120GB SSD @ $20

[trs96]

How about an HP 1TB NVMe SSD for $175 - 15% = $149?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-EX920-M...SD/382454374689?hash=item590c0ea121:rk:1:pf:0

Tom's hardware seems to like these a lot. Competes with the Samsung Pro NVME drives in performance.

"Surprisingly, the HP EX920 is the best value in the 1TB NVMe market. That title went to the Intel 760p before the HP EX920 came along. Intel still hasn't shipped the 1TB 760p, and according to CDW's early product page, the 1TB EX920 costs less. We suspect the performance for most users will be about the same in most consumer-focused workloads."

 

[mm2margaret]

How about an HP 1TB NVMe SSD for $175 - 15% = $149?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-EX920-M...SD/382454374689?hash=item590c0ea121:rk:1:pf:0

Not too shabby, either......my problem is that I already own one......and I don't need another.....but for someone else, this is a great drive, folks....!!

 

[pastrychef]

Tom's hardware seems to like these a lot. Competes with the Samsung Pro NVME drives in performance.

"Surprisingly, the HP EX920 is the best value in the 1TB NVMe market. That title went to the Intel 760p before the HP EX920 came along. Intel still hasn't shipped the 1TB 760p, and according to CDW's early product page, the 1TB EX920 costs less. We suspect the performance for most users will be about the same in most consumer-focused workloads."
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Yeah. I already got one of these for my next project.

 

[mm2margaret]

Yeah. I already got one of these for my next project.

Me too....too bad you can't boot from a RAID on Mojave....imagine two of these in RAID 0 or RAID 1 or 5 (if you had three or more).....

 

[trs96]

Me too....too bad you can't boot from a RAID on Mojave....imagine two of these in RAID 0 or RAID 1 or 5 (if you had three or more).....

Raiding two of these together won't provide any benefit due to the 3500 MB/s "speed limit." I can easily be happy with speeds like this. For conventional Sata 3 SSDs putting them in a Raid configuration does really boost speeds.

 

[pastrychef]

Me too....too bad you can't boot from a RAID on Mojave....imagine two of these in RAID 0 or RAID 1 or 5 (if you had three or more).....

Stripe a few of these and we would be approaching RAM disk speeds. Lol

 

[pastrychef]

Raiding two of these together won't provide any benefit due to the 3500 MB/s "speed limit." I can easily be happy with speeds like this. For conventional Sata 3 SSDs putting them in a Raid configuration does really boost speeds.

What 3500MB/s speed limit? I thought it was only limited by the PCI-e x4 lanes.

 

[trs96]

What 3500MB/s speed limit? I thought it was only limited by the PCI-e x4 lanes.

You will get bottlenecked by the DMI that connects the PCH to the CPU.

It's probably why Apple stopped supporting raid in Mojave. Their NVME drives are so fast now that it makes no sense to Raid even two of them together.

 

[pastrychef]

You will get bottlenecked by the DMI that connects the PCH to the CPU.

It's probably why Apple stopped supporting raid in Mojave. Their NVME drives are so fast now that it makes no sense to Raid even two of them together.

I think Apple RAIDs the SSDs in the iMac Pros.

 

[trs96]

Thanks @pastrychef and @mm2margaret for pointing out what a great deal those HP NVME drives are. I'm not really a big Samsung fan either. I do generally like HP more.