Hello, my question is: is there big difderwnce in making m.2 nvme disk with storage of 250gb instead of 1TB or more? Maybe it is stupid question. Is there physical difference?

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[–] 14 points 10 months ago (8 children)

I can’t tell if you’re arguing in favor or against smaller capacity drives but personally I’d like to see smaller sizes on the market for devices that don’t need a freaking terabyte of storage. When I was shopping for a small mini PC I use as a router I couldn’t find anything smaller than 256 GB so I settled for booting Alpine Linux into RAM (“diskless”) from a USB drive.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Agreed. Was looking for a micro SD for my Raspberry Pi and can’t find anything in local retail stores beneath 128GB which seems like overkill for my use-case.

    And same for bootable flash drives. I hate having to use 64GB instead of a 8GB which are no longer easy to find in local retail stores. I’d settle for 16GB at this point!

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    I look for high endurance drives which are intended for use with pi's, dash cams, etc. they tend to come in smaller sizes due to the endurance requirements.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    That’s actually what I went with. A Samsung Pro Endurance and specifically for the reason you cited since it’ll be on 24/7. But 128GB was the smallest my local store had. It was only $20 USD.

    I’m sure Amazon has them in smaller varieties, but I rather go to brick and mortar.

    I feel I could have gone much lower for capacity and cost and it would have been a better choice for this purpose.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    Earlier this year I needed a SSD for a PC I was going to use as a router. The smallest drive Microcenter had was 256 GB, which was massive overkill. It was also priced at $19, so I was like whatever and bought it.

    With the massive increases in price for flash memory, maybe we'll start seeing smaller drives again.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    I got a miniPC 5 years ago that had a 128GB SSD in it that I used like that. When I went to get a second one last year, the same price point came with 1TB. I got it and swapped out the storage and stuck it in an external case.

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