2022 Black Friday Cyber Monday Holiday Deals

[staknhalo]

Honestly over 8 years and 8 various SSDs for multiple HTPCs/computers of mine I've only had 1 die in all that time and it was an 840 EVO back in like 2015, they're more durable than we all scare ourselves into thinking IMO

 

[TaintedSquirrel]

Yummy.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Kingston-NV2-PCIe-4-0-NVMe-SSD-1TB-Internal-M-2-2280/1199242785

 

[sk3tch]

Was just gonna post that. Thoughts and prayers it actually goes through!

 

[TaintedSquirrel]

Was just gonna post that. Thoughts and prayers it actually goes through!

It's likely a pricing error but I ordered 2 anyway.

 

[GotNoRice]

Yummy.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Kingston-NV2-PCIe-4-0-NVMe-SSD-1TB-Internal-M-2-2280/1199242785

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Just checked and it's showing $79.99 for me. Oh well.

I've got 3 980 Pro's I've been using for almost 2 years now.
this one here was used for Chia plotting and has almost 1PB reads and writes to it and it still shows 56% life left and still runs good as a data drive, although it's currently empty as I don't use the PC it's installed in much.
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That percentage SMART health attribute can be kind of deceiving. It would imply that the drive still has more than half it's life left, but in reality, any drive that I've ever had that made it that low was basically on the verge of death at that point.

 

[TaintedSquirrel]

56% health can't be good. Both of my SATA SSD's (~10 yrs and ~5 yrs) are like 80-90%.

 

[sk3tch]

56% health can't be good. Both of my SATA SSD's (~10 yrs and ~5 yrs) are like 80-90%.

It’s good for 1PB of use - especially when doing intensive I/O like Chia farming.

 

[TaintedSquirrel]

Looks like the NV2's shipped from Kingston, not Walmart.

EDIT: Delivered today.