Hi!

2 of my drives failed recently (as well as an external drive), plus my faithful HP Proliant Gen 8 is ripe for retirement (I’m small potatoes compared to you guys).

So I bought a mini-PC (with a N100). I’m considering going all SSDs.

What are the cheapest ones? They can be slow.

Is there a “storage SSD” category?

I’ve looked at OEMs but they’re not that interesting, or I didn’t know where to look.
Aliexpress is full of fakes. As is the second hand market. Or it’s legit but as expensive as new.

Thanks for reading!

  • Imhotep@lemmy.worldOP
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    2 days ago

    Thanks. Yes power consumption is important, so I’ll keep that in mind!

    Is there a specific term I should look for, or simply “power management”?

    • Jumuta@sh.itjust.works
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      2 days ago

      if this is a sata drive “SATA link power management” might work?

      ik tomshardware reviews of SSDs have information on power consumption