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[zirk]

Might be of Interest to some peeps 

Good price for 1TB SSD from Crucial for 140 quid, possibly limited Stock and Time Scales.

Spec: 560 MB/s Read, 510 MB/s Write, 5 Year Limited Warranty, Comes with ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE™ For Crucial Cloning Software

https://www.box.co.uk/Crucial-MX500-1TB-2.5-SSD-SATA-6Gbs_2289802.html

[TheBoy]

Good spot, good value, but not quite the saving they claim, as Crucial MX 1Tb have been under £200 for a while.

At £140 I'd consider having one if it was another brand

[Rods2]

Good spot as £35 cheaper than the Samsung ones and I have ordered up 2 of them.

[Auto Addict]

Just sent my crucial back, lasted just over 2 months.

Replaced it with a Samsung.

[TheBoy]

Just sent my crucial back, lasted just over 2 months.

Replaced it with a Samsung.

They giving you a full refund, or partial (which is why I won't buy Crucial SSDs now)?

[Auto Addict]

Just sent my crucial back, lasted just over 2 months.

Replaced it with a Samsung.

They giving you a full refund, or partial (which is why I won't buy Crucial SSDs now)?

Replacement

I shall use it in my old Toshiba.

The Samsung appears slightly slower than the crucial.

I don't know what the Crucial drive did to my Dell, but I had a hell of a job reloading Windows onto the new drive.

It took several attempts, nearly gave up, lost about a day and a half rebuilding.

Everything is running fine now though.

[TheBoy]

The drive wouldn’t do “anything” to get he laptop, but if using EFI boot, you might have to reset that

[Auto Addict]

The drive wouldn’t do “anything” to get he laptop, but if using EFI boot, you might have to reset that

Fitted the new Samsung drive.

Couldn't get it to boot up off a Win 10 USB.

Inserted a recovery USB, took ages to boot up, but installed it.

As I wanted to do a clean install, inserted the Win 10 USB, again took ages to boot up, deleted all the partitions and did a clean install.

Then did all the Win 10 updates - ran for 8 hours and failed to install update 1803.

Tried again the following day, and it installed 1803 (took 2 hours).

Just to add, I was plugged into the Ethernet, not wifi.

[TheBoy]

Firstly, for a clean install, you should not be attempting *anything* other than 1803 at this time.

Secondly, as stated, a failed/failing drive can not impact performance once replaced and (if reqd) configured.  Namely because it can't maintain a telepathic link from afar.

Thirdly, any out of sync update can fail. In sync updates can also fail if it follows an out of sync update without a reboot.  Windows does this to try to stop people destroying it by doing daft things

[Auto Addict]

Firstly, for a clean install, you should not be attempting *anything* other than 1803 at this time.

Secondly, as stated, a failed/failing drive can not impact performance once replaced and (if reqd) configured.  Namely because it can't maintain a telepathic link from afar.

Thirdly, any out of sync update can fail. In sync updates can also fail if it follows an out of sync update without a reboot.  Windows does this to try to stop people destroying it by doing daft things

Ah right, doesn't explain why it had difficulty booting though.

[TheBoy]

Ah right, doesn't explain why it had difficulty booting though.

Off the USB? It will make no difference*.  If off the SSD, and you are using EFI booting, you'd possibly have to reset the EFI boot order unless the partition layout and EFI boot file wasn't identical.


*to when you last booted off USB...  ...assuming no EFI changes such as SecureBoot since then.

[Auto Addict]

Ah right, doesn't explain why it had difficulty booting though.

Off the USB? It will make no difference*.  If off the SSD, and you are using EFI booting, you'd possibly have to reset the EFI boot order unless the partition layout and EFI boot file wasn't identical.


*to when you last booted off USB...  ...assuming no EFI changes such as SecureBoot since then.

No change made to EFI,  I've only ever rebuilt off USB, had no problems until the Crucial drive failed.

[zirk]

Good spot, good value, but not quite the saving they claim, as Crucial MX 1Tb have been under £200 for a while.

