What are some good SATA and Nvme boot drives? Looking for drives under 250gb.
Name your top 5 for each.
Name your top 5 for each.
For me at least, port availability. My latest board has two M2 ports so I thought whet the hell, let's see how that goes. The speed benefit is marginal at best for OS operations (I'm running linux so boots and patch installations were already near instantaneous) although there's been an appreciable benefit to cache operations. The downside is no hot-swap I'm aware of, so replacing a dead drive would likely mean a reboot.Besides computer boot and application load times, I’m not sure what other loads/task would benefit greatly from a NVME drive.
IMHO full PLP is less important on OS drives; they very rarely have any heavy writes in flight. Even so I pulled one half of the P4101 RAID1 in the middle of a kernel upgrade and managed to boot from it fine. Personally I'd only want to splurge on PLP for things like SLOGs or database drives.Options for 22110 drives with power protection are few and far between, which seems like an important feature to have.
There's a system I came across in November, a greybox linux machine that's still perfectly happy running off of two SATA2 OCZ Agility drives of 2009 vintage; we've got some S3500s to replace them with if and when they fail. I'm still running one of my backup servers booting off of two stone-aged SATA1 HP FK0032CAAZP (server pulls from circa 2009) that are still at 95% lifetime. These are both dog-slow drives by any stretch of the imagination and all but worthless but perfectly functional for boot drives.A boot drive for Linux/FreeBSD can be almost anything, a slow 5400rpm IDE is usually plenty. A good quality USB drive would great here, though it is impossible to find, they all like to lie about fsync.
A boot drive for Linux/FreeBSD can be almost anything, a slow 5400rpm IDE is usually plenty. A good quality USB drive would great here, though it is impossible to find, they all like to lie about fsync.
So for the last few years I've bought something like Intel S3500 for $20-£30 each
Just did a quick search, Micron 500DC 240GB for $22 Micron M500DC 240GB MLC SATA 6Gbps 2.5-inch SSD MTFDDAK240MBB-1AE1 | eBay
The Micron 500DC is very low latency and a good performer, endurance is around 1 dwpd.
You can also find the 480GB version for around 45-50 USD.