Dirt Cheap SSD
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weberdarren97
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- Aug 10, 2015
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I'm sure you're aware of what I'm about to say... I don't recommend this.
What's your max budget?
What's your max budget?
weberdarren97
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eBay, Craigslist. If using eBay, check the seller's feedback before buying. I never buy from sellers with less than 95% positive feedback.
photonboy
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- Jun 20, 2006
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http://pcpartpicker.com/products/internal-hard-drive/#t=0&sort=a10&page=1
No 2.5" SSD for $20USD, but there are some new ones for slightly more.
*Be very careful of SHIPPING COSTS. Many of the cheaper products have inflated costs at EBay. Such as:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-X25-M-2-5-80GB-SATA-II-MLC-Internal-Solid-State-Drive-SSD-SSDSA2M080G-/132108953403?hash=item1ec24ea73b:g:YaIAAOSw4A5YsykC
I think something like THIS is one of the better choices ($40):
http://pcpartpicker.com/product/t6X2FT/mushkin-internal-hard-drive-mknssdec60gb
$40 for 60GB, plus free shipping, NEW product. hard to beat (prices change)
Low average review, but I'm not sure what you can expect for this price range..
No 2.5" SSD for $20USD, but there are some new ones for slightly more.
*Be very careful of SHIPPING COSTS. Many of the cheaper products have inflated costs at EBay. Such as:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-X25-M-2-5-80GB-SATA-II-MLC-Internal-Solid-State-Drive-SSD-SSDSA2M080G-/132108953403?hash=item1ec24ea73b:g:YaIAAOSw4A5YsykC
I think something like THIS is one of the better choices ($40):
http://pcpartpicker.com/product/t6X2FT/mushkin-internal-hard-drive-mknssdec60gb
$40 for 60GB, plus free shipping, NEW product. hard to beat (prices change)
Low average review, but I'm not sure what you can expect for this price range..
Shaun o
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- Oct 7, 2007
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I hope you do understand how SSD flash drives work Wcrockett.
If a SSD drive has had a hard life, on the amount of data written to it and read from it for each days use.
Then it highly likely that the drive will fail withing its state operational life hours, or online up time.
SSD drives do not work in the same way as mechanical based hard drives though.
In respect or terms of how data is written to them or data is received by accessing a flash memory cell.
Unlike a standard mechanical based hard drive it does not flag a bad sector of the failing flash memory and tell it to be ignored due to errors.
If part of a flash cell becomes damaged depending on how they are arranged the result of it failing renders the whole drive and the rest of the Bank inaccessible because it uses a direct or fastest route to the memory cell or location it`s stored in a sequential manner not a random one when it comes to reading data.
It`s not cost effective to buy a SSD drive that has been pre used, the lower you go in price if bought new also the worse quality and life hours to reading and writing data becomes really bad, along with the speed of reading and writing of data.And when I mean speed I mean slightly above what a mechanical based HDD can deliver in read and write performances The potential problems of buying cheap SSD drives just is not worth doing.
And it will not be cost effective in anyway if you have to buy a cheap SSD drive two or three times a single year, due to failures buy using cheap SSD drives.
If a SSD drive has had a hard life, on the amount of data written to it and read from it for each days use.
Then it highly likely that the drive will fail withing its state operational life hours, or online up time.
SSD drives do not work in the same way as mechanical based hard drives though.
In respect or terms of how data is written to them or data is received by accessing a flash memory cell.
Unlike a standard mechanical based hard drive it does not flag a bad sector of the failing flash memory and tell it to be ignored due to errors.
If part of a flash cell becomes damaged depending on how they are arranged the result of it failing renders the whole drive and the rest of the Bank inaccessible because it uses a direct or fastest route to the memory cell or location it`s stored in a sequential manner not a random one when it comes to reading data.
It`s not cost effective to buy a SSD drive that has been pre used, the lower you go in price if bought new also the worse quality and life hours to reading and writing data becomes really bad, along with the speed of reading and writing of data.And when I mean speed I mean slightly above what a mechanical based HDD can deliver in read and write performances The potential problems of buying cheap SSD drives just is not worth doing.
And it will not be cost effective in anyway if you have to buy a cheap SSD drive two or three times a single year, due to failures buy using cheap SSD drives.
photonboy
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Shaun o,
Write wears are not really the issue. It's simply basic reliability of construction including the controller which can fail as well.
When areas wear out they do get blocked off, but wearing algorithms shift the data before they do wear out.
The result is that you have near the maximum amount of space until the SSD can no longer shift data. However, even a cheap SSD can take a long time to get to that point. If it's working now, and used for light usage it's very unlikely to die in the next few years due to wear issues.
I agree that a $20, used SDD with questionable quality control may not be a great investment though.
Write wears are not really the issue. It's simply basic reliability of construction including the controller which can fail as well.
When areas wear out they do get blocked off, but wearing algorithms shift the data before they do wear out.
The result is that you have near the maximum amount of space until the SSD can no longer shift data. However, even a cheap SSD can take a long time to get to that point. If it's working now, and used for light usage it's very unlikely to die in the next few years due to wear issues.
I agree that a $20, used SDD with questionable quality control may not be a great investment though.
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