On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 7:23 PM Edward <[email protected]> wrote: > > Looks like SanDisk's Extreme SSD's are having issues. > > https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/sandisk-extreme-ssds-keep-abruptly-failing-firmware-fix-for-only-some-promised/
Personally, I would just stay away from purpose-built external SSDs. The prices of 2.5 or even m.2 SSDs have come down so much that I would suggest doing a reverse "drive shucking". Buy an internal drive with known good capabilities and pair it with a cheap ($10-$15) dollar external case. You can even get m.2 NVME to USB external cases pretty cheaply. I upgraded the 512GB NVME drive in my laptop recently and put it in an external case. My minimal testing is that it can pretty much saturate the USB-C connection. 512GB isn't really enough for a good external backup drive, but it is probably going to be a crazy fast/big Ventoy based boot anything that I want device. If I still had anything that had a rust based internal boot drive, it might be interesting to see if booting from the external SSD would be faster. Bandwidth over USB 3.0+ vs. real world SATA is probably comparable. The lack of seeking in the SSD, would probably make the external drive faster even when "slowed down" by USB. Bill Bogstad _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
