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Samsung Evo 850 1TB SSD for 279€ (40€ off)
Just in case someone is interested^^
Currently notebooksbilliger is offering 40€ off this product:
https://m.notebooksbilliger.de/ifa+aktion+samsung+850+evo/samsung+850+evo+series+ssd+1tb?nbb=pn.md#Q4C8
Use code: 850EVO40
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Cheapest price on gh.de (Geizhals, price comparison) is about 311€, that means, it's quite a good deal, thanks @Ympker :-)
Sure thing Just saw it pop up on mydealz and thought I'd share^^
Better get two*500GB ones, and put them in RAID0. Instant 1GB/sec speeds even without NVMe.
Costs $140/each, so the total for 1TB is just ~234 EUR that way.
Yeah and if one fails your whole data is lost..
That's why you just always have backups. The single 1TB drive can fail just the same. Never assume that storing data on one drive or even RAID1, RAID5, RAID6 is "so reliable" that you can skip backups.
@rm_ option is just as valid. But anyway this is not about how to best make use of the SSDs but the deal itself. I am sure everyone purchasing will know what he will be able to use the drive(s) for
No it does not. You just doubled the risk of a failure.
Honestly, bigger drives had failed me more than smaller ones. Backup is your only viable solution for a data disaster. Just backup the hell out of it. At least two locations.
Any risk of a failure causing irreversible data loss should be considered unacceptable, be it X or 2 * X. The way to mitigate that is with backups. And when you have backups, it doesn't matter much if the failure risk is X or 2 * X, might as well go for the latter and also reap the speed benefit.
I had the same feeling with HDD's but not with SSD's.
I believe thats a new story as you just put more chips onto
the board, there is no more heat or more vibration or sth like that.
There's the wearout what you have to keep in mind but yeah.
I think, the problem is, that you can put more data on a 1TB ssd
than you could on a 120GB one. That means, if that SSD fails, you
would lose more data. That feels more bad than a failed 120G one.
With hdd... I have 1TB SATA disks from Samsung mainly dying on me.
My 80GB ide drives from Maxtor are or would run like hell without any failure.
Sh... You'll wake up people who think RAID is the backup.
You cannot wake up those people.