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?

  • NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com
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    23 hours ago

    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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      18 hours ago

      You can make a ventoy drive with multiple isos on it. I have a 120gb sata SSD with USB adapter full of various isos.

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      23 hours ago

      Exactly! It just feels so wasteful. I imagine it’s to sell a higher capacity at greater cost for higher profit.

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      20 hours ago

      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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        18 hours 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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      22 hours ago

      Really? Are you excluding places like staples, and office depot? And walgreens?

      I see walgreens sell 16gb microsd cards for $70.

      You can get them small. You just gotta agree to get ripped off.