Steam Deck Gets Decent Price Cut During Steam Summer Sale

[HOkay]

Thanks for the recommendation, but I still don't trust WD after the whole SMR NAS HDD incident. They've proven they can't be trusted. It's pretty sad, they used to be my go-to storage brand.

Fair enough, I look at individual products & judge them on their own merits & so far this drive has been great in my Deck, SO much faster than the 64GB PoS that came with it!

 

[Zareek]

I had this same argument with myself.

Me as well, but I'm not happy with the direction Windows is going. The only reason my home PC is still on Windows is for gaming. It's time to put some money and time into this alternative.

 

[Chrispy_]

Thanks for the recommendation, but I still don't trust WD after the whole SMR NAS HDD incident. They've proven they can't be trusted. It's pretty sad, they used to be my go-to storage brand.

WD's SSD division is unrelated to mechanical storage - It's Sandisk with the WD label because WD bought out Sandisk.

Your choices for 2230 single-sided drives is extremely limited. If you don't like WD, you either need to go Samsung, Hynix or Sabrent.

Well, 30% more, & you don't have to worry about getting a fake yeah. I highly doubt Scan get their stock from AliExpress if that's what you're suggesting? I don't think "reputable" is the right word, "safer" fits better, but you're covered by consumer protection if it's a UK seller so that's probably still safer, though maybe you'd get your money back quicker/not lose your money with the others. Maybe it's got better in recent years, I've seen the amount of fake crap my dad has got from AliExpress & just avoided it for a while now. SD cards are the classic one, programmed to say one size but are actually way smaller & you don't realise until you try & read stuff back & it's garbage!

You do you.
I've had fake flash drives from Amazon.co.uk and Scan.co.uk. NAND fakes are rife throughout the SSD, SDcard, and USB flash drive market.

On AliExpress, the seller doesn't get paid until you've tested the drive, confirmed it was as advertised, and marked it as "accepted". How you get scammed by that system is a mystery to me.

 

[HOkay]

On AliExpress, the seller doesn't get paid until you've tested the drive, confirmed it was as advertised, and marked it as "accepted". How you get scammed by that system is a mystery to me.

How do you test an SSD is as advertised though? You can do a few benchmarks to check the speeds if you've got some reference data to compare to for that drive. To check the capacity though you'd have to fill & read back the entire drive, or at least half the drive to get pretty confident it's the right size. My worry would be finding out months later that it's fake. Have you ever used the refunds process on AliExpress? Genuine question as I haven't used it & would like to know.

 

[Chrispy_]

How do you test an SSD is as advertised though? You can do a few benchmarks to check the speeds if you've got some reference data to compare to for that drive. To check the capacity though you'd have to fill & read back the entire drive, or at least half the drive to get pretty confident it's the right size. My worry would be finding out months later that it's fake. Have you ever used the refunds process on AliExpress? Genuine question as I haven't used it & would like to know.

I've never had to use the refunds process on AliExpress, no.

If it's a fake it's unlikely to be generating decent write performance but a sequential write test should use more than half the drive in about half an hour. Crystal Diskmark can sequential write a 64GB test file. All you have to do is dump a photo on the drive at the beginning, test 64GB, copy and paste the 64GB file over and over again and then see if the photo still opens.

 

[chrcoluk]

Seems like a fair bit of the UK stock went on Ebay...

Not surprised, thats what my fellow brits do now, country full of greed.