Bargain Samsung 2.5" 1TB SSD on Amazon

skelters · Post by **skelters** » Wed Apr 10, 2019 4:08 pm

If anyone is looking for some cheap SSD this is a bargain at the moment...

There's faster SSD's but needed an upgrade on the SATA drive in the laptop. Already have a Samsung 1TB 970 PRO V- NAND M.2.

Samsung MZ-76E1T0B/EU 1 TB 860 EVO Sata III 64L V NAND Solid State Drive https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B078WST5RK/ ... RCbR97F7EG

Currently £102.

mmm-five · Post by **mmm-five** » Wed Apr 10, 2019 5:02 pm

They’re really good value at the moment.

Am still very happy with the 4 older 850 Evo drives I’ve got in a Thunderbolt 2 RAID enclosure on my home Mac.

I just wish the associated Thunderbolt drives/enclosures would drop in price as much, so that I could get a couple more

buzyg · Post by **buzyg** » Wed Apr 10, 2019 5:08 pm

Tis indeed good value. No longer have a computer though. Android has kind of made them redundant.

skelters · Post by **skelters** » Wed Apr 10, 2019 6:06 pm

mmm-five wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2019 5:02 pm They’re really good value at the moment.

Am still very happy with the 4 older 850 Evo drives I’ve got in a Thunderbolt 2 RAID enclosure on my home Mac.

I just wish the associated Thunderbolt drives/enclosures would drop in price as much, so that I could get a couple more

What is this M A C thing you speak of?!

Going to add another 970 PRO M.2 to the laptop and raid them. Supposedly 3 x read speed is gained according to MSI.

mmm-five · Post by **mmm-five** » Wed Apr 10, 2019 7:25 pm

skelters wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2019 6:06 pm What is this M A C thing you speak of?!

It's like a PC, but with a roof

I've used Macs since 1989, and currently have 2 iMacs (small one for travelling, large one for home use - both similar speed/spec other than the screen size) as I can easily dual-boot into Windows or MacOS as the client's requirements demand.

I can't trust the client to provide a machine configured for the work I'm contracted for - unless I've specifically been asked to set up the design office for them - so started taking my own machine to sites about 20 years ago.

I'm not averse to using Windows, and see both it and MacOS simply as tools for my job. Some things are faster on MacOS (Adobe/Quark), some faster on Windows (MS Office...Excel especially).

Using the specific operating system and version of whichever program the client needs me to use means my output can be 100% compatible without having to go through every file, line by line, to check.

Fast drives are useful when I'm working in InDesign/Quark on sections of a catalogue that are over 2gb each (initially with all the original artwork at full resolution whilst I do the cropping/masking) - the TB2 enclosure in RAID 10 config gives me about 700/500mbps read/write, but the internal SSD gives me 1900/2400 read/write.

Other clients simply want me to do their modelling and automatic report generation in Excel.

skelters · Post by **skelters** » Thu Apr 11, 2019 1:49 pm

I'm on windows most of the time and Red Hat too.

Chris_D · Post by **Chris_D** » Thu Apr 11, 2019 2:07 pm

I tried SSD's in the first 2 nodes of my render farm but i had all sorts of problems with them with an eventual complete failure of a raid config.
Went back to WD black sata2's and all back to normal.

To be fair, i think it was mostly a software issue (V Ray renderer via Rhino and 3DStudiomax) and not having ssd-optimised read/write config/regimens.

But basically ssd's are crap when used for rendered animations.

mmm-five · Post by **mmm-five** » Fri Apr 12, 2019 12:05 pm

The 2TB one is on offer at exactly double the price now - £204

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