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> Drop in a 1TB SSD for ~$200 and you're good to go. O_o ...For some reason, my mental model of SSD rates was stuck in 2014 at $0.50/GB. As I type this, my lap
by LeifCarrotson 8y ago
> Drop in a 1TB SSD for ~$200 and you're good to go.
O_o ...For some reason, my mental model of SSD rates was stuck in 2014 at $0.50/GB. As I type this, my laptop is busy moving a VM image over to the NAS to free up some space on my 256 GB SSD.
But no, according to https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/internal-hard-drive/ https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/internal-hard-drive/ and https://pcpartpicker.com/products/internal-hard-drive/ https://pcpartpicker.com/products/internal-hard-drive/, you can indeed find SSDs at $0.20/GB (the low end being currently dominated by Crucial MX500 drives at $0.18/GB). Looks like it's long past time to upgrade!
- opencl 8y agoYou can get even cheaper, the Micron 1100 2TB drives are only $0.15/GB at $300.
- ta658567959 8y agoAfter my last SSD died, I'd have a hard time trusting SSD's again for backup purposes (this is probably 8-10 years ago though I suppose). It was more the way it failed - I had one or two boots where a few errors started to pop up, and then the next boot, nothing - the disk had disappeared to the BIOS' eyes and any other tools - just dead as a doornail with no easy way of getting any of the data off it. I assume they've improved in that regard, or are spinning platters still a safer proposition over the long term?
- mmt 8y ago8-10 years ago is a very long time, especially for what was still a relatively new, low-volume product in the consumer market. > I assume they've improved in that regard, or are spinning platters still a safer proposition over the long term? I don't think you need to assume..just check out what statistics are out there. Sadly, I don't know of anyone publishing numbers for consumer SSDs like Backblaze does for spinning disks.