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I've been thinking about building a NAS build and in my research I encountered this product: ICY DOCK 24 bay 2.5 inch hot swap to 3x 5.25 inch bay ($~800) This is intriguing; in the same space that I could fit five 3.5" hard drives with some products, this fits 24 2.5" drives, this is half a magnitude higher in density! Going a step further, any standard mid tower case with 9 5.25 inch bays could fit three of these, this makes the case capable of holding 72 2.5 inch drives! This is utter madness! (example case: Old Antec 900, though I'm sure newer ones exist.) Using the Samsung 870 QVO 8TB 2.5 inch model would grant roughly 576TB of storage, costing ~$25,200. ($349.99 on amazon) This is a huge amount of money, but it appears to be pretty fair for SSDs. But it's not done yet! 144 drives might be achievable by using 72 dual m.2 to 2.5 inch adapters like this one: StarTech.com S322M225R M.2 to SATA Adapter - Dual Slot this would allow for a petabyte to be stored. At present on PcPart Picker, the cheapest m.2 2280 8TB drive costs $759.00 a piece. This means that you could get a petabyte of storage inside of a mid-tower case for the mere cost of $109,296 in storage. A similar drive, the MP600 PRO NH states 10.9 Watts on its webpage, so the power budget would be 1,596.6 Watts, plus overhead from all other components. This is probably the hardest to accommodate part. Overall, the system would require: 24 SAS ports 2000 Watt PSU (guessing on overhead) 144 8TB M.2 drives Mid Tower Case A budget of $120,000 (rough estimate) To get: 1,152 TB of storage maximum. What do you think of this? It seems like it could work and with the power issue resolved it might be a really interesting video! Edit: I realized a much cheaper option exists here, this is not SAS which could make it pretty difficult to troubleshoot cable issues. Athena Power BP-15827SAC
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im planning to buy a sata ssd for game drive. these drive have a similar prices in my country. but i confused because the samsung one gave far more TBW endurance than mx500. what is your opinion? which one should I choose?
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Hi there once again im asking for your help lol, I have a laptop which supports m.2 and a hdd, im running only a ssd for now (240gb) and only have 130 left and I recently found out my laptop does support usb 3.0 but only on 2 ports. My plan: Get a 2.5 inch hdd 1tb Or a 3.5 inch 3tb hdd with a dock for it + power and connect it to the laptop via a usb 3.0 port. My questions are: Will the 3.5 inch hdd be slower than the internal hdd if both will be probs 5400 rpm/ 7200rpm for the 3.5 inch (if im lucky lol). Will the 3.5 inch hdd last less than the internal one since its connected via usb 3.0 whilst still being in a safe place? Will the 3.5 inch hdd work as an external hard to other pc's and be read and used? Thankyou for reading and hopefully you guys can help me out.
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Hi, i have a laptop with 120gb m.2 sata ssd as os(:C) and a 500gb 5400rpm slow toshiba hdd(:D) as secondary drive. The old drives often cause fps spikes in open world games(GTAV) and sometimes in NFS2015 the world just went black because of the slow read speeds. (i guess?) I want to get the seagate firecuda drive to replace the slow secondary drive. Q1. will changing it to the firecuda sshd can help me? (for all the shutters) Q2. If I get the firecuda and a external 2.5" enclosure bay, how do I clone the old drive to new drive? I have lots of programs and application in that (:D) drive. I dont think I can just copy and paste it.
