Sweet Deal on an SSD Boot Device

hervon

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Bought i few of them to 'revive'a few old friend's laptops. No issues so far.
 

glauco

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I've been using one as my boot drive in Freenas since July last year. No problems so far.
 

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joeschmuck

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I have "a" (I'm sure it's not the exact same model since I purchased it years ago) Kingston SSD laying around somewhere and I've used it for ESXi, FreeNAS, Windoze, Ubuntu, and Sophos UTM. Never given me trouble. I think it's actually sitting in my Sophos Firewall right now. If I were to purchase a new drive, I'd grab the 240GB version fro $29.99 just because in my world I'd re-purpose the drive. Both drives are a fair price. And for that price I'm sure it's running off of an older/slower chipset which is perfectly acceptable.
 

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Does anyone have any experience with these particular drives?
They're DRAMless TLC drives, which use a portion of their NAND as "simulated SLC" for a write cache. They fall over under sustained writes, and also have a lot of write amplification as a result.

This makes them good candidates for a boot drive for an OS or very light usage in a family computer, but they'll get swamped under heavier usage. Definitely not suitable for use as general vdev devices, and putting one as a log device would probably cause its lifespan to be measured in days.

Fine choice for a boot device though, and the capacity lets them be repurposed down the road in another machine if desired. Might be a passable cache device as well.
 
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