2 New SSD drives

[thecaretaker]

I've been away from the forum today. I had run out of disk storage space for all my music and videos so I decided to splash the cash on 2 new 4TB SSD drives. They were cheaper than the last time I looked, but they still cost me a packet. Amazon link

When I built this PC, I had 2 x 2TB Crucial SSD drives and they were far outlasting the Samsung drives according to Crysaldisk. Both Crucial drives are still showing 99% healthy whereas the 2 smaller Samsung SSD drives of the same age had dropped to 84% and 86%.

So I bought 2 New 4TB Crucial drives (same type MX500), kept the 2 x 2TB drives and just using a smaller Samsung for my C drive backups.

It has taken me most of the day to transfer all my music, Video and installation files to the new drives. But all went smoothly and I'm back in business.

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The passport is an external USB drive where I put the largest of my video backups when I didn't have space on my E or F drive.

[Keyolder]

That’s quite some storage you have there

I still have old fashioned portable hard drives (non-SSD) for my backups. Although I have a tiny M2 portable SSD drive I use when on the move. I don’t backup as often as I should, only when I remember or the screen popups get too frequent…
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[thecaretaker]

That’s quite some storage you have there

I still have old fashioned portable hard drives (non-SSD) for my backups. Although I have a tiny M2 portable SSD drive I use when on the move. I don’t backup as often as I should, only when I remember or the screen popups get too frequent…
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I'm a bit paranoid about backing things up. I have a collection of music I've purchased and downloaded in the good old days of MP3.com and I thought I had made a mistake by formatting the wrong drive. I went ice cold with shock thinking I had lost everything. But thankfully, I hadn't formatted the wrong drive but it taught me a lesson. Back-up, back-up, backup. You can never have too many backups.

I'm just as paranoid about backing up my C drive. I don't know where I'd be if it wasn't for Macrium Reflect. It takes just over a minute to do a full C drive backup and the same to restore it. I find it really useful if I want to try out a program and then decide I don't like it. By restoring the last backed up image, I don't fill up the registry with loads of junk. And if my C drive ever died, it would take only a few minutes to be back up and running.

I've also written my own robocopy scripts to back up my email, firefox settings, my documents folders etc. When I built this PC, I was back up and running in no time.

I have a nightly routine now, before I go to bed, I back everything up. Including this website and Sql database.

You can't beat Macrium for ease of use and reliability. I was never happy with Windows flaky built-in roll back system introduced in Windows 7 and soon to be removed.

[Dunnickin]

SSD drives make an enormous difference to old and not so old computers, don't they. Anyone who does not have their C drive on a SSD ought to change that ! Macrium reflect doing very good deals right now,too.Lots of very cheap 250gb and 500gb drives out there, but I still find the Samsung ones the best for quality/ price balance. [--- (The seasonal word only permitted in December) ---_tongue.gif]

[thecaretaker]

Macrium reflect doing very good deals right now,too.

Yes, they often do black Friday deals with 50% off. They have dropped their free offering, but it can still be had if you know how their installer works. But I also understand they will be dropping the one time purchase and focussing on the annual subscription.

I couldn't live without it. [--- (The seasonal word only permitted in December) ---_cheesy.gif]

[jay]

My PC has a 2tb SSD as the main drive and an 8 tb normal drive as my games and video storage.

Scary fast.

[thecaretaker]

My PC has a 2tb SSD as the main drive and an 8 tb normal drive as my games and video storage.

Scary fast.

My C drive is a Kingston KC3000 PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD drive. Yes, SSD is fast, but you want to see the speed of these new M.2 drives. 7,000MB/s Read, 7,000MB/s Write.

The only downside, SATA drives are easy to move about and swap. These M2 SSD drives are tiny and are fixed with a tiny micro sized screw. To replace one requires good eye sight, a steady hand and tipping the PC on its side. You'll need the patients of a surgeon and hope you don't drop the little screw inside the case.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZk-6z_maPE

[Keyolder]

These M2 SSD drives are tiny and are fixed with a tiny micro sized screw. To replace one requires good eye sight, a steady hand and tipping the PC on its side. You'll need the patients of a surgeon and hope you don't drop the little screw inside the case.

I have a pair of neodymium magnets that I use for magnetizing guitar pickups, I also use the magnets to magnetise screwdrivers used in any tight and awkward situations.

Those M2 drives are blisteringly fast, years away from using cassettes for data storage on early computers, hoping or praying it would save or load. And back then I thought the 3.5-inch diskettes were a fast and a much better alternative to cassettes.
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[thecaretaker]

I have a pair of neodymium magnets that I use for magnetizing guitar pickups, I also use the magnets to magnetise screwdrivers used in any tight and awkward situations.

Those M2 drives are blisteringly fast, years away from using cassettes for data storage on early computers, hoping or praying it would save or load. And back then I thought the 3.5-inch diskettes were a fast and a much better alternative to cassettes.
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I remember having a floppy drive with my Commodore 64. Still got a floppy, but that's another story [--- (The seasonal word only permitted in December) ---_laugh.gif]

[Vera]

I remember having a floppy drive with my Commodore 64. Still got a floppy, but that's another story [--- (The seasonal word only permitted in December) ---_laugh.gif]

I used to have to repair 8" floppy drives they were remarkably simple..