Hi!

2 of my drives failed recently (as well as an external drive), plus my faithful HP Proliant Gen 8 is ripe for retirement (I’m small potatoes compared to you guys).

So I bought a mini-PC (with a N100). I’m considering going all SSDs.

What are the cheapest ones? They can be slow.

Is there a “storage SSD” category?

I’ve looked at OEMs but they’re not that interesting, or I didn’t know where to look.
Aliexpress is full of fakes. As is the second hand market. Or it’s legit but as expensive as new.

Thanks for reading!

  • ShimitarEnglish
    0•13 days ago

    I usually pick the cheapest of a brand I trust. Kingston atm for my ssds.

    Don’t care, even the crappiest is way faster than what I need plus less energy hungry than mechanicals.

    I focus on size, buy the biggest I can afford according to the raid level I need. Currently have 4 x 4Tb Kingston ssds in RAID5.

    Edit: don’t buy ssds on aliexpress, don’t go that cheap… Go cheap like buy consumer level stuff not server grade stuff, but still from reputable sellers and brands.

    Yeah, would be great to buy server grade stuff, but I don’t have a server grade budget.

      • ShimitarEnglish
        0•13 days ago

        I could upgrade my requirements to server grade, but not the budget, so I would say the driving factor is budget :)

        Hand me a bunch of server grade ssds for the price of consumer and I would gladly install them.

    • @harsh3466@lemmy.mlEnglish
      0•13 days ago

      As an additional warning probably best to avoid amazon because counterfeits are just dumped in the bin with the actual mfr stuff and you could get burned there too. Buy from B&H or some other vendor that doesn’t have this practice