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Last year I built my first PC. Asus Z170-A MB 16GB DDR4 3000 RAM 1TB SSD for my OS In a Corsair 760T case After watching video after video on building a PC, pulled the trigger and built my own. I had this crazy idea I'd attach some HDD's into a RAID back in the day and I set it to RAID in the UEFI before installing Windows 10. With the case having 2.5 drive caddy's - would I be out of my mind to think two Seagate Barracuda ST2000LM015 in RAID 0 would work? I have no idea what to look for in product details to see if this can do RAID(if there are any limitations for HDD and/or using "laptop" drives, I dunno) My initial thoughts were some WD20EZRZ WD Blues, I saw the 2TB drives are set at 5400 RPM and saw the Barracudas are the same - why I thought it might be do-able. Currently have the 3.5 drive bays out of the case, to show off the room with that acrylic window and all. My plan is that this is going to tide me over until I build a NAS - probably by the end of the year. Thanks
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So am looking though pc part picker for my next build, and my friend that knows alot about computers when i first told him i was going to do a new build, he told me to get a Samsung evo 850 last summer, now yesterday i brought this back up with him and he said to change it..... I've found a few m.2 sticks but i am not sure what ones are better , and also my price pcpart picker is giving me (also heres the current evo https://pcpartpicker.com/product/9Q7CmG/samsung-internal-hard-drive-mz75e120bam Base Total: $1671.40 Mail-in Rebates: -$55.00 Shipping: $9.98 Total: $1626.38 I do want to keep it at least under $1800 here are the other choices https://pcpartpicker.com/product/ZNBrxr/samsung-960-evo-250gb-m2-2280-solid-state-drive-mz-v6e250 https://pcpartpicker.com/product/dpH48d/sandisk-internal-hard-drive-sd8sn8u128g1122 https://pcpartpicker.com/product/py98TW/corsair-force-mp500-120gb-m2-2280-solid-state-drive-cssd-f120gbmp500 https://pcpartpicker.com/product/8WZ2FT/samsung-internal-hard-drive-mzn5e250bw
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My laptop broke and I'm building my first pc soon, is it safe to use the laptops sata hard drive on the new pc, and do I need adapters if my case has 2.5" slots? I tried googling this but got very varied answers. Some people have said it's fine while some claim that it's dangerous and has bricked their drives because laptop hdds are 5v and the power cables are 12v.
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Does anyone know of anything that can hold a 2.5in drive that will make it the same size and plug placement as a 3.5in one? I have a 1TB hard drive that fits the 2.5in form factor, from my laptop which i pulled out, I want to use it as another 1TB Scratch drive, but my front-panel drive caddy only accepts 3.5in hard drives. Anything is helpful, preferably cheap with no active components to slow down file speeds (Given the connector is the same, it could just be a piece of solid plastic with some slots to screw it in) | Thanks
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So I'm slowly gathering parts for a NAS build using an older i3 based mATX system. Just bought a new quieter cooler and case fan, got half the RAM I need at a good price and now I have to start thinking about the drives. I thought that would be the easy part, get some WD Red drives and be done. but then I came across these 4 bay 2.5" hot-swap 5.25" adapters. That would be a great thing to have for a home NAS, easy access for changing/upgrading drives and activity lights for each drive. So now I have 2 questions: 1 Has anyone here used 2.5" WD Red drives that could give some insight into their performance or thermals vs. 3.5" models? and 2. Has anyone heard anything about WD releasing larger capacity 2.5" Red drives? As much as I'd like the performance of a larger disk array the cost of the eight 1TB 2.5" I need is double the same capacity of 3.5" drives not to mention the cost of the two cages I'd need. I know I can get 5.25" to 3X3.5" cages, but then I'd need to get a new case that has 4X5.25 bays too. Basically just some general advice or thoughts on using 2.5" vs 3.5" NAS drives.
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I'm trying to make the smallest and largest capacity storage for downloading video footage in remote locations. I have an AKiTiO Thunder 3 quad mini (TB3 Quad 2.5" enclosure) Are there quad m2 adapters that fit in a single 2.5" drive slot? Can you RAID m2 drives?
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I'm looking for a 2Tb 2.5" (9mm top since I'm using a tray bay). I put my eyes on the Spinpoint M9T series from Seagate/Samsung, personally I own a ST2000LM003, which AFAIK seems to be PMR, now that release went along the 004 and 006, so I assume they are PMR as well but any confirmation is welcome. I think the difference with the 003 are some features like "Secure ™ Model 1" and "Secure FIPS 140-2 Model 1", just as the newer models ST2000LM007, 009 and 010. I would like to know if these newer (March '16 though) models (007 and on) are PMR as well since I think the others are a bit old already (2014) to be a safe buy.
