Starrbuck
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I'm in the market for a 1tb SSD and I'm curious:
At a $50 discount for the M550 vs the EVO 850 (330 vs. 380), is the extra performance and warranty worth it? I'm inclined to believe the real-world performance doesn't justify the extra cost, but I'm certainly no expert on SSDs.
Is the M550 a big upgrade over the M500?
Kinda bummed I missed out on this yesterday. I hope this goes back on sale again soon.
You'll probably get the chance one way or another. Seems like the bottom is starting to fall out on SSD prices.
I picked up a Samsung 850 EVO 500GB the other day from NewEgg for $170, so although it's not 1TB all in one place, the price is nearly the same on a per GB basis.
Anyway, these deals seem to be coming up more frequently and everyone who's ever made flash or DRAM seems to be in the game now, so it's probably time for a price war leading to a SSD manufacturer shakeout.
I hope so. I want to put my frequently played Steam games on a 2TB RAID0 SSD array sooo badly.
RAID0 adds latency to SSDs tho..
For me I wouldn't buy another M550 no matter how cheap it is. I loved the M500, bought a ton of them since they were the first Self Encrypting Drive I could get my hands on, was excited for the faster and slightly bigger M550, but I have had so many of them die it's not even funny. The M550 Warranty replacement they sent me literally died on the first restore from backup.
(12 1TB drives ordered 7 bad, 1 bad twice)
I have yet to call them and send it back. The Samsung 850 has been working great so far.
Yes, my storage costs way more than the server they are going into for work, but man that box can do the SQL.
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"They're a funny thing, SSD benchmarks. You can run synthetics all day long and create these unrealistically demanding workloads that make solid-state storage look one way. Then, you can tinker around with real-world metrics that paint another picture entirely."Hmm, how much?
For me I wouldn't buy another M550 no matter how cheap it is. I loved the M500, bought a ton of them since they were the first Self Encrypting Drive I could get my hands on, was excited for the faster and slightly bigger M550, but I have had so many of them die it's not even funny. The M550 Warranty replacement they sent me literally died on the first restore from backup.
(12 1TB drives ordered 7 bad, 1 bad twice)
I have yet to call them and send it back. The Samsung 850 has been working great so far.
Yes, my storage costs way more than the server they are going into for work, but man that box can do the SQL.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
For me I wouldn't buy another M550 no matter how cheap it is. I loved the M500, bought a ton of them since they were the first Self Encrypting Drive I could get my hands on, was excited for the faster and slightly bigger M550, but I have had so many of them die it's not even funny. The M550 Warranty replacement they sent me literally died on the first restore from backup.
(12 1TB drives ordered 7 bad, 1 bad twice)
I have yet to call them and send it back. The Samsung 850 has been working great so far.
Yes, my storage costs way more than the server they are going into for work, but man that box can do the SQL.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
If this was for work(self-employed or otherwise) and I MUST use SSD instead of sticking with hella slow HDD, I'd spend the extra money for enterprise level SSD instead of gambling with my work. Then again that's just me and I'm still using HDD for my laptop with the importatn data on it. Of course still got an Intel enterprise SSD just sitting there waiting to be installed too..
The machine that this is used for is literally wiped and rebuilt every week with a new database load. It's not worth the extra money, when I can just replace the drives. Normally I would go enterprise SSD and PCI SSD at that, but for this load, it doesn't make sense...
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$304.99 now
What's the difference between the M500 and M550?
I'm in the market for a 1tb SSD and I'm curious:
At a $50 discount for the M550 vs the EVO 850 (330 vs. 380), is the extra performance and warranty worth it? I'm inclined to believe the real-world performance doesn't justify the extra cost, but I'm certainly no expert on SSDs.
What's the difference between the M500 and M550?
At this point all my internal drives are ssd. I'm to the point of wanting to upgrade at least one of my external drives. Can anyone recommend a usb 3 external enclosure that has been tested to provide high performance with ssds?