Okay, so now that my little experiment with a bunch of scam nvme drive from amazon is done and over with and I got my money back from amazon. Where do I look for some cheap and semi decent 4tb nvmes? Adata used to by my goto budget flash memory, never had any problems with any of their drives. But they’re not so inexpensive anymore… Team group seems like they have good prices but how reliable are they?
Is prime day or boxing day even a good time to buy drives?
Is there any 4tb nvme under $300(CAD) even worth looking at?
Again, I’m just farting around and experimenting but any suggestion will be greatly appreciated and win you imaginary internet points from a stranger sitting on a porcelain thrown as he writes this.
SSD’s are fine for backups. Unless you do a massive amount of writes, which would be weird for backups, they are very power efficient.
This is datahoarder and cost per TB is always important. Also TLC and even worse, QLC SSD’s have trouble with long term data retention even without a lot of writes. Not that HDD’s are great either. Too bad there is no sane affordable tape storage.