Question for the computer experts

[tigdlo]

16TB SSD for £100 seems as hooky as a very hooky thing on a hooky day in Hooktown.

Free virus with every SSD harvesting nudey pics, that or recycled hardware.

 

[skotl]

16TB SSD for £100 seems as hooky as a very hooky thing on a hooky day in Hooktown.

100% that. Even "cheap" 1TB SSDs are still between £65 and £100, so a 16TB unit is not going to cost less than a grand.

Check out the reviews - all one star, often citing the problem with not being able to give zero stars!

I suspect these are probably much, much, much smaller units that have been hacked to report 16TB free space (which is relatively easy to do)

 

[skotl]

More info in a helpful but hard-to-read blog on "flash fraud" : https://fightflashfraud.wordpress.com/

And a site that points to some tools to detect fraudulent flash drives: https://cubiclenate.com/blatherings/fightflashfraud/

 

[ukracer]

16TB SSD for £100 seems as hooky as a very hooky thing on a hooky day in Hooktown.

That's what I thought...but its on amazon so you are fully covered.

Why are amazon allowing them a platform??

 

[skotl]

That's what I thought...but its on amazon so you are fully covered.

Why are amazon allowing them a platform??

Two thoughts on this. First off, it's whack-a-mole: Amazon have tens of millions of product lines from hundreds-of-thousands of suppliers so they're only marginally better in that respect than ebay.

Second, Amazon's customer service is excellent but it does vary depending on, bluntly, how much you have spent with them. Half my household earnings seems to go to Amazon (slight exaggeration, but...) and whenever I have had a problem they have refunded me the instant I hit submit on the complaint form. In around maybe a quarter of these cases they just tell me to bin or keep the item in question rather than return it.

That's not the experience of a some friends & family where I've noted that although they pretty much always get a refund, it's most commonly after they have returned the item.

That's not to pee on Amazon at all - I pretty much never buy from ebay any more not least because of the difference in their approach to customer service compared to Amazon. Just interesting that they tune their (very good service) based on situations & customers.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

For backup purposes, magnets (HDD) are more reliable.
SSD isn't as reliable for long term storage.

You can get SSDs aimed at long term use and storage, but you have to pay quite a bit more for them, and even then if you don't need the random read/write performance, HDD are cheaper and more reliable.

I concur. I've been using a mix of both for years.

Os on a small SSD. Another couple of small SSD for software/games.

Bulk storage. Music media pics etc on mech drives.

 

[Domdom]

SSD all the way for me, with encrypted cloud backup for the important stuff. I have boxes of magnetic disks which will go into the shredder one day. I would even give them away but wiping them first would be a mission.
On the enterprise side, I was reading about the coming mechanical disks and their capacities. It’s scary when we calculate the time to perform backups on them. Hate to think about a RAID set rebuilding after a drive failure. OK for deep archival, nothing else.

Seagate's Roadmap: The Path to 120 TB Hard Drives

www.anandtech.com

Seagate are looking to have 50TB drives within 3 years, on the same mechanicals which don’t do so well in an environment where they get a lot of access. Kind of defeats the object.
Put another way, if you have that much important data, storing it on a disk like SATA technology is fairly risky. OK for Cloud providers though where they have multiple levels of resilience.

 

[Kayos]

Two thoughts on this. First off, it's whack-a-mole: Amazon have tens of millions of product lines from hundreds-of-thousands of suppliers so they're only marginally better in that respect than ebay.

Second, Amazon's customer service is excellent but it does vary depending on, bluntly, how much you have spent with them. Half my household earnings seems to go to Amazon (slight exaggeration, but...) and whenever I have had a problem they have refunded me the instant I hit submit on the complaint form. In around maybe a quarter of these cases they just tell me to bin or keep the item in question rather than return it.

That's not the experience of a some friends & family where I've noted that although they pretty much always get a refund, it's most commonly after they have returned the item.

That's not to pee on Amazon at all - I pretty much never buy from ebay any more not least because of the difference in their approach to customer service compared to Amazon. Just interesting that they tune their (very good service) based on situations & customers.

I agree on the account usage

I bought a 4k camcorder, not cheap but certainly a bargain. When the Chinese plastic toy arrived, Amazon refunded me in a matter of minutes and told me to safely dispose of the camera

It came with an accessory set that still sells for £100, and my boy had great fun playing with it on days out

In my case, when the driver comes to my street, if he doesn't have anything for us he knocks to check if we are ok.......