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On 29/08/2014 06:54, Joseph wrote: |
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> No, I wouldn't get 1TB SSD too expensive but something like 300GB I |
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> might consider it. |
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> Are they worth the investment? What brand do you have and how long? |
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Only you can decide that. |
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They work, they work well, they are fast, very fast |
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Are you willing to spend the money? |
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Quality does vary with price, there is some cheap rubbish out there. |
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Mine are Samsungs as shipped by Dell, my opinion is they are worth every |
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cent and I downgraded the GPU on the quote to rather spend on the SSD. |
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You might have a different point of view |
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> Joseph |
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> On 08/29/14 06:11, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>> On 29/08/2014 00:56, Joseph wrote: |
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>>> So there seems to be a pattern :-/ |
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>>> How about SSD they are not that much more? Will it withstand Gentoo |
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>>> compilations :-) ? |
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>> No. There is not a pattern. Two guys used drives for 5 years and then |
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>> they failed. |
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>> 5 years? Wow. That's double what you can reasonably expect, you got good |
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>> SSDs are much more expensive than spinning disks, 1TB will cost a |
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>> fortune. But they work in Gentoo very well - I'm on my second and this |
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>> one is 256G, still runs as fast as the day I got it. |
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>>> Joseph |
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>>> On 08/28/14 22:46, Mick wrote: |
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>>>> On Thursday 28 Aug 2014 21:45:10 Joseph wrote: |
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>>>>> I need to select 500GB or 1TB infernal 2.5in drive, any recommendation |
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>>>>> (reliability) of the brand. My current WD 320GB fail after 5-years. |
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>>>> Interesting ... mine also failed catastrophically a couple of months |
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>>>> around 5 years of continuous use. |
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>>>> Which reminds me to run a backup on my Seagate: |
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>>>> Model Family: Seagate Momentus 7200.4 |
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>>>> Device Model: ST9500420ASG |
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>>>> I'm not sure how much anecdotal reports on reliable drives actually |
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>>>> water, unless we're talking about an epidemic of failures like I |
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>>>> recall Dell's Seagate drives experienced a few years ago. |
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>>>> Regards, |
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>>>> Mick |
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>> Alan McKinnon |
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>> alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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Alan McKinnon |
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