At £140 I'd consider having one if it was another brand

Ok, well if you dont trust Crucial and want a slightly cheaper make there is always this for £118 for 960gb -

and its 3D NAND for the money. 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/ADATA-ASU650SS-960GT-C-960GB-Ultimate-Spacer/dp/B07D9WW9WS/ref=sr_1_1?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1539566389&sr=1-1&keywords=ADATA+ASU650SS-960GT-C+960GB+Ultimate+SU650+SSD+2.5+SATA3+7mm+%282.5mm+Spacer%29+3D+NAND+520%2F450+MB%2Fs+75K+IOPS+-+%28Components+%3E+SSD+Solid+State+Drive%29

[TheBoy]

I'm in the market for some 1TB (or 960Gb ) SSDs, but I'm more of an upmarket man, due to the spanking they will get.  They will end up in servers , and I'm far too tight to pay for enterprise class SSDs (about £8k for 800Gb).

Currently, the SSDs in the servers are 2 x 960Gb SANdisk Ultra II's per server, alongside the 8 x 1.2Tb SAS drives per server.  These SSDs have had 3 or 4 years of being thrashed and have not missed a beat

[zirk]

I'm in the market for some 1TB (or 960Gb ) SSDs, but I'm more of an upmarket man, due to the spanking they will get.  They will end up in servers , and I'm far too tight to pay for enterprise class SSDs (about £8k for 800Gb).

Currently, the SSDs in the servers are 2 x 960Gb SANdisk Ultra II's per server, alongside the 8 x 1.2Tb SAS drives per server.  These SSDs have had 3 or 4 years of being thrashed and have not missed a beat

My first 2 SSD's I ever owned were SanDisk Ultra II's, both were 480gb, bought on separate occasions from different sources, and they wernt cheap at the time either, both are now screwed, first one just gave up the ghost one day, never to be seen since, dead as a Do Do, Second one kept Freezing before giving up, occasionally it shows up with a Partition Tool, but as soon as you try and do anything with it, Partition, Format etc, just disappears again, till next time. Other one was a 500gb WD which lasted about a year before dying 

Only others Ive had since are a 500gb Kingston Memory which is still going strong, and a Samsumg 256gb in a M2 Slot, both still good, no issues, Oh, and them Cheapo Light Weights, Integral 25 Quid Jobbies, there surprisingly still going. 

Im just trying to think with the collection of Real Sata HDs Ive got, dont think Ive ever had one fail yet, some make some wonderful noises when spinning but there all still working, maybe theres life in the Old Vinyls yet. 

[aaronjb]

Im just trying to think with the collection of Real Sata HDs Ive got, dont think Ive ever had one fail yet, some make some wonderful noises when spinning but there all still working, maybe theres life in the Old Vinyls yet. 

I recently acquired a 1990s vintage SCSI drive (3.5", so relatively modern ) .. I'm going to be interested to see if it spins up once the replacement PSU for it's enclosure arrives (it's inside a http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/impact500mk2 )

[zirk]

Im just trying to think with the collection of Real Sata HDs Ive got, dont think Ive ever had one fail yet, some make some wonderful noises when spinning but there all still working, maybe theres life in the Old Vinyls yet. 

I recently acquired a 1990s vintage SCSI drive (3.5", so relatively modern ) .. I'm going to be interested to see if it spins up once the replacement PSU for it's enclosure arrives (it's inside a http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/impact500mk2 )

My money is on it will still be a worker                ..........now, about these IDE Drives you wanna buy off me. 

[aaronjb]

Im just trying to think with the collection of Real Sata HDs Ive got, dont think Ive ever had one fail yet, some make some wonderful noises when spinning but there all still working, maybe theres life in the Old Vinyls yet. 

I recently acquired a 1990s vintage SCSI drive (3.5", so relatively modern ) .. I'm going to be interested to see if it spins up once the replacement PSU for it's enclosure arrives (it's inside a http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/impact500mk2 )

My money is on it will still be a worker                ..........now, about these IDE Drives you wanna buy off me. 

