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Originally Posted by Quoth
Many consumer tablet and laptop SSD use the same chip technology as used internally in USB sticks and SD cards. Even some SATA SSD are the same technology of Flash.
Unless you are paying very serious money a 500 Gbyte 5400 RPM WD "Black" drive is longer life and faster sequential write and read. The cheap SSD only "win" on small random reads and almost all SSD / Flash can die completely without warning. Often SMART gives advance warning on HDD, and even then much can be recovered. A 1T HDD is next best option. Avoid HAMR and Shingled drives.
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Dunno what you mean by serious money but you can get decent 500GB SSDs for $60-80 (Crucial MX500, Samsung 860 EVO, WD Blue 3D).
My old Intel X25-M G2s are still chugging along. They're a lot slower compared to new SSDs but they work (although I've just been use them as external drives for a while now after upgrading to larger capacity SSDs on the PCs). I've had more motherboard and HDD failures than SSDs. *knock on wood* On my laptops, the HDDs almost always failed 2-3 months after warranty expired.