On Thu, 18 Sep 2025 19:01:53 -0400 (EDT) "D. Hugh Redelmeier via Talk" <talk@lists.gtalug.org> wrote:
I have an old Dell XPS 9560 notebook. It has a dying SSD.
The SSD is M.2 SATA, which is not a good choice for performance. The XPS can support NVMe drives in the same socket, so I went shopping for one.
Hugh, A nearby computer store talked me into buying a Western Digital WDS100T2B0B-00YS70 M.2 SSD, and it is now my primary drive. This is back prior to December 2022. I have no idea of how it compares with other drives, but it is way faster than my old hard drive, and I am very happy. I am under the impression that these have a fairly short lifespan, but I do nightly backups. When it fails, I will get another one, or one of whatever is available. -- Howard Gibson hgibson@eol.ca http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson