I've purchased quite a few of these after buying one to initially test as a boot drive. I'm currently using 2 as external storage drives, and 2 as a boot drive and extra internal storage in an old Dell Inspiron 3537. These harddrives have great read and write speeds, and I've yet to have any issues after months and months of use. The price per gb is hard to beat as well. I have not experienced any issues with corrupt data, overheating, inability to mount, etc. They're plenty fast enough to be used as external drives for video editing and using them as a boot drive will breathe new life into that old computer you have laying around collecting dust. I have not tested them in a RAID configuration yet but I dont forsee them having any issues. I will definitely be purchasing more of these in the future.
I'd also like to touch on a trend I've seen recently where people are swapping out their old HDD's for SSD's, but after price shopping, end up purchasing cheaper DRAM-less SSD's to save a few bucks. There is a lot of good information regarding DRAM available to you should you seek it out, so I won't go into detail, however, I will say that while DRAM-less SSD's will work fine for a while and provide you with the speed you've been looking for (at first), you are not saving money in the long run. You also run the risk of losing data due to a drive failing prematurely, which means backing up your data is twice as important (which means buying yet ANOTHER harddrive for backups. Remember what I said about not saving any money?).
All of that to say, if you're looking for high end performance, reliability, and longevity, you won't find it cheaper than you will with these SK Hynix Golds. There may be better SSD's on the market from a performance standpoint, but not by much, and certainly not at this price.
| Hard Drive | 500 GB Solid State Drive |
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