Cheap 120GB SSD

[Ed P]

” Loads of videos and photos he’s taken to show prospective customers, way too much for 120GB so had to order a 240GB.”

Re: Snail-like Win10 — Check out that it isn’t the nasty Photos app + Cortana +File Indexing. The former is deadly at all times while the latter two can take days to stop poking around. I personally zap them from the start as they do nothing for me. Making Photos never use background helps a lot.

[Dave Rice]

It’s definitely a failed HDD, I always run manufacturers diagnostics on the HDD. Data Lifeguard failed it on even the simple tests.

Absolutely flying along with the WD Green SSD (Amazon same day £50).

[Dave Rice]

PC coming in this evening that’s showing it’s age. Should be a prime candidate for a 120 GB SSD even if it’s for a new machine. I’m not counting my chickens though…

EDIT – damn! half of a 500GB drive being used.

[Boris]

Just seen that you can get a Kingston A400 120GB SSD for £29.92 from Ebuyer (add delivery cost).

Limited 3-year warranty

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Never trust an atom - they make up everything !

[Dave Rice]

That Kingston is also on Prime for  £29.92.

The last build was for the home PC of a small accountancy business I’ve been helping. So impressed with the speed of the new PC, he’s thinking about upgrading the 4 office PCs ? Now I know they have very little data on them as we’ve spent the last 18 months getting them all working from server shares.

[Jukebox]

Following the helpful info from you guys for which I thank you, I bought one of these for my 2011 Samsung laptop. Boot up time now 24 seconds and its much snappier in use. One other benefit which I don’t think has been mentioned is the increased time between battery charges – I haven’t actually done an accurate check but at a rough guess a charge is now lasting getting on for twice as long as with the spinner. I’ve now bought another of these SSDs for my g-daughter’s lappy!

[PlaneMan]

£22.46 now with code MYMEM. Also makes the 240gb version £44.99

[Ed P]

I’m very happy with the use of my purchase with a Pi 3B. It completely eliminated the SD card weak spot.

I just hope that the Raspberry Pi foundation takes a leaf out of the Firefly’s spec list and includes USB3 or an SSD socket in the Pi4.

[Dave Rice]

Got myself a San Disk encrypted 32GB USB 3.1 stick for £9

Nothing is leaving my house unencrypted any more. I’ve even set up an encrypted share on the Synology specifically for customer backups.

Maybe paranoia but it’s only cost me £14 to implement, £5 on a W10 Pro for the laptop and £9 for the USB stick. Now if I leave anything on the bus there will be no data breach to report.

[Drezha]

Dave Rice wrote:

Got myself a San Disk encrypted 32GB USB 3.1 stick for £9 Nothing is leaving my house unencrypted any more. I’ve even set up an encrypted share on the Synology specifically for customer backups. Maybe paranoia but it’s only cost me £14 to implement, £5 on a W10 Pro for the laptop and £9 for the USB stick. Now if I leave anything on the bus there will be no data breach to report.

 

I’ve been like that for a while. Bitlocker for the USB hard drive I carry between work and home and if I need to use the USB on the Mac, then I use Cryptomator.

"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett

[Tippon]

Dave Rice wrote:

Got myself a San Disk encrypted 32GB USB 3.1 stick for £9

Have you got a link please? Does it work with other OSes than Windows 10?

[Dave Rice]

They are here http://tinyurl.com/yd48qml5 the one I got is Windows and Mac which seems pretty standard but the Corsair Padlock will work with Linux too (it has a keypad built in).

Following Drezhas post I’ve just started encrypting a normal stick with Bitlocker. See how that works later.

[Dave Rice]

Now have the 32GB SanDisk. It’s software just creates a vault (secure folder) on the stick. You run a portable exe from the stick to run the software. This screws up when it updates itself (rename the file back to the original sorts it).

My conclusion: pay a fiver to an E-Bay seller to buy a Windows 10 Pro licence (10 minute non destructive upgrade from Home) and use BitLocker on any cheap USB stick.

From what I can find out the Linux solution is totally Linux only and a cludge at that – so if you need something truly o/s dependant you need one with a keypad on it. They can be expensive.

[Drezha]

That’s the conclusion I’ve come to after a number of years looking around. Each individual OS works pretty well, if you only want to use that stick on one OS (i.e. Filevault for Mac, Bitlocker for Windows and EncFS or similar for Linux). However, cross platform, things fall down pretty quick – I’ve used Truecrypt/Veracrypt in the past, and I’ve used Cryptomator more recently, as it seems a bit easier on the CPU on a couple of my devices (one being my Mac Mini).

"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett

[Tippon]

Thanks Dave 🙂

I’ve got Pro on my main computer, so I’ll give it a try this week.

[Drezha]

Point to note, to use Bitlocker easily, you’ll need a TPM chip on the motherboard – my gaming rigs don’t have this so I couldn’t use Bitlocker on the system drive, without creating a USB boot stick. However, creating a Bitlocker drive to use on different machines is fine – I used my work machine to create the encrypt the USB stick and it works fine on machines with TPM chips.

"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett

[Dave Rice]

You can get TPM chips for most motherboards. I believe they don’t have to be from the same OEM but there are 2 different types (number of pins) and cost less than a tenner.

Most modern laptops seem to have a “virtual” TPM which I believe is part of the Intel chipset.

[Boris]

Another new model to me – Lite-On MU3 Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) 2.5 inch SATA 3 – 120GB.  3D MLC NAND and 3 year warranty.  From 7dayshop.  £24.99 delivered.

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Never trust an atom - they make up everything !

[Boris]

Just found this too – Intenso  3813430 2.5″ SATA 120GB SSD – £23.98 Delivered

https://www.ebuyer.com/787170-intenso-2-5-sata-120gb-ssd-3813430#

Never trust an atom - they make up everything !

[PlaneMan]

The 240gb version of the Integral is now £41.61 with code BDAY15.

Apparently works with other stuff as well but it’s a minimum £30 spend.

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