There's a couple of PM863s 480 gb available on Ebay for a low price. Is this a good enterprise SSD? Or better to get a Intel 3500?
Yes. PM863 uses newer, better 3D TLC NAND, has better endurance, and is faster.So would the PM863 make a better primary (OS) drive for a workstation than an Intel DC s3500 or Samsung PM853T? Anybody?
Thank you. And how would you rate them compared to a Samsung SM863 or Intel DC S3710 - endurance, stability, speed?Yes. PM863 uses newer, better 3D TLC NAND, has better endurance, and is faster.
Absolutely right; I wasn't thinking of that - it IS connected to a SATA-II port. Thank you!Sequential R/W numbers look low. I have a 960GB PM863 and sequentials are both close to or above 500MB/s. If I had to guess, you're probably running the drive on a SATA II port or maybe it's downshifting for some reason.
that's a hell of a way to do that, I'd simply install both, use macrium reflect on a flashdrive to clone one to the other and then remove the HDDI'm getting ready to replace a Seagate ST500DM002-1BD14 500GB OS HDD in my primary workstation (Lenovo ThinkStation D20) with this PM863 480GB SSD, but it seems like I've had problems doing this in the past. My plan is to pull the HDD out, slave it and the SSD in another Windows 7 computer, boot from Acronis True Image WD Edition CD, and clone the HDD to the SSD. This always works great for other computers, but if I remember correctly I've had trouble getting the cloned drive to boot in my ThinkStation. It is using a Marvel 88SE63xx/64xx controller and the BIOS is configured to use RAID instead of AHCI; would this keep a cloned drive from booting? Can it not load the drivers? It seems I had this problem trying to replace other drives too (not OS drive). It's like the only drives that will work are the ones in there now. Or maybe I'm missing something in the POST message. Can anybody help?
Thanks Deslok! I guess for that matter, I could just boot from my CD and clone it in place. Any advantage to Macrium Reflect? Does it have a bootable version? Looks like the free version will do cloning, so that's good.that's a hell of a way to do that, I'd simply install both, use macrium reflect on a flashdrive to clone one to the other and then remove the HDD
I like it better than arconis but that's subjective and if you use your d20 to build a boot flash drive it'll include any extra drivers(for raid controllers ect) it would need.Thanks Deslok! I guess for that matter, I could just boot from my CD and clone it in place. Any advantage to Macrium Reflect? Does it have a bootable version? Looks like the free version will do cloning, so that's good.
Ah-ha, which would answer the real question here (drivers). Can you use Macrium Reflect to create the boot flash drive, or are you talking about building a boot flash drive some other way?I like it better than arconis but that's subjective and if you use your d20 to build a boot flash drive it'll include any extra drivers(for raid controllers ect) it would need.
It calls it recovery media but it can build it when it's installed on a system.Ah-ha, which would answer the real question here (drivers). Can you use Macrium Reflect to create the boot flash drive, or are you talking about building a boot flash drive some other way?