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Kingston A400 240GB SSD - $39.99

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Just a heads up: this is often goes on sale on Amazon for the same price, but Amazon ships free after $35, Newegg does not - save the $3.99 if you can, and wait for it to be on sale on Amazon.
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This SSD has high failure rate and shouldn't be used for your main drive.
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meepsheep wrote: This SSD has high failure rate and shouldn't be used for your main drive.
Wha?
Got some links?
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Quentin5 wrote: Wha?
Got some links?
I worked at computer store. Kingston and Adata SSDs come in for RMA the most out of every brand. Samsung was the least RMA'd.
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meepsheep wrote: I worked at computer store. Kingston and Adata SSDs come in for RMA the most out of every brand. Samsung was the least RMA'd.
Damn
One thing i often wondered is if there is data recovery possible on an SSD. I have everything backed up of course but i know about expensive recovery services for HDs but wondered since solid state is just a bunch of chips if its just gone its gone?
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Quentin5 wrote: Damn
One thing i often wondered is if there is data recovery possible on an SSD. I have everything backed up of course but i know about expensive recovery services for HDs but wondered since solid state is just a bunch of chips if its just gone its gone?
Nah lol it's pretty much dead. For hard drives, it's possible since it's physical but SSD, when it dies, it's poof.

I recommend these cheaper Kingstons as a scratch disk (for photo/video editing temporary files) or just for Windows, cuz you can reinstall it easily.
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meepsheep wrote: Nah lol it's pretty much dead. For hard drives, it's possible since it's physical but SSD, when it dies, it's poof.
Not surprised
I recommend these cheaper Kingstons as a scratch disk (for photo/video editing temporary files) or just for Windows, cuz you can reinstall it easily.
You can but i find its a lot of downtime and it things always fail when your busy and have important deadlines.
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Quentin5 wrote: You can but i find its a lot of downtime and it things always fail when your busy and have important deadlines.
I always have backups and I work on the cloud sometimes just in case!
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meepsheep wrote: I always have backups and I work on the cloud sometimes just in case!
I do regular backups as well but of my stored data, the windows SSD drive was not too happy when i tried to back it up.
I assume there is software that can backup and clone the drive since it would also have to have to be made bootable, i'd have to make time to research and test it.
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Quentin5 wrote: I do regular backups as well but of my stored data, the windows SSD drive was not too happy when i tried to back it up.
I assume there is software that can backup and clone the drive since it would also have to have to be made bootable, i'd have to make time to research and test it.
Macrium Reflect is what I use for cloning. It's awesome and free. The technicians are my old workplace used it too.
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meepsheep wrote: Macrium Reflect is what I use for cloning. It's awesome and free. The technicians are my old workplace used it too.
Thanks, I'll have to check it out
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meepsheep wrote: I worked at computer store. Kingston and Adata SSDs come in for RMA the most out of every brand. Samsung was the least RMA'd.
Not disagreeing, but I have these in a lot of my machines, and none have died yet. Maybe I'm lucky?
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I have used different brands of SSDs and the Kingston was the only one to fail, and that was under very light use.
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meepsheep wrote: This SSD has high failure rate and shouldn't be used for your main drive.
TFW many of your deployed admin machines are using this exact drive...

I'll take the L on a 1 in 20 going down inside 2 years.

These machines were a steal.
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