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3 HN users recommended this in 2024, in 3 comments.
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3 HN users recommended this in 2024, in 3 comments.
Each tall tick is one HN user's first recommendation. A short tick is the same user again. Click a tick to jump to the comment.
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Buy this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00OJ3UJ2S
Buy this, and stick this in that: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B089C3TZL9
I'm using these (Samsung 970 QVO) as the data drive in a couple of workstations right now. Not the fastest SSD for a number of reasons, but still a lot faster than a mechanical drive.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B089C3TZL9/
Oddly, these were ~$300 when I bought them at the end of 2023, but the price has now doubled.
Even the 870 QVO SATA drives are way more expensive than spinning rust.
https://www.amazon.com/SAMSUNG-870-QVO-SATA-MZ-77Q8T0B/dp/B0...
list price of $850 or $624 on sale for 8tb
Still way better than the M.2 NVMe drives which can be well over $1000 each.
However, these SATA drives still dominate HDDs in most metrics like random access and sustained transfer with like 560MB/sec. Not great compared to modern NVMe drives at like 7GB/sec, but for reference HDDs are usually less than half that and the random access metrics can be dire.