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Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2022 14:15:28 No.1240344 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>1240362 >>1240407 >>1240863 >>1240865

whats a good inexpensive ssd? is something like this good? https://www.ebay.com/itm/313953234436?hash=item4919122e04:g:~MsAAOSwyd9iVNL9&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAA4H3E6j62iivjic%2BaI2QsZo%2BWdR23dSJzA%2Fc3hwiNwtGzlczzDPJLNllCGbaiGCnnOBf5Z8uniFSdxvGammJFFPz%2FIEfXbjNpLenEs4XmFg5jSg%2F5MrOsUbFghltIfMwwJW%2BjaJ%2FRq8eoH3pMXn%2BCi3Yy7XL9vmtWgkHscaFc1ror2w54eXfsqO8ttBk1OIZSNm5yGpPwuuS%2B8E9Tuv%2FF1j1qFF8PwCNg%2FcoBJdNzlPYO8jrBmlVahZH8Qtfrb8ixATQfX8%2B324QLpximzmp4EX8dGMVeBb2OW3oiwl1vqxzN%7Ctkp%3ABFBMwJGVn8lg

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2022 15:11:22 No.1240362 Report

Quoted By: >>1240363 >>1240383

>>1240344
It's probably fine, but:
- don't buy off eBay unless it's the eBay storefront of a big reputable company
- don't get a 2.5" SATA SSD if you have an M.2 slot for NVMe.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2022 15:15:10 No.1240363 Report

Quoted By: >>1240372

>>1240362
im going to be using it as an external drive

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2022 15:42:56 No.1240372 Report

Quoted By: >>1240381

>>1240363
Then you probably shouldn't get an internal drive.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2022 16:04:05 No.1240381 Report

Quoted By: >>1240383

>>1240372
the internal drives are cheaper so I was just going to use a sata to usb adapter

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2022 16:27:36 No.1240383 Report

Quoted By: >>1240395 >>1240411

>>1240362
I come with the polar opposite advice on every point this anon makes.

Your linked SSD is sketchy as hell, unbranded storage from guangzhou screams to me USB 2.0 speed flash memory with falsified controller information burned on.
Buying used or new eBay SSDs is fine as long as the product isn't a fake. I prefer buying lightly used equipment from north american sellers.
NVMe speeds aren't that important, while nice the price will be higher

>>1240381
I did this with a micron 1100 2tb drive years ago, still going strong. If you bought one of these today it would be more heavily used but frankly just buy two or three for your backups (as you should be doing) and actually back the stuff up and you're golden

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2022 16:45:43 No.1240395 Report

Quoted By: >>1240407 >>1240413

>>1240383
something like this
https://www.ebay.com/itm/403628452416?hash=item5dfa216a40:g:i0MAAOSw2pJiaXVq&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAA0AHjURpMw3FB1%2B3Gu3oeO%2FKhUpJXFr5r%2BcjcHgYUUgZgLUyCfuJWIKtqKhVmTKO%2BZCi%2FujmukqoS9GeXduok0TE18Dy9uUdWrQUgYRheXQS0xfrsJvcR%2FxgP7xabHVaODgfe1aWT%2BUzh126XHl7BPNnQYLInbsbO%2F5jH%2BEtUhXhZeyuN7p6FxRkpWGSm%2BXoQwMu3yz1aqX72LQeT%2FTI5S%2BqOanIHxeJ%2FGCZ1HhyLfoesM9tkZVDVW2jhfUihugtA7EoRnvNsldlHmvCjHbzy2TY%3D%7Ctkp%3ABFBMyODArclg

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2022 17:20:21 No.1240407 Report

Quoted By: >>1240410

FFS, learn to copy ebay links without including your username and IP address

>>1240344
https://www.ebay.com/itm/313953234436
>>1240395
https://www.ebay.com/itm/403628452416

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2022 17:24:37 No.1240410 Report

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>>1240407
I didn't know it was doing that. if you couldn't tell I don't know shit about computers

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2022 17:25:23 No.1240411 Report

Quoted By: >>1240531 >>1240533

>>1240383
>Buying used or new eBay SSDs is fine as long as the product isn't a fake.
Unless you buy it from a real company it will be a fake. 90-100% of flash memory products on eBay are fake, usually they're name-brand products that have had the firmware altered to misrepresent the capacity. It will work fine at first, but after you write some power-of-two fewer bytes than you paid for, it will stop working or start overwriting your previous data.

If anyone notices, refunds and "being in china and anonymous" are used to avoid disputes and negative feedback: you can't just neg or neutral someone anymore, if the seller does a perfunctory job of communicating and refunds you or otherwise ticks all the boxes, eBay makes it hard/impossible/time-consuming to leave the feedback you want to.

It is simply not worth the hassle dealing with all this, particularly when it's not even significantly cheaper.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2022 17:31:02 No.1240413 Report

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>>1240395
>https://www.ebay.com/itm/403628452416
Look, here's a new one for the same price: https://pcpartpicker.com/mr/neweggmkt/KRDkcf

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2022 22:03:41 No.1240531 Report

Quoted By: >>1240559 >>1240562

>>1240411
>Unless you buy it from a real company it will be a fake.
I disagree. It must be *made* by a brand-name company, but you can *buy it from* anybody on eBay with a problem. People generally don't sell counterfeit SSDs.

I agree with the point I believe you are trying to make which is that no-name SSDs will be scams which have false capacity information written to the controller.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2022 22:07:01 No.1240533 Report

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>>1240411
I visited Shenzhen and made sure to buy a counterfeit 2TB Kingston HyperX thumb drive specifically so I could test one out for myself and then go back to the merchant the next day and give them a hard time face-to-face. Worth it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2022 22:34:31 No.1240559 Report

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>>1240531
>People generally don't sell counterfeit SSDs
Are you saying these things don't exist, or just for some reason they're not on eBay?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzJdM1QkIxY

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Jul 2022 22:37:09 No.1240562 Report

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>>1240531
>you can *buy it from* anybody on eBay with a problem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D378FBhDP-k

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 30 Jul 2022 16:44:45 No.1240863 Report

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>>1240344
>whats a good inexpensive ssd?
A Made_in_China brand could actually just have multiple USB thumb drive innards mounted onto a circuit card to create the same storage capacity and it would fool a lot of USA customers.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 30 Jul 2022 16:53:11 No.1240865 Report

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>>1240344
>is something like this good?

SSD reviews are not reliable because the SSD maker can do a bait_and_switch after the reviews come out for a new product. Their initial produciton run sent to new customers and reviewers get evaluated highly. Once all the reviews are published by all the major reviewers, the company then feels secure no more bad publicity could occur. So they now swap out the components for cheaper or slower components.

This scammy problem was highlighted by Linus Tech Tips:
https://youtu.be/K07sEM6y4Uc

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