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Building a new PC for my desk at work . . .
and I'm looking opinions concerning storage.
My system MUST be rock-solid reliable, and needs to last a while. My current desktop is over 6 years old! My question is: should I consider going with a solid-sate drive, or stay with a traditional HDD. Also, what brand(s) of solid-state drives have proven the most reliable. FWIW - I'll be installing Win 7 Pro 64-bit as my OS. Thanks!
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without question SSD, it will transform your experience. The best SATA flash drives are currently returning figures around 100,000 IOPS.
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What's your opinion of the 1TB Samsung 850 EVO-Series drive? Thanks again.
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I've got two 500 gig 850 evo's in my machine. Flawless so far ... they are not the best out there, but they seem reliable and good bang for the buck.
I still keep a 500gig conventional drive to back up my SSD boot drive now and then. But yeah .... you'll never go back once you start using SSD. |
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Oh, and I already back up my current desktop to a 1 TB WD USB external HDD on a regular basis. Great advice! Thanks once again.
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I am in complete agreement with others, SSD is the future and it is here now. A site I respect as an ex IT analyst, says good things about the Samsung products as well as SanDisk. SanDisk was one of the pioneers of solid state memory so they have a lot of cred in my opinion.
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I use an ssd for the OS and programs often used and a hdd for archive stuff. In this case a WD green 1 tb but if your serious you could use a WD red NAS disk for storage. As usual you should also backup whatever thru a NAS or a portable harddrive stored at other location.
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You say it needs to be rock-solid reliable. Then at the very least you should have 2 mirrored drives for when one fails, but more drives and higher level of RAID would be better. If you have the money, splurge on a Drobo and never worry.
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