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Cheap, but reliable SSDs? (feddit.de)
submitted 6 months ago by agressivelyPassive@feddit.de to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I want to upgrade some of my older machines with some new, high(er) capacity SSDs (SATA and nvme). I don't need super high speeds, just something in the TB range in terms of storage.

Problem is, there's so much garbage out there, I can't really tell, which SSD is inexpensive and reliable and which is just utter garbage.

I thought about buying new, but last gen Samsung/WD SSDs.

Intenso and Fanxiang both seem to have been around for a few years, but reviews seem to be mixed.

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[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Price to published write endurance might get you started, but I’m curious what answers you get because this is a difficult question IMHO. Actual reliability depends heavily on firmware which is a vendor-specific secret sauce.

[-] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 3 points 6 months ago

It's absolutely opaque to me, especially the non-big-name brands barely get any reliable reviews and especially given the silicon lottery, I can't tell if every chip is like the reviewed ones.

If I just happen to get the bad module that craps out after 6 months, the positive reviews are not that helpful.

[-] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 3 points 6 months ago

If I just happen to get the bad module that craps out after 6 months, the positive reviews are not that helpful.

That's what RAID(5) is for, if a drive craps out you just shrug and get a new one (or warranty), no data loss. Easy enough to cobble together with a PCIe card and 4ish smaller drives, faster too...

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Well, except when a second drive dies 36 hours later and suddenly you are panicking..

[-] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 1 points 6 months ago

Yep, as can happen easily if you buy in a batch. Just like ransom (related, no?), non-sequential serial numbers please.

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