Prices Dropping (Page 2): Hello Ecobin--I hope all is well with you and yours. I have a question maybe you can help me with. I have a Dell Inspiron 3847, no longer in use with a unused...

Huggins36

Hello Ecobin--I hope all is well with you and yours. I have a question maybe you can help me with. I have a Dell Inspiron 3847, no longer in use with a unused Samsung 850 ssd installed. I purchased a new Dell Inspiron 3880. My question is, will the Samsung ssd be compatible with the new Dell 3880? Thank you for any help in this matter. Tom M

bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada

ecobin wrote:

I bought a Seagate portable 5TB SSD from Costco when it was on sale for $89. I've been using it several times a week to store my photos and rename my older ones (I'm doing a full cleanup of all photos - may take the rest of my life). It's very fast, no sound or heat and works via the computer USB 3 (no AC). That's real cheap and I believe it's quality. Subsequently I bought 3 more from Costco (for my wife and each daughter) - everyone loves it and replaced their mechanical backups with this.

Not a chance that is a SSD drive! If it was labelled as such, you got took!!

bwa

Brian S. Loc: Oak Park, MI

Huggins36 wrote:

Hello Ecobin--I hope all is well with you and yours. I have a question maybe you can help me with. I have a Dell Inspiron 3847, no longer in use with a unused Samsung 850 ssd installed. I purchased a new Dell Inspiron 3880. My question is, will the Samsung ssd be compatible with the new Dell 3880? Thank you for any help in this matter. Tom M

Tom the people you should be asking is Dell. The answers from all of the good folks here will just be a guess. Dell has great tech support. You will then be able to use the old internal SSD in an enclosure via USB. Check for enclosures at Other World Computing, MacSales.com (they deal in both Macintosh and Windows peripherals) ... That's what I did when I upgraded a laptop recently from 500GB internal to 1TB and now i have the 500GB external like one big flash drive.

Good Luck

Brian S. Loc: Oak Park, MI

joecichjr wrote:

I'm sure it costs basically very little to make an SSD.... This is them - the companies - cashing in

Joe, Where and How did you gain the knowledge/information to be able to make the above statement? Really looking forward to your reply.

Thank you

Huggins36

Ok-Thanks for your sound advice--I didn't think of contacting Dell which I most certainly will do. Thanks again.

Nigel7 Loc: Worcestershire. UK.

ecobin wrote:

I bought a Seagate portable 5TB SSD from Costco when it was on sale for $89. I've been using it several times a week to store my photos and rename my older ones (I'm doing a full cleanup of all photos - may take the rest of my life). It's very fast, no sound or heat and works via the computer USB 3 (no AC). That's real cheap and I believe it's quality. Subsequently I bought 3 more from Costco (for my wife and each daughter) - everyone loves it and replaced their mechanical backups with this.

Prices will be different here in the UK but the cheaper SSDs are USB or SATA versions giving a read speed of around 550MB/Sec. If you want real speed, and if your computer motherboard has an M2 connection, something like the Samsung 970 EVO will give around 3500MB/Sec read speed. Costs more but you get what you pay for. However a computer is only as fast as its slowest component so you need a good quality motherboard etc. to get the full benefit.

Bill_de Loc: US

jerryc41 wrote:

Prices for hard drives and SSDs have always been dropping, so that's nothing new. What I find interesting is the price difference between an HDD and an SSD. For about $60, I can get a 2TB HDD or a 500GB SSD. Consider the construction of each. That hard drive has lots of hardware - platters, magnets, wiring, circuit boards, etc. The SSD has nothing but a couple of circuit boards. I wonder how much of the price difference is because of demand for the SSD.

Nothing new. When I got my first digital camera, a D1x, I had to buy CF cards. The only thing we could afford were the IBM 1GB Microdrives. I forget the price, but the solid state equivalent were multiples of the Microdrives.

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hookedupin2005 Loc: Northwestern New Mexico

f8lee wrote:

What you bought is not a Solid State Drive (SSD) but rather a spinning platter Hard Disk Drive (HDD). So your comment has absolutely nothing to do with Jerry's original post.

In point of fact, nobody offers a 5TB SSD today, at least not a the consumer level.

How about an 8TB SSD? https://www.amazon.com/VectoTech-Rapid-External-USB-C-Portable/dp/B08HGH9HK6

bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada

hookedupin2005 wrote:

How about an 8TB SSD? https://www.amazon.com/VectoTech-Rapid-External-USB-C-Portable/dp/B08HGH9HK6

Definitely not for $89!

bwa

Chian Kho

jerryc41 wrote:

Prices for hard drives and SSDs have always been dropping, so that's nothing new. What I find interesting is the price difference between an HDD and an SSD. For about $60, I can get a 2TB HDD or a 500GB SSD. Consider the construction of each. That hard drive has lots of hardware - platters, magnets, wiring, circuit boards, etc. The SSD has nothing but a couple of circuit boards. I wonder how much of the price difference is because of demand for the SSD.

New gadget on the block: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ecllpse-unbreakable-high-speed-portable-ssd?utm_source=TCF&utm_medium=Google#/

Ecclpse: Thumbdrive formfactor 2TB with advertised lightning transfer speed of 540mb/S and water proof...MSRP US120.00

Chian