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!

  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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    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).