What's going on in SSD market? https://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=179_1088&item_id=139711 -- William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>
On Sun, Sep 22, 2019, 10:51 AM William Park via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
What's going on in SSD market?
https://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=179_1088&item_id=139711
Surprising in the moment, but not super surprising... https://www.electronicsweekly.com/uncategorised/ssds-getting-cheaper-2019-05... The graph presented there suggests prices should be falling quickly about now. There can surely be some local price drops, with numerous plausible root causes... - suppose a would be PC customer lost a contract causing a localized surplus of components - suppose an SSD production line ran some spare shifts Various sorts of logistical errors could lead to this. And with prices tending to fall, not seeming too surprising on aggregate.
On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 at 10:51, William Park via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
What's going on in SSD market?
https://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=179_1088&item_id=139711 -- William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca> --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
William, I have to admit I have no idea what your question is. Is this HD incredibly cheap? Is it very expensive? Is it based on a bad or slow chipset that no one should be buying? Or something else entirely? Let us know, we'll try to answer ... -- Giles https://www.gilesorr.com/ gilesorr@gmail.com
That's pretty cheap, though a traditional 3.5" HD 2T is about the same price. On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 at 11:48, Giles Orr via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 at 10:51, William Park via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
What's going on in SSD market?
https://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=179_1088&item_id=139711 -- William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca> --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
William,
I have to admit I have no idea what your question is. Is this HD incredibly cheap? Is it very expensive? Is it based on a bad or slow chipset that no one should be buying? Or something else entirely? Let us know, we'll try to answer ...
-- Giles https://www.gilesorr.com/ gilesorr@gmail.com --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
Reviews: https://www.amazon.com/Lexar-NS100-Solid-State-Drive-480GB/product-reviews/B07H6P59YS/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_show_all_btm?ie=UTF8&reviewerType=all_reviews Not fast, on par with other drives of similar price. "Important note up front: This is not the Lexar you might remember from a few years ago. That brand shuttered operations and the name was sold to a Chinese company called Longsys. Longsys is manufacturing this drive and unfortunately doesn't provide much info as to what is actually inside of it. It likely is running cheap TLC flash memory but that is merely speculation. Performance seems to be on par with other drives at this price point. I have attached my crystaldiskmark results to this review. Random writes seem to do better vs. random reads. For consumers running with traditional mechanical drives upgrading to an SSD like this is a huge performance boost. My only knock against it is the build quality of the casing. It's very lightweight plastic vs. what Sandisk uses in their similar priced and performing SSDs. But if you're installing this inside a computer that likely doesn't matter. Long term reliability is unknown but I'll update this review if I encounter any issues in the future. Longsys has been at this for awhile so I'm anticipating about the same long-term reliability of similar drives at this price point. If I was in the market for a drive I'd probably go with a Sandisk given their more established presence here in the United States. Sandisk's drives cost the same or less as these Lexar models. *Lon J. Seidman* <https://www.amazon.com/gp/profile/amzn1.account.AFZUOFUOCZ34A2VTM5QPQ7ZEE65Q/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_gw_btm?ie=UTF8> " On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 at 11:56, Don Tai <dontai.canada@gmail.com> wrote:
That's pretty cheap, though a traditional 3.5" HD 2T is about the same price.
On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 at 11:48, Giles Orr via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 at 10:51, William Park via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
What's going on in SSD market?
https://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=179_1088&item_id=139711 -- William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca> --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
William,
I have to admit I have no idea what your question is. Is this HD incredibly cheap? Is it very expensive? Is it based on a bad or slow chipset that no one should be buying? Or something else entirely? Let us know, we'll try to answer ...
-- Giles https://www.gilesorr.com/ gilesorr@gmail.com --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
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