SSD
SATA vs NVMe pricing
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SATA SSDs have their high price because a plastic case is involved, NVMe have high price because they deliver better performance.
SATA SSDs
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Unless you are doing some ML training on datasets of hundreds of gigabytes, a NVMe SSD is not very necessary and a SATA SSD is pretty good enough.
Cheap chinese SSD from eBay (story sort of a review)
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Bought a cheap chinese SATA SSD of 4TB from eBay.
About Storage Spaces
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ntfs.com has a nice section about Windows Storage Spaces at https://www.ntfs.com/wss-
HDD and SSD health reporting tool
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Best I've tried so far is CrystalDiskInfo.
ReTrim SSDs from command line
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