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“We just lost 3TB of data on a SanDisk Extreme SSD” - The Verge (www.theverge.com)

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Anyone else have a similar experience with one of these drives?

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[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

My external SSD I put together with a “nice” enclosure started dropping to 5MB/s on any machine. I don’t trust most external SSDs anymore.

I DO trust my RPi case with built-in m.2 USB adapter thingy, as it’s running full speed in that thing, no issues with speed dropping.

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 3 points 1 year ago

I'd like to know more about this adapter thingy.

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

Oh it’s AMAZING. It’s an expensive case for the Raspberry Pi 4 models, called Argon. It’s 45USD or so. BUT! It CHANGES THE SHITTY MICRO HDMI PORTS INTO TWO REAL HDMI PORTS!

It also has a little slot for an m.2 SSD inside it, and a tiny USB connector to make it work with a Pi. You can super easily boot from SSD and use a microsd as extra storage. It’s like 10x faster than microSD, it’s wild.

I had bought a different case (that honestly I love) but when I read about this one, I fell in love. Only problem is it only takes SATA m.2 drives, which happened to be the kind in my shitty enclosure.

[-] jadedwench@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I did something similar and use these UGreen enclosures with an M.2 on each RPi in my cluster. You can easily use these as portable media with whatever SSD you want.

Sorry, on mobile and have no idea how to strip the Amazon link properly. This is the older model I got.

UGreen on Amazon

You can buy straight from them as well. Never had an issue with any of their products. https://www.ugreen.com/collections/hubs-docks/products/ugreen-m-2-nvme-sata-ssd-enclosure-reader?variant=39915665129534

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