I want to upgrade some of my older machines with some new, high(er) capacity SSDs (SATA and nvme). I don’t need super high speeds, just something in the TB range in terms of storage.

Problem is, there’s so much garbage out there, I can’t really tell, which SSD is inexpensive and reliable and which is just utter garbage.

I thought about buying new, but last gen Samsung/WD SSDs.

Intenso and Fanxiang both seem to have been around for a few years, but reviews seem to be mixed.

  • Faceman🇦🇺@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I’ve had good luck with WD Blue NVME (SN550)

    I’ve put several of those into machines at work and have had years without an issue. I’m also running a WD Blue SN550 1TB in my server as one of the caches, 25000 hours power on time, >100TB written, temperatures way higher than they should be and still over 93% health remaining according to smart.

    • Moonrise2473English
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      8 months ago

      I’m also using that drive but it likes to stay toasty, it’s always in a 60-65° C range even with a low activity

      I don’t really like that. Bought an heatsink and it improved a bit