Hi!

2 of my drives failed recently (as well as an external drive), plus my faithful HP Proliant Gen 8 is ripe for retirement (I’m small potatoes compared to you guys).

So I bought a mini-PC (with a N100). I’m considering going all SSDs.

What are the cheapest ones? They can be slow.

Is there a “storage SSD” category?

I’ve looked at OEMs but they’re not that interesting, or I didn’t know where to look.
Aliexpress is full of fakes. As is the second hand market. Or it’s legit but as expensive as new.

Thanks for reading!

  • Shimitar@downonthestreet.euEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I usually pick the cheapest of a brand I trust. Kingston atm for my ssds.

    Don’t care, even the crappiest is way faster than what I need plus less energy hungry than mechanicals.

    I focus on size, buy the biggest I can afford according to the raid level I need. Currently have 4 x 4Tb Kingston ssds in RAID5.

    Edit: don’t buy ssds on aliexpress, don’t go that cheap… Go cheap like buy consumer level stuff not server grade stuff, but still from reputable sellers and brands.

    Yeah, would be great to buy server grade stuff, but I don’t have a server grade budget.

    • harsh3466@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      1 day ago

      As an additional warning probably best to avoid amazon because counterfeits are just dumped in the bin with the actual mfr stuff and you could get burned there too. Buy from B&H or some other vendor that doesn’t have this practice

      • Shimitar@downonthestreet.euEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        I had good experiences 10y ago with amazon “white labels” mechanical drives… But its aneddotical and didn’t go with amazon for my sdds anyway.

    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      SSD isn’t necessarily less energy hungry than spinning platter.

      It really depends on the specific units and use patterns.

      Generally SSD has better idle power, and HD has better read and write power, but that doesn’t even always hold true.

      If your device sits idle long enough, SSD is better for power, but the write time to get to idle could easily consume the power differential.

      https://www.edn.com/power-vs-energy-ssd-and-hdd-case-studies/

      • Shimitar@downonthestreet.euEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        Very interesting, thanks…

        At least ssds are much less hot and lot quieter than mechanical drives, and in a home, not chilled, and not isolated environment means even more than power consumption to me.

        Edit: my 4 x 4tb ssds anyway are much less power hungry than the 2x6Tb spinning drives they replaced, so much that my overall server consumption dropped significantly in my home assistant readings (via ZigBee power meter).

      • Shimitar@downonthestreet.euEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        I could upgrade my requirements to server grade, but not the budget, so I would say the driving factor is budget :)

        Hand me a bunch of server grade ssds for the price of consumer and I would gladly install them.