kinda amazed I had the premonition of this and set up the OS on a RAID 1 array distributed over every single drive so at least the system still boots
Not a fan of the M.2 thing. Fragile if you have to move it to other boxes. Much prefer 2.5" form factor w/plastic enclosure.
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Linked both SATA and M.2 variants since they're the same price for these (29 cents / GB). These are SATA over M.2 rather than the fancy NVMe 960 EVO / PRO so the only real reason to prefer them is saving a bit of space including fitting them into current generation laptops.
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they don't have 2 TB NVMe drives, or I think I would've upgraded my laptop to one
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Have one in this workstation! https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/memory-storage/solid-state-drives/ssd-960-pro-m-2-2tb-mz-v6p2t0bw/ … 960 PRO has a fairly significant premium over 960 EVO and they don't have a 2TB EVO though.
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$1300 holy shit what's this about PRO and EVO?
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Can see the premium from https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/memory-storage/solid-state-drives/ssd-960-evo-m-2-1tb-mz-v6e1t0bw/ … vs. https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/memory-storage/solid-state-drives/ssd-960-pro-m-2-1tb-mz-v6p1t0bw/ …. PRO drive is faster (3200 MB/s read -> 3500, 1900 MB/s write -> 2100, 380000 deep queue read IOPS -> 440000, etc.) with 5 year warranty vs. 3, significantly higher write endurance, bit lower power use.
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Paranoid about having drives die which was half the reason for getting it, but also only have a single PCIe x4 M.2 slot and there's no 2TB 960 EVO. Well past 1TB so would have ended up needing to use SATA SSDs again already.
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They have the PRO distinction even for the non-NVMe 850 SSD. The PRO seems aimed at workstation / server usage where you're still buying consumer style hardware. The premium is mostly for them being longer lasting / more reliable on average.
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Have some really expensive hardware right now... but endless AOSP / Chromium / LLVM builds really justifies spending even more. Unfortunately, Intel totally screwed up the enthusiast CPU line this year by being cheap and not making proper integrated heat spreaders anymore.
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