Is there any disadvantage of cloning compared to a fresh installation?

whered you get this at this price

Read it again. "it was Amazon mistakenly advertised the wrong price"

Just get KC3000...

ah ok
yeah i bought the kc3000, then i saw that and thought about if im a sucker

Just get the KC3000, i also have it. The SN850X i was just lucky that day i log in Amazon US app, saw that price, then grab it. Many of Hong Kong guys bought 2-3 pcs at one time but was get cancelled by Amazon or reduced the quantity to 1 pcs.

Does the MTE220S run hot? I'm going to use it as a capture drive that will do lots of long time writing
It will write data to the drive between 4 ~ 8 hours at a time

Currently using HDD but the HDD is showing lots of bad sectors now as it's being used in an unstable location
Inside a car being used for capturing route data. Already used lots of soft silicone to protect the HDD from any shocks but it still happen anyway
This is the 4th HDD that died during the project
Already tried multiple HDD models, each HDD only survives between 6 - 12 months

Thinking if I should use active cooling on the MTE220S so that it will run a lot cooler too

running hot or not depends on loads to ssd.

my work use case is to store and run vms, and as backups for vms. both are not as heavy as production, and the devices are in air-conditioned rooms. the backup part usually takes like under five minutes. passive cooling is good enough. at home, usage is way lighter, temperature under load is around 50c.

yes, in your case, you should use ssd. hdd will not likely to survive in such scenarios. for best-effort protections, active cooling is better i believe.

Still not ideal. PC grade SSDs arent designed for use in cars. You will need something like industrial grade type SSD. For ur dynamic use case try consider high storage SDXC cards, specifically those recommended for use in dashcams.
https://p--ltan.org/2022/05/02/dash-cam-mic...ce-hot-weather/

anymore good deals to be had this 6.6?

still got ka... today 7.6

got la, sale is 6.6 to 8.6, can keep collecting lazbonus.

Pcie5 ssd, both i select with heatsink

Singer platter, or perhaps low TB hdd are more likely to surive than high TB hdd, i had so many dead desktop HDD starting from 1TB, few 2 and 3 TB died throughout the years
my Hitachi 500GB and WD Scropio 320 GB still working fine today, both were extracted from dead lappy and HTPC

or capturing SATA SSD should be MORE enough, NVME even better,
for workload from video capturing, assume you set the bitrate to 12mbps for 1080p H264, 12mbps (1.5MB/s) is miniscule for SSD transfer rate, and data wont be continuous write to SSD, it goes to buffer first, for write performance improvement

This post has been edited by 1024kbps: Jun 10 2023, 11:31 AM

yes, i believe that. however, to help minimize risks of work routines that might cause potential project delays, ssds are better.

it's not about speed, since hdd can do the job well. imo the absence of moving parts makes ssds more practical to be used.

I m intrigued by how come the ssd of 8TB is so cheap being sold in shopee or Lazada. Is this real?

This post has been edited by ccschua: Jun 24 2023, 11:10 AM

Cheap is at what price?
Recently nand price have gone down but if cheaper than HDD it sounds fishy.

LOL Ada sauce?

8TB is like the max capacity for current SSD technology. That too on Enterprise drives, most consumer ones tops at 4TB. If its less than RM4k its not real, like those fake USB drives.

This post has been edited by babylon52281: Jun 24 2023, 12:51 PM

https://shopee.com.my/SSD-External-Hard-Dis...8a-00a617d84419

fake usb drive
xiaomi, aka the MI branding, doesn't make external SSDs

damn, they even have 30TB model.
guess the target audience are those less tech savvy or boomer,
the later are more likely to become victim of this kind of shit products