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New Seagate Consumer SSD

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2018 12:34 pm
by SantaFeJoe
Not the fastest, but might be a good backup drive for an economy price:

Seagate SSD

Joe

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2018 1:43 pm
by E.J. Peiker
A little on the slowish side but a great price and still about 4 times faster than a traditional HD.  Although if I were building a computer today I would not use a traditional SSD, I'd use an M.2 SSD which are WAY WAY WAY faster.

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Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2018 3:06 pm
by signgrap
E.J. Peiker wrote:A little on the slowish side but a great price and still about 4 times faster than a traditional HD.  Although if I were building a computer today I would not use a traditional SSD, I'd use an M.2 SSD which are WAY WAY WAY faster.
How much more do you pay for that speed? - about double if my quick check is correct. 
But still not too bad a price $100 vs $200 for 500GB.

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2018 8:07 pm
by E.J. Peiker
M.2 is definitely more expensive but the performance is in a different universe.

Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2018 11:07 am
by pdschu
What about U.2 drives? Are these the ones we know as standard SSDs?

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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2018 12:42 pm
by E.J. Peiker
pdschu wrote:What about U.2 drives? Are these the ones we know as standard SSDs?
No, U.2 is a new multilane PCI interface that drives can be attached to.  It's not mainstream but has some advantages, mainly a smaller footprint on the motherboard.  U.2 drives are drives that plug directly into this interface - they do look a little like traditional SSDs.  Traditional SSDs are SATA SSDs

Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2018 5:41 pm
by Wildflower-nut
whose M 2 drives do you like

Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2018 11:54 am
by E.J. Peiker
Samsung