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I've done a lot of research for this and I've come to no conclusion. I need this for a msi gs63VR, which are known for having very loud hard drives. It'll be used in quiet classrooms so that will cause unwanted attention. I need a 1tb drive too, so ssd's are out of the question because since i just bought the laptop, I am flat broke. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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Hello my friends, I was just wondering if an M.2 or a regular SSD really made a difference for a PC Build, as I want to build with an M.2, because M.2 SSDs seem to perform much better from what I've been seeing in benchmark tests. So if anyone could help better explain this that would be great. Thanks! Adios amigos, A Silly Goose
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Hello, I am thinking of getting a 850 evo 1TB SSD. I have done a lot of research, but I do not know if I should get the 2.5 or m.2 model. I have a m.2 slot with 4x PCIe at 36GB/s, so I am pretty sure it is compatible. The M.2 is a little more costly and people said that is because it doesn't need wires. My case does not have a window and is not cluttered with wires, so I do not care if I have to put it one or two more wires. Thank you to all who respond. *I am a avid gamer and graphic designer. *The reason I am getting a SSD is because my hard drive is starting to wear out, giving me a lot of BSOD recently and the IOPS is horrid, only being 100. Also some games, Payday 2 in particular, crash a lot from my hard drive being too slow. (Or at least that is what people said and whenever I am playing it my hard drive is always closed to maxed out.)
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Kinda dumb question but still im interested in which hard drive is more robust 2.5 inch or 3.5 inch if is used in desktop pc for example
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Hi people My Dell Precision M4400 which I've had since 2009 could do with a SSD as the original 5,400rpm is a little slow. I've upgraded the Ram to 6Gb. The Laptop will mostly be used for Web browsing & old DOS and windows gaming (Quadro FX770m) The laptop only uses SATA 3Gbs So which one of these SSDs should I go for, Reliability is the main priority , Then speed. I'm surprised that the old 5,400rpm HD lasted this long, can today's SSDs last half as long (5 yrs) I'll be happy Kingston A400 (250gb) £25.00 Samsung EVO 860 (250gb) £45.00 I don't mind spending extra on the Samsung but because it's a 2009 laptop would the Kingston be OK or is it cheaper because it's not so reliable If today's SSDs are not as reliable HD then I'm quite happy to stick in a new 250gb WD 2.5" 7,200 rpm HD as reliability comes first than speed
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Hi Everyone, So I bought a TUrbo-X ZUB-XPSSD HDD / SSD docking station today. This little beast can contain 2 pcs of 2.5" HDDs, and has hotswap functionality. Pretty neat. I was so excited about it that one tiny fact slipped my attention: To be able to use it, I would need a 19-pin connection on the motherboard. Given the fact that I have a laptop, I don't have that available. The only cable they included is a female 19-pin connector, which "comes out of the box", literally speaking. My questions may sound a little silly (if not a lot): 1) Is there a legit converter for this cable? 2) If I buy a 19-pin to USB converter cable, would the thing work if I just plug it into my laptop? I have an Acer Helios 500 (Intel version). I have attached pictures which show the front and the backside of the device, and its cable. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!
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Hello guys, need a recommendation on ssd brands that I'm actually thinking of buying. The plan right now is I have a mobo H370n-WIFI from Gigabyte and there's 2 nvme slot for it which is 1 in front and another at the back. I'm planning to have 2 nvme and 1 2.5 ssd to maximise the capacity so to never upgrade have storage issues again. So it would be configured with C (system files with shows currently watching), D (for Steam games) and E (for old shows/movies that will be watching soon). The choices brand of nvme which are PNY CS3030 and ADATA XPG SX8200. In my place they are a few dollars difference so want to know if the extra dollars is worth the life duration. Not going for Samsung nvme since they costed double the price of the mentioned above. The sata ssd brands are WD Blue and SanDisk Ultra. The 2 nvme and 1 ssd are both 1 TB each. So I need your opinions/suggestions why the 2 brands for nvme and ssd are better than the other.
