Am 17. Jan, 2022 schwätzte Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss so: moin moin, > Crucial is the only ssd I have had fail. And with nvme drives I have had a > 0% fail rate. Hopefully mine does well. > My favorite is the Evo series by Samsung. One of which I have had in place > for over 6 years and it's wear level is still making like its barely used. > 1t Evo 970 kept to less than 75% max capacity. I've been happy with my Samsung devices, I'll consider them next time. > I have had nice results from sabrent drives as well. And oddly enough > Kingston a2000 series drives. Pcie 2x but still strong for Linux. > > Having room for wear leveling with backups I think will serve better than > raid 1 for unless you expect a horrendous number of writes. The drive gets exercised :). Probably still not that bad, though. RAID is to avoid the drive loss pain altogether :). I probably won't do it, though. I might get another drive to have a cold spare. The spare can be smaller as I don't need everything on it in a pinch. Thanks for the input. ciao, der.hans > On Sat, Jan 15, 2022, 7:34 PM der.hans via PLUG-discuss < > plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > >> moin moin, >> >> I'm looking to upgrade my NVMe drive and get two in order to mirror. >> >> I see crucial has several differently priced options. They're all >> m.2 2280, so they should all work, right? >> >> Here's what I have now: >> >> >> https://www.newegg.com/gigabyte-aorus-1tb/p/N82E16820009012?Item=N82E16820009012 >> >> >> https://www.newegg.com/gigabyte-x570-aorus-elite/p/N82E16813145160?Item=N82E16813145160 >> >> Options: >> >> >> https://www.newegg.com/crucial-2tb-p2/p/N82E16820156274?Description=m2&cm_re=m2-_-20-156-274-_-Product >> >> >> https://www.newegg.com/crucial-2tb-p5/p/N82E16820156250?Description=m2&cm_re=m2-_-20-156-250-_-Product >> >> >> https://www.newegg.com/crucial-2tb-p5-plus/p/N82E16820156281?Description=m2&cm_re=m2-_-20-156-281-_-Product >> >> Also, since these are hard drives, I could get any two similarly speeded >> 2TB drives for mirroring on that mother board? >> >> Don't have to worry about batch matching or anything like RAM sometimes >> needs? >> >> Need to make sure to get heat syncs with these puppies. >> >> ciao, >> >> der.hans >> -- >> # https://www.LuftHans.com https://www.PhxLinux.org >> # "You want weapons? We're in a library! Books! The best weapons in the >> # world! This room's the greatest arsenal we could have - arm yourselves!" >> # -- the Doctor: Doctor Who, Tooth and Claw, 2006 >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- # https://www.LuftHans.com https://www.PhxLinux.org # Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to # see it tried on him personally. -- Abraham Lincoln