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The prices at Newegg for Samsung SSDs are quite amazing:<br>
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2TB SSD for $500?<br>
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Similarly for NVMe flash:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16820147691">https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16820147691</a><br>
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Maybe the home all-flash array is not that far off after all!<br>
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-Lori<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/8/18 09:43, CrankyOldBugger
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<div>Ditto on the EVOs.. pretty solid drives. I've had a few,
with no issues.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">On Thu, 8 Nov 2018 at 09:41, Benjamin Tompkins
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<div dir="ltr">I agree with Ron on this one. You pretty much
can't go wrong with any of the Samsung EVO/PRO SSDs. I
personally have a couple of the 850 and 960s in use at home.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 9:35 AM Ron Singh <<a
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<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Sorry to hear of
your SSD woes Khalid, must be a ton of read retries
causing the slow copy?<br>
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style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">We use a ton of
Samsung 860 Pro and EVO in my world for
laptops/workstations and cache devices on NAS units.
The 860 PRO with it's LMC tech is likely overkill for
an end-user situation and the prices are brutal.<br>
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style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">The 860 EVO is
the perfect blend of decent pricing and unparalleled
reliability compared to it's peers in the TLC realm.<br>
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style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">We have used
Intel, Sandisk, Crucial/Micron, and Samsung since
about 2009 and the Samsung are the ones holding up
best, only about 4-5 failures in 9 years within a
population of at least 3000 units in play. The Intel
units were the worse.<br>
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The prices online at at CC are remarkably low for
Samsung and a fair number of SSDs out there, hard to
go wrong.<br>
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<div>Thanks,<br>
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Ron Singh<br>
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<div dir="ltr">On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 11:25 PM Khalid
Baheyeldin <<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">kb@2bits.com</a>>
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<div>So, the excepted happened and a laptop with
an SSD failed. <br>
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<div>The laptop itself is OK, despite its age, but
the SSD (added in the past few years), failed.</div>
<div>First, it was a SMART error like this:</div>
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<div>Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 1 Offline
uncorrectable sectors<br>
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Device info:<br>
HP SSD S700 120GB, S/N:xxxx, FW:Q0330B1, 120 GB</div>
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<div>Then it was 3 sectors, and yesterday it was
33 sectors.</div>
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<div>I started copying the data off of the SSD to
an external USB disk. It is working, but it is
very slow. <br>
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<div>The shell command is slow when I press tab
for command completion. Most commands time out
(systemd reports several timeouts). The disk is
mounted read only.</div>
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<div>The copying is now a day and a half for a
only a few tens of GB. The target disk flickers
once every minute or so.<br>
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<div>Why is this copying too slow?</div>
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<div>Another question is what replacement SSD
should I get. Ron Singh posted a while back
about Samsung EVO 860, which are still on sale
at Canada Computers and BestBuy (ends tomorrow),
e.g.</div>
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target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=179_1229_1088&item_id=120021</a></div>
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<div>Are these still a good value? Or are there
alternatives?<br>
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<div>Khalid M. Baheyeldin<br>
<a href="http://2bits.com" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">2bits.com</a>,
Inc.<br>
Fast Reliable Drupal<br>
Drupal optimization, development,
customization and consulting.<br>
Simplicity is prerequisite for
reliability. -- Edsger W.Dijkstra<br>
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
-- anonymous<br>
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