{"id":1190676,"date":"2023-10-10T13:38:50","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T17:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1190676"},"modified":"2023-10-10T13:38:50","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T17:38:50","slug":"reviewer-tests-3-sata-ssd-gets-exactly-what-they-paid-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1190676","title":{"rendered":"Reviewer tests $3 SATA SSD, gets exactly what they paid for"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Enlarge<\/a> \/<\/span> The 120GB SSD in question. (credit: AliExpress<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

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As we’ve detailed here at Ars before, there are some sketchy SSDs<\/a> sold online. They tempt the unsuspecting with supremely low prices, but in the end, all you’re guaranteed is disappointing speeds. Heck, you might not even get solid-state storage\u2014one popular scam passes off microSD cards as cheap SSDs<\/a>. So what can you expect to get from a 120GB SATA SSD selling for $3?<\/p>\n

StorageReview went through the remarkable journey of testing a $3 SSD from AliExpress<\/a> (linking only to show the product listing. Don’t buy this SSD, of course). The Goldenfir-brand SSD was reportedly given to the storage site by one of its Discord users for testing.<\/p>\n

A $3 SSD, tested<\/h2>\n

StorageReview tested the drive by putting it into a Lenovo SR635 1U server with an AMD Epyc 7742 processor and 512GB of DDR4-3200 RAM.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\nSource: Ars Technica – Reviewer tests SATA SSD, gets exactly what they paid for<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Enlarge \/ The 120GB SSD in question. (credit: AliExpress) As we’ve detailed here at Ars before, there are some sketchy SSDs sold online. They tempt the unsuspecting with supremely low prices, but in the end, all you’re guaranteed is disappointing … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1190677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1190676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1190676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1190677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1190676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1190676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1190676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}