GPUs & CPUs & Enthusiast hardware: Questions, Discussion and fanboy slap-fights - Nvidia & AMD & Intel - Separe but Equal. Intel rides in the back of the bus.

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Betonhaus said:
The M.2 interface, providing it's NVMe and not SATA, will be much faster then the SATA connection.
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I don't care about speed, I care about durability. That and because it's SATA, I don't have to worry about a future build not having a sata slot. Sata isn't going anywhere, it's a durable drive, it's what I want.
 
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Betonhaus said:
The M.2 interface, providing it's NVMe and not SATA, will be much faster then the SATA connection.
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Unless you're a poor sap who didn't know any better when he bought the drive and the nvme controller overheats or has no dram cache. Ask me how I know.
For 30 seconds it's very fast. /\__/\__/\___ is how my data transfer looks lol.
 
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WelperHelper99 said:
I don't care about speed, I care about durability. That and because it's SATA, I don't have to worry about a future build not having a sata slot. Sata isn't going anywhere, it's a durable drive, it's what I want.
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M.2 NVMe is also not going anywhere as it has established itself as the standard for PCIe storage. As it is most motherboards have it built in and that number is increasing over time.
 
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indomitable snowman said:
Unless you're a poor sap who didn't know any better when he bout the drive and the nvme controller overheats or has no dram cache. Ask me how I know.
For 30 seconds it's very fast. /\__/\__/\___ is how my data transfer looks lol.
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I literally just need it to run the OS. From what testing I've done building my friends rig, it runs plenty fast. I don't need 7450mb second speed to run windows 11, lmao. I want to keep that m.2 storage for games and programs, good shit.
 
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WelperHelper99 said:
I don't care about speed, I care about durability. That and because it's SATA, I don't have to worry about a future build not having a sata slot. Sata isn't going anywhere, it's a durable drive, it's what I want.
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Both NVME and SATA are durable. Did you really go out of your way to get SATA only 2280 ssds? The NVME counterparts are the same price if not cheaper and offer better performance.
 
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Car Won't Crank said:
Both NVME and SATA are durable. Did you really go out of your way to get SATA only 2280 ssds? The NVME counterparts are the same price if not cheaper and offer better performance.
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Welper strikes me as a person that does things....just cuz.

Wouldn't be the first time questions and reasoning are met with "I just want to", and then everyone goes on their own way lol.

@WelperHelper99 Keep doing your wacky stuff. It's all good man.
 
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Car Won't Crank said:
Both NVME and SATA are durable. Did you really go out of your way to get SATA only 2280 ssds? The NVME counterparts are the same price if not cheaper and offer better performance.
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I have 3 nvme m.2 drives and a SATA SSD you plug in with the cable. At the time it was cheaper because 3d NAND prices jumped up for M.2 drives. I could prioritize the M.2 for games and still have a separate SSD for the OS.
 
WelperHelper99 said:
I have 3 nvme m.2 drives and a SATA SSD you plug in with the cable. At the time it was cheaper because 3d NAND prices jumped up for M.2 drives. I could prioritize the M.2 for games and still have a separate SSD for the OS.
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I found out that you can literally thrash a sata SSD. my Debian server that I used to download and stream media had a 1tb sata SSD that it is installed to and downloads video torrents to before moving them to storage. It would get so bogged down and unresponsive that I moved the OS to a NVMe drive which fixed the problem. You might see some thrashing with your setup.
 
Yeah, I meant timewise. I am a "keep backups as much as possible" guy. A decade before failure sounds nice.
 
Don't quote me on that. People get lemons and some models can be more shit than others lol.

But I've seen many cases of drives sitting around for that long working just fine, as long as they're not getting hammered with writes.
 
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Yeah, I meant timewise. I am a "keep backups as much as possible" guy. A decade before failure sounds nice.
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You have to re-write them periodically otherwise the charge leaks off. Cooler/colder is better. I think some do this automatically if powered on.

But at the end of the day nailing down "lifetime" is still difficult, and every new technology needs to be evaluated.
Your best solution, as usual, is drive rotation and storage on multiple different flavors. In my case all backups still live on spinny disks with high levels of redundancy and frequent re-check cycles.

I want 1TB Optical Disks for $1. And a pony. Maybe not a pony, but the Optical disks for backups would be cool.
 
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WelperHelper99 said:
I have 3 nvme m.2 drives and a SATA SSD you plug in with the cable. At the time it was cheaper because 3d NAND prices jumped up for M.2 drives. I could prioritize the M.2 for games and still have a separate SSD for the OS.
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Put your OS on one of your NVME drives you goof. You made it sound like all you SSDs are only SATA.
 
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