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I hot swap a lot of 2.5 and 3.5 inch disk and I never use more than 2 hot swap disk at the time. I am looking foward to accelerate my hot swap process without connecting those disk manually with cables in my case. I have 2 free 5.25 inch bay available on my PC case. I was thinking of getting a 3.5 to 5.25 enclosure (2x) and a 2.5 to 3.5 enclosure (2x) that way I have the possibility of having a mix of 3.5 and 2.5 disk in the PC as hot swap devices.My question is the following: does StarTech 25SAT35HDD fit inside of StarTech HSB1SATSASBA ?? I am not exactly sure since the 2.5 to 3.5 enclosure is just a bit bigger than a normal 3.5 hdd. If it doesn't fit do you know which 2.5 to 3.5 enclosure would fit in the 3.5 to 5.25 enclosure ? (No screw, only clip, slide or whatever that require no tool at all)
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I hot swap a lot of 2.5 and 3.5 inch disk and I never use more than 2 hot swap disk at the time. I am looking foward to accelerate my hot swap process without connecting those disk manually with cables in my case. I have 2 free 5.25 inch bay available on my PC case. I was thinking of getting a 3.5 to 5.25 enclosure (2x) and a 2.5 to 3.5 enclosure (2x) that way I have the possibility of having a mix of 3.5 and 2.5 disk in the PC as hot swap devices. My question is the following: does StarTech 25SAT35HDD fit inside of StarTech HSB1SATSASBA ?? I am not exactly sure since the 2.5 to 3.5 enclosure is just a bit bigger than a normal 3.5 hdd. If it doesn't fit do you know which 2.5 to 3.5 enclosure would fit in the 3.5 to 5.25 enclosure ? (No screw, only clip, slide or whatever that require no tool at all)
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I plan building my very first PC and i need some help deciding for what storage to go for. Firstly i would like some clarification regarding DRAM in SSDs. Linus mentioned how Dram-less ssds were worse than mechanical hard drives. That stuck with me and whenever encountering cheap ssd i make it a point to ask whether it has dram. but what about NVME M.2? do they also have have/work in the same way? Do they also have Dram? I have found some really cheap M.2s online and i just wanted to get some clarifications. Secondly which is better in terms of price to performance Nvme or 2.5" ssds? Thirdly, which is better for a first build?
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I have been wondering for a while why SSD are always 2.5"? Wouldn't it make sense to make them 3.5" to fit standard and use the extra space to make them hold more information?
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Hi all, I just purchased a 1Tb Seagate Firecuda hybrid drive for storage. P/n ST1000LX015. It sits in expansion slot of my docking station, a Lenovo ultrabase 3. When transferring my Steam library over from the internal SSD in my laptop, it seemed that it was taking quite a while... so I tried installing a steam game with the target folder on the Seagate drive, and the setup moved so slowly on the screen that says 'allocating disc space' that I had to cancel it. Transfers are dipping down to portable drive speeds, and the transfers off of the SSHD are weird... I'm not familiar with SSHD's, but the transfer rates seem both low, and erratic, compared to a regular HDD. The drive is; -- A single partition, formatted last night. -- Test file is a 4.5Gb folder of photos, simply cutting and pasting between the drive and my desktop. -- Drive is installed using the appropriate enclosure(not via usb) Here's a Crystal Disc Mark score A file transfer from SSD ---> SSHD And finally, three different completely different transfers from SSHD ---> SSD p.s. I didn't specifically buy a hybrid for storage purposes. I'm aware they're more of an advantage as boot drives, it was simply a good deal and the expectation was that it would perform on-par with a regular drive.
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My seagate Firecuda 1tb 2.5" have a insane huge seek error rate and command timeout raw value ( Seagate ST1000LX015 ) seek error rate : 0x20A02D1E5 ( 8757945076 ) commmand timeout : 0x3FF03FF03FF ( 4393818588159 ) Total power on hours of 4379 only compare to my hgst HTS541010A9E662 it is just way too high seek error rate : 0x0 ( 0 ) commmand timeout : N/A what happened? is that most of the seagate drive have such a huge value? ( my another 12000 hours seagate drive have less than this one 3.5" HDD ) should I replace it with a HGST / WD drive? DriveDxReport2018-06-17_22-52-34-487.txt DriveDxReport2018-06-17_22-56-04-821.txt