort of OK.
I have 2 Asus Transformers. One with a 32GB eMMC/2GB RAM and one with a 64GB eMMC/4GB RAM.
Strictly travel devices, both running Win 10.
The 64GB is currently upgrading itself to Win 10 v1903, and the 32GB will be doing that later tonight.
Strictly web browsing/email/travel devices.
And both with a 256GB microSD card as a D drive, for all that other stuff.
Any actual PC? 120GB is TooSmall.
I have 2 Asus Transformers. One with a 32GB eMMC/2GB RAM and one with a 64GB eMMC/4GB RAM.
Strictly travel devices, both running Win 10.
The 64GB is currently upgrading itself to Win 10 v1903, and the 32GB will be doing that later tonight.
Strictly web browsing/email/travel devices.
And both with a 256GB microSD card as a D drive, for all that other stuff.
Any actual PC? 120GB is TooSmall.
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Yes.
I have an old drive from an ancient Dell Latitude (1998 era) around here somewhere with a DSL install on it.
2GB drive.
If I were sufficiently motivated, and could locate all the parts, I expect the old silly thing would still boot up.
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Ooo haters lol.
My 128Gb Samsung 840 Pro does just fine with OS and OS related stuff like Office and Adobe. That includes Steam base files. Rest of the stuff is on a 1Tb hdd. Works just fine. Just need to do things like delete hiberfil.sys, that alone freed up 12Gb. Documents, downloads, pagefile is shoved onto hdd.
Been this way for 6 years now. Given the choice of crappy $20 ssd or a pizza and everything loaded from hdd, I'd starve for a minute and go with the ssd.
My 128Gb Samsung 840 Pro does just fine with OS and OS related stuff like Office and Adobe. That includes Steam base files. Rest of the stuff is on a 1Tb hdd. Works just fine. Just need to do things like delete hiberfil.sys, that alone freed up 12Gb. Documents, downloads, pagefile is shoved onto hdd.
Been this way for 6 years now. Given the choice of crappy $20 ssd or a pizza and everything loaded from hdd, I'd starve for a minute and go with the ssd.
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So polite. Friggin Lazy would be the urban translation?Most people aren't that diligent...
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with how big windows updates keep getting a 120GB drive is barely a minimum anymore. since ironside is more of a no name brand i am sure you can find a cheap 250GB SSD drive somewhere
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LOL....at this stage of life, that's the problem: Developing the motivation to dig through all the "stuff"[1] to find something.
[1] As George Carlin used to say, it's called "stuff" because it belongs to you. "Stuff" that belongs to other people is referred to by an entirely different noun.
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Holy Cr@p!
The latest Stretch installation (normal, not minimal) eats-up a whopping 780MB of drive space. I guess I need more bloatware to justify a 2TB boot NVMe.
Side note on low capacity - it depends on your use case. I used a 128GB for the Micro Machine (see my sig) - but, it's a Linux box that doesn't get a lot of use. I'm somewhere in the vicinity of 20GB of total space being used on it.
Dual booting Windows 10 and Puppy Linux, though? Well....
Yeah, that would be fine. And, even if you're giving only half of the space to Windows - a clean install of Windows can be done in under 16GB, you just have to be very careful managing updates, space usage, etc. It's doable if you're not doing a lot with the Windows side.
Dual booting Windows 10 and Puppy Linux, though? Well....
Yeah, that would be fine. And, even if you're giving only half of the space to Windows - a clean install of Windows can be done in under 16GB, you just have to be very careful managing updates, space usage, etc. It's doable if you're not doing a lot with the Windows side.
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