If they were MFM, you'd be talking my language

[TheBoy]

I've been relatively lucky with SSDs - failures have been Crucial (but I did have a fair few of them, only one failed) and Techman (fine with Win7, but constant corruption with Win8/10 - across all drives (they came with some PoS systems)).



aaronjb - shame, I binned a box load of SCSI-I drives only a couple of months ago. Massive, at 4.3Gb.  I had an 8" drive on my shelf in the office up until I moved desks. Weight a ton.  No idea of the interface, as it wasn't a standard connector. Came out of some proprietary 1980s Unix box.

[Kevin Wood]

It's always the case. As soon as you throw something away, you find a need for it.

I had a 35 track 5.25" drive in the loft until recently. I really don't think I'm going to regret binning that.

[TheBoy]

It's always the case. As soon as you throw something away, you find a need for it.

I had a 35 track 5.25" drive in the loft until recently. I really don't think I'm going to regret binning that.

I'm sure an old copy of Acorn Today will show how to build an interface to plug it into a Beeb-B

[TheBoy]

It's always the case. As soon as you throw something away, you find a need for it.

I had a 35 track 5.25" drive in the loft until recently. I really don't think I'm going to regret binning that.

Mind you, I had to go cap in hand to a mate (who hoards old IT junk) for a 2.5" PATA drive not so long back 

You can imagine the abuse I had to take, after all the abuse I've given him over using old shite

[dave the builder]

There is a market for old tech ,get yourself on Ebay TB 
I've a pile of "junk" pc stuff from apricot 386 to IBM tower servers which i need to sort through
one day 
apparently good for gold recovery too

[Kevin Wood]

It's always the case. As soon as you throw something away, you find a need for it.

I had a 35 track 5.25" drive in the loft until recently. I really don't think I'm going to regret binning that.

I'm sure an old copy of Acorn Today will show how to build an interface to plug it into a Beeb-B

Oh, I achieved that about 30 years ago. The poor old DFS needed to be told in unconventional ways that it only had 35 tracks, though, because it kept assuming it was a 40 track drive. Made for an expensive sounding noise when the head hit the buffers.

[Kevin Wood]

It's always the case. As soon as you throw something away, you find a need for it.

I had a 35 track 5.25" drive in the loft until recently. I really don't think I'm going to regret binning that.

Mind you, I had to go cap in hand to a mate (who hoards old IT junk) for a 2.5" PATA drive not so long back 

You can imagine the abuse I had to take, after all the abuse I've given him over using old shite

Could have come here and saved your embarrassment. I've got a pile of them in the loft.

[Rods2]

Two SSDs arrived this morning. Awaiting 2.5" enclosure to be delivered so I can mirror & install the drive in my Development PC and I will then use the enclosure for my other SSD as a backup drive.

Compared with Ebuyer glacial order processing with standard delivery, I'm impressed with The Box speed of despatch & delivery.

[Auto Addict]

Two SSDs arrived this morning. Awaiting 2.5" enclosure to be delivered so I can mirror & install the drive in my Development PC and I will then use the enclosure for my other SSD as a backup drive.

Compared with Ebuyer glacial order processing with standard delivery, I'm impressed with The Box speed of despatch & delivery.

Delivery on mine was good, replacement due within 10 days they say, 3 days to go.

[aaronjb]

aaronjb - shame, I binned a box load of SCSI-I drives only a couple of months ago. Massive, at 4.3Gb.  I had an 8" drive on my shelf in the office up until I moved desks. Weight a ton.  No idea of the interface, as it wasn't a standard connector. Came out of some proprietary 1980s Unix box.

Not to worry - the SCSI drive itself will be replaced by a SCSI to SD adapter off the bay of fleas.. need to get a similar adapter to go in the A1200 I just picked up, too.

I appear to have sprouted a new problem buying old junk to hoard

[Kevin Wood]

I appear to have sprouted a new problem buying old junk to hoard

I've had it for years.

Wait until you start on Tek 'scopes. Think I'm on 7 currently. I need help.

[zirk]

I appear to have sprouted a new problem buying old junk to hoard

I've had it for years.

Wait until you start on Tek 'scopes. Think I'm on 7 currently. I need help.

Good thing about Scopes is its one of the few Tools that you can use One to fix the Other One. 

[aaronjb]

Wait until you start on Tek 'scopes. Think I'm on 7 currently. I need help.

