On 16/01/2021 10:12, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

They are still about three times the price of spinning rust, but its
getting closer. They are faster last *longer* and are more shock resistant.

True, but choose your brand carefully...

I have seen noticeable differences in reliability between some brands.
For example I have had very high failure rates with Mushkin and AData.
Very low rates on Kingston, almost zero on HyperX (also technically
Kingston) and so far, zero failures on Samsung which has become my brand
of choice for now.

Also avoid no name SSDs from ebay etc, many lack adequate DRAM caches,
and have slow controllers. So they look quite quick on small transfers,
but the performance drops off very quickly on large reads and writes.


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Cheers,

John.

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