60 or 120 gig ssd

[Mark Norville]

Hi Guys,

I was going to buy a 120 gig ssd for my jukebox, but the one that I wanted which was £45 is now out of stock, I had a look at kingdian 120 gig for the same price. Yet a 60 gig is £25.

Any thoughts about using a 60 gig for a jukebox I do not think that I would want to do much else so I am tempted.

Regards

Mark

[Barcrest]

If your board supports RAID get 2 60gigs and raid them for even quicker speeds. The board i brought to do this said it supported raid but when it came it didn't, i should have returned it was too much of PITA so I just used the one SSD as the boot drive.

[Mark Norville]

I am not that worried about speed really, I was going to buy to Sandisk SSD 120 gigs, but they went out of stock with Amazon, so https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B019WAWYH0/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A13TBMLBUZSVGS is cheap and cheerful and affordable so I can get my jukebox and gaming PC up and running.

The 60 gig I thinking windows 7, etouch, and then gimp so can carry on skinning for that resolution.

I would be tempted for a 60 gig in the arcade, but I think 120 would be needed.

I just want them running really as eye test next month, so might have to buy some glasses unless I plonk for NHS specs, either way I will look a dick just fancy something stylish if I have to wear them.

Pay day tomorrow so already burning a hole in my pocket.

[berrywell]

Hi Mark,

Personally, I would hold out for the 120GB disk, that little bit of extra space is a piece of mind.
By the time you've got the 60GB formatted you'll probably only have around 50GB left for use.


Regards

Tel.

[Mark Norville]

I don't really need that much space really apart from a skin and etouch, I cannot see what else I would have on there, the rate that these 60 gigs are going I might have to order 2 120 gigs anyway as I just want them all set up now.

I just hate leaving myself skint all the time, but I cannot rest until I am back operational

[Mark Norville]

Yeah it will definitely be a 120 gig one now, I just checked my home cinema PC and that is near enough 60 gigs and I hardly have anything installed on this. unless it is something to do with the plex server.

Well ok has to be 2 x 120 gig after all the 60 has now sold out from prime

[Barcrest]

If you raid 2 60gbs they will give you a 120gb partition with increased speed just more risk that if one goes the whole partition is gone. Still worth it for just the O/S and E-touch.

[Mark Norville]

I only have limited space for SATA's one space for OS and then the rest for storage. My jukebox machine used to be 6 sata's but I broke two so I only have four ports. I have a SATA card to enable four more, but too be honest, I found that when I used that I ended up having hard drive failure much faster than onboard sata.

At the moment I am running between 1 to 2 tb hard drives, but I am looking at upgrading those to 3 to 4 tb depending on how much money I have.

The juke is going to have one for albums, singles and music videos, even though I am still humming and arrring about karaoke as I never use it anyway, billy no mates me, but I still like collecting.

[Mark Norville]

Against my better judgement, I decided to buy two of these and make myself skint again https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01GPNZE4W/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

All of the SanDisk SSD's are either sold out or gone through the roof on price from third party sellers. I decided upon these, mainly because the price was good at just under £40 and also the fact that there were 100 five star reviews, and only 8 1 star reviews out of 128.

The other SSD I was looking at was about £2 more expensive and had fewer reviews, so was reasonably a no brainer.

Delivery tomorrow to Amazon locker so jukebox up and running finally before the weekend.

Not looking forward to getting back to tagging and sorting MP3's but glutton for punishment.

[berrywell]

Hey Mark,

How's this project going? Are the SSD you've purchased any good, assuming you've took delivery of them already?

I've got an ageing PC that I'd like to chuck a cheap one in, just thought I'd ask what your initial impression is?

[Barcrest]

Every pc i have put an SSD in has improved in performance quite noticeably.

[Mark Norville]

All delivered and installed in two PC's I did notice something last night that I was not happy with.

I will check later on at some point, but I was playing this morning as could not sleep, I got the arcade machine working, and I ran a system check

The new SSD was about 5.3 in Windows rating, yet one of my SanDisk drives is 7.3 so a massive 2% drop in terms of speed.

I will check my 120 sandisk and have a look at the other new hard drive and see if it is the same.

I cannot see it making that much of a difference but if you don't mind spending an extra £5 Sandisks are good.

I am messing around all weekend as the juke is 100% with 1 SSD and then 3 hard drives for storage, I want to increase the storage at a later date but it is operational for now.

Shall shut up here, as just woke up

[Mark Norville]

Just checked the jukebox and the hard drive in that is the same as the one that I brought for the jukebox and I am getting a massive difference

In Jukebox 7.4 for rating disc drive being 7.4

In Arcade 5.3 for rating disc drive

I will have to swap them around and see if one is buggered.

[Barcrest]

Just checked the jukebox and the hard drive in that is the same as the one that I brought for the jukebox and I am getting a massive difference

In Jukebox 7.4 for rating disc drive being 7.4

In Arcade 5.3 for rating disc drive

I will have to swap them around and see if one is buggered.

Could be the sata port you are using are they both sata III?

[Mark Norville]

Yeah both using sata 3, but I noticed something weird earlier, I was 7.4 for ssd, then I done another refresh for system, and it went down to 7.2 I think it might be because they are a small make, rather than Sandisk, still they work so that is the main thing.

Only negative thing so far is trying to get everything back up and running once more, I am having to re teach myself every thing, including tagging as not done anything since before Christmas, and my memory is shocking.

I have so much crap every where, I am finding stuff I do not want and not finding what I do want. Frustrating.