I wouldn't mind a nice, relatively compact, modern scope.. but they usually come with an accompanying price tag!

[Kevin Wood]

Good thing about Scopes is its one of the few Tools that you can use One to fix the Other One. 

Precisely. This is what I tell Mrs. KW. 

[Kevin Wood]

Wait until you start on Tek 'scopes. Think I'm on 7 currently. I need help.

I wouldn't mind a nice, relatively compact, modern scope.. but they usually come with an accompanying price tag!

Sounds like you "need" a DSO Quad.

http://wiki.seeedstudio.com/DSO_Quad/

Not too expensive and great for using in the footwell of a car, etc. I've even used it to debug my mate's glider engine tacho from the back seat while in flight. (turned out to be a crank sensor issue, of course!)

Not so great if you need a lot of bandwidth, but a must have gadget none the less.

[aaronjb]

Wait until you start on Tek 'scopes. Think I'm on 7 currently. I need help.

I wouldn't mind a nice, relatively compact, modern scope.. but they usually come with an accompanying price tag!

Sounds like you "need" a DSO Quad.

http://wiki.seeedstudio.com/DSO_Quad/

Not too expensive and great for using in the footwell of a car, etc. I've even used it to debug my mate's glider engine tacho from the back seat while in flight. (turned out to be a crank sensor issue, of course!)

Not so great if you need a lot of bandwidth, but a must have gadget none the less.

I've looked at those - they look really good.. in fact, I think you and I might have discussed them previously

I have their soldering iron which is really impressive, though apparently if you forget the ground strap it has floating AC at the tip, which is rather less impressive! But saved me finding my proper soldering station to desolder a leaking battery backup, last week

One last thing.. glider, engine? Surely that's an aeroplane then 

[TheBoy]

Two SSDs arrived this morning. Awaiting 2.5" enclosure to be delivered so I can mirror & install the drive in my Development PC and I will then use the enclosure for my other SSD as a backup drive.

That's why you need a 3d printer.  Last time I needed a drive size adapter, a quick scan on Thingiverse.com and it was ready an hour later.

But I am a Thingiverse junkie

[Auto Addict]

Two SSDs arrived this morning. Awaiting 2.5" enclosure to be delivered so I can mirror & install the drive in my Development PC and I will then use the enclosure for my other SSD as a backup drive.

Compared with Ebuyer glacial order processing with standard delivery, I'm impressed with The Box speed of despatch & delivery.

Delivery on mine was good, replacement due within 10 days they say, 3 days to go.

Well, according to their web site, they acknowledge receipt of the returned one, and the new one is ready for shipping

[Auto Addict]

Two SSDs arrived this morning. Awaiting 2.5" enclosure to be delivered so I can mirror & install the drive in my Development PC and I will then use the enclosure for my other SSD as a backup drive.

Compared with Ebuyer glacial order processing with standard delivery, I'm impressed with The Box speed of despatch & delivery.

Delivery on mine was good, replacement due within 10 days they say, 3 days to go.

Well, according to their web site, they acknowledge receipt of the returned one, and the new one is ready for shipping

...and the good news is it's being shipped today.

[Auto Addict]

Two SSDs arrived this morning. Awaiting 2.5" enclosure to be delivered so I can mirror & install the drive in my Development PC and I will then use the enclosure for my other SSD as a backup drive.

Compared with Ebuyer glacial order processing with standard delivery, I'm impressed with The Box speed of despatch & delivery.

Delivery on mine was good, replacement due within 10 days they say, 3 days to go.

Well, according to their web site, they acknowledge receipt of the returned one, and the new one is ready for shipping

...and the good news is it's being shipped today.

It arrived this morning

Returned was a 250 Gb - replacement is a 500 Gb

I'm not going to complain

[zirk]

It arrived this morning

Returned was a 250 Gb - replacement is a 500 Gb

I'm not going to complain

No, but doesn't exactly expire confidence that the Company knows what its doing. 

[Auto Addict]

It arrived this morning

Returned was a 250 Gb - replacement is a 500 Gb

I'm not going to complain

No, but doesn't exactly expire confidence that the Company knows what its doing. 

At least they got it wrong in the right direction, would have been a bit peeved the other way around.