The Best Storage 2019: Solid State, HDD, External & NAS

[fktech]

Anone using all SSDs in a NAS? Thoughts?

 

[QuantumPhysics]

Samsung demands a premium for their SSD drives but because they crank them out so quickly, it kinda helps their prices drop.

I am used to purchasing CRUCIAL Sata SSD...I've had a few of them and not a single one ever gave me an issue.

Microcenter has a Crucial 1TB M.2 for $104 which will probably drop in price by summer.

Samsung isn't far behind with M.2 less than $150.

Cheapest I've seen is Inland M.2 and Sata SSD which can both be had at 1TB for less than $100.

 

[wiyosaya]

I work at a hardware store at service and seen a lot of these WD red fail so.... as for the rest +1

After being very happy with Seagate HDDs for many years, I bought a WD. I am not sure if it was a RED or not, but it was one of their "color" drives like the RED. It ran so hot that I figure I could have fried eggs on it. IIRC, it failed and WD replaced it with a slightly larger drive. I did not want to wait for the replacement, so I went back to an equivalent Seagate, and dumped the replacement WD on e-bay. The Seagate runs substantially cooler and I have had no problems with it. Never again WD.

 

[Christiaaan]

I use Synology DiskStation DS218 at home, to watch movies from it.

Unfortunately, most of 4K content fails to playback properly, the system isn't fast enough for it.

This is something I would advise potential buyers to consider.

you have to have the network built for it, 10g nics would do you wonders

 

[Christiaaan]

Anone using all SSDs in a NAS? Thoughts?

Not worth it at the moment. Unless you are doing direct rendering on the the NAS. You'd benefit more getting HDDs and running a good network backbone at your place.

 

[VitalyT]

you have to have the network built for it, 10g nics would do you wonders

I don't think that my 1Gbit Ethernet is the bottleneck. When I take a huge 4K file, put it onto a slow USB drive, and connect it directly to the TV, it plays without stuttering. Therefore, I suspect it may be the CPU or memory in DS218, or both. Hard to know, really.

 

[fktech]

Not worth it at the moment. Unless you are doing direct rendering on the the NAS. You'd benefit more getting HDDs and running a good network backbone at your place.

Thanks!

 

[JamesSWD]

SSDs are still too expensive for me. I just bought a WD Black 2 TB hard drive for $114. When an SSD can match this, I'll switch to them. Until then my mechanical hard drives are still going strong. I do have one 120 GB SSD for my OS, that's it. Anyone remember the claims that SSDs would soon be in the price range of mechanical drives? Yeah right, quite a few years later and claims are still BS. The makers of the SSD don't want to let go of their profit margins. You know good and damn well an SSD has got to be cheaper to produce than a mechanical hard drive, yet prices are still out a sight. BS I say.

I've been running 2 WD Black 750MB drives in a RAID1 for the past 10 years in a PC that's been running 24/7 all that time. I almost never shut her down, just occasional reboots, and her once a year tear down for a good cleaning inside. It's one of my main work PC's, so it gets driven hard for code development, graphics design, web surfing, software testing, and all the other usual stuff. Damn good drives that have never hiccup'd although they've been through Windows 7, 8, and 10.

 

[Bullwinkle M]

Samsung 8XX Pro series of SATA SSD's have the best compatibility and speed under ALL conditions I have yet encountered

TLC drives like the Crucial MX500 require too much power and are too slow for use with all operating systems

When powering the MX500 from a USB port running Win2Go or Linux, the Crucial causes random lockups, reboots and causes the BIOS to not find the drive on the next boot

This problem is randomly intermittent with the 250GB MX500 and a constant problem on every boot when using the 500GB MX500 (Yet both drives are rated @ 5V / 1.7 Amps)

TLC drives also require caching software to get the best performance but you risk losing data during a sudden power loss and the caching software only works with Windows 7-10

Samsung 840/850 and 860 Pro drives are MLC, use less power than the Crucial, cause less power related issues and are compatible with more operating systems while maintaining full speed without the need for caching software

I cannot recommend any TLC drives for those who require stability and speed under all conditions

Bullwinkle J Moose

 

[Stryder007]

I bought an 860EVO a month or so ago (Have not installed yet). How do I tell if it is M.2 version? I don't see it on the box. I have an ASUS X455Lj and can not find any info as to whether it will fit, I do not want to tear the laptop apart and find it won't fit. Any one have any tips?

 

[Markoni35]

Did you accidentally forget to mention AData SX8200, or maybe you didn't even know it exists?

AData is a lot cheaper than Samsung, while offering approximately the same performance. Here's the comparison:

https://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Compa...-SX8200-Pro-NVMe-PCIe-M2-1TB/m497261vsm638791

 

[Babbel13]

If you are using a desktop just use a HDD for storing documents, photos and music and also to make a backup of that data. It's much cheaper and you won't notice much difference when loading a picture or song. Backing up will only transfer new files so that is fairly fast as well.

I use a SATA SSD and an NVMe M.2 SSD drive for Windows and programs. As stated above I have HDD for file storage. works great.

 

[Michael Lindo]

The 970 Evo Plu is solid. Not always as fast as the 3200mb/s, but still a good drive.

 

[fktech]

Slow but steady improvements over time.