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Looking to buy an external hard drive to put my games on. One that I can leave plugged in without it overheating and destroying itself. Have looked at a few, but reviews have me skeptical. Don’t want to waste my money lol. If any of you have one that you’ve been using without problems, or know of a newer one you’d trust, please let me know. Want to free up some space on my SSD, as my games are taking up quite the space. Would be for my pc running windows 10. Thank you in advance! All advice is greatly appreciated!
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hi:) today i wanted to change my harddrive with a SDD in my laptop to get a bit more performance. Tought it would take me not more than 2 hours.... hahah it took me 8 hours. tried to take a clone of my harddrive and put it onto the new SSD, but finally after 7 hours of trying and trying, i installed a new windows version onto my ssd im not a computer nooby(at least i thought so ) but i was really annoyed of this thing. Did you tried to change replace your harddrive and copy a clone of your old on to it? OR what was your biggest computer problem?? Cheers TomTom aka JAmesRyan
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Intel is chalking out a wide range of price cuts for its consumer SSD families, which will likely take effect in August. The updated pricing will see prices go down by as much as 37 percent. Prices of several models in the SSD 320, SSD 330, and SSD 520 series, are on the chopping block. Reliable sources told VR-Zone that Intel is chalking out a wide range of price cuts for its consumer SSD families, which will likely take effect in August. The updated pricing will see prices go down by as much as 37 percent. Prices of several models in the SSD 320, SSD 330, and SSD 520 families, are on the chopping block. To begin with, prices of most lower-capacity models of the SSD 320 series remain untouched. It's the 300 GB and 600 GB models that Intel is after. Given its mainsteam performance, buyers need a bigger incentive to buy higher capacity SSD 320 drives. Each of the two are available in four packages, spanning two form-factors: 2.5-inch 9.5 mm-thick, and 2.5-inch 7 mm-thick. The OEM price (in multi-unit quantity) of the SSD 320 300 GB is slated to go down from US $499 to $444, a 11% cut. The retail package (off-shelf) of the drive is expected to go down from $519 to $464. The SSD 320 600 GB, on the other hand, will see its OEM price drop from $1,039 to $859; and retail price from $1,059 down to $879. The business end of these price cuts focus on SSD 520 series, the performance-segment consumer SSD family from Intel. Most popular capacity variants, such as 60 GB, 180 GB, 240 GB, and 480 GB, are slated for price-cuts: SSD 520 60 GB: OEM price down from $99 to $89; Reseller pack down from $109 to $99 (9% cut) SSD 520 120 GB: OEM price down from $179 to $129; Reseller pack down from $189 to $139 (26.4% cut) SSD 520 180 GB: OEM price down from $269 to $189; Reseller pack down from $279 to $199 (28.6% cut) SSD 520 240 GB: OEM price down from $339 to $249; Reseller pack down from $349 to $259 (25.8% cut) SSD 520 480 GB: OEM price down from $799 to $494; Reseller pack down from $809 to $594 (37.7% cut) Prices of Intel's newest mainstream SSD line, the SSD 330 series, are also boud for cuts. In fact the most interesting pack of cuts target this series: SSD 330 60 GB: Reseller pack price down from $94 to $69 (26.5% cut) SSD 330 120 GB: Reseller pack price down from $149 to $104 (30.2% cut) SSD 330 180 GB: Reseller pack price down from $234 to $154 (34.1% cut) In all, Intel is making an effort to capture large swathes of the market with these prices, to compete with other players in the consumer SSD market. Many of these prices are already in effect with competitors' SSDs, respective to the capacities, in markets such as the US. All prices mentioned above are in USD, excluding taxes, and the OEM prices are price-per-unit in multi-unit quantities. source
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SSD prices in steady, substantial decline On all too many occasions, we've bemoaned the state of hard drive prices. They rose sharply after last year's Thailand flooding and still haven't returned to what many of us would consider normal. There is good news on the storage front, though. The current generation of solid-state drives is cheaper than ever, with multiple models living comfortably below the dollar-per-gigabyte threshold. To get a better sense of the SSD picture, we've analyzed a mountain of pricing information dating from early 2011 to Tuesday. The folks at Camelegg graciously provided the data, which we've sliced, diced, and compiled in pretty graphs. Camelegg tracks prices at Newegg, which should give us a good sense of what's going on in the overall market. Originally, I had hoped to combine a stack of SSDs in one massive graph. Turns out that was completely unreadable. With most drive makers competing aggressively on price, there was far too much overlap. Instead, we'll tackle the most popular drives one by one. To make comparisons a little easier, all of the graphs stick to the same scale. The selection has been limited to include only the SSDs we've reviewed. In most cases, we've looked at the price of three capacities. source
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Solid state drives, a critical component in many thin, high-density storage mobile devices, could see dramatic price drops in the coming months due to a burgeoning price was among the major SSD suppliers. According to DigiTimes, Taiwan industry sourcesin Indicating that are large suppliers are preparing to drop prices on SSDs precipitously. The price drop would come as part of a move to push smaller suppliers out of the SSD market, as the leading producers are rumored SSD to be concerned that inferior drives produced by smaller players could stall development of the SSD market. Cutting prices, then, would lower margins to the point where only the larger players could survive. DigiTimes' sources name Kingston, Intel, OCZ, and Crucial as the firms looking to lower SSD prices. So far, none of the manufacturers has commented on the rumor. Additionally, the price drop could aid the drive makers in pushing adoption of the new Serial Advanced Technology Attachment standard, SATA3. Allows for more compact SATA3, higher speed drives, and a faster transition to the standard baseline could see storage capacities in SSD-based devices increase from the current 32GB and 64GB to 128GB and 256GB. SATA3-based drives are already available, but the major drive manufacturers hope to accelerate adoption of the standard even more. source
