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Cheap SSD as a hard drive replacement

GloriousPain
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Will still be faster than a HDD and more reliable, but they switched the NAND to a slower type throughout the drive's production.

 

I would still buy it.

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A friend of mines HDD is going bad making terrible noises and he and I fear it's dieing slowly and gonna die soon; He has a 250GB SSD for a boot drive though so he's not in too bad of a spot on that but he's considering getting a cheapo SSD to fill the void He's thinking of a Kingston SSDNOWv300 480GB model that he can get for just under $200; I've only heard bad about these drives but compared to an HDD just how bad could it be?

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Will still be faster than a HDD and more reliable, but they switched the NAND to a slower type throughout the drive's production.

 

I would still buy it.

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Will still be faster than a HDD and more reliable, but they switched the NAND to a slower type throughout the drive's production.

 

I would still buy it.

Thanks but he actually found a Crucial MX100 500GB for cheaper shortly after posting (He's getting it for $160) he's a lucky bastard he actually works for Amazon so he finds stuff like this often >.<

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