Netac Sata SSD. Anyone used?

[matt167]

I just ordered a Netac 256gb sata drive for my plex boot drive because it had a good sale going making it basically the cheapest could buy without going for an obvious fake drive, I used one in my fiancés old laptop and it works but I re vitalized that laptop as a backup. So while it works it’s rarely used. I’m second guessing my decision to go so cheap for a computer which has a power on time of basically 98%. Anyone use one successfully?

 

[sinisterDei]

I've used a Netac before. One thing that'll help you out here, there aren't that many companies out there that make SSD controllers and NAND, so while buying a nearly-no-name drive will perhaps impact your ability to RMA a drive in the case of a failure, the actual drive itself is almost certainly made by a larger OEM with industry standard parts. As long as it isn't outright fake, and as long as you don't hammer it with writes (which a PLEX server would not do) then I suspect you'll be fine!

 

[matt167]

I do stream light games off of it to the living room tv As I put a somewhat capable graphics card in it. But the games are on an external drive.

I had almost the same thinking being there are only a few manufacturers of memory and controllers. All together I think it was $18

 

[sinisterDei]

Your use case sounds perfect for a cheap SSD. I'd say you'll be perfectly fine. Remember, reading from a SSD has essentially zero impact on the drive endurance, it is only writes that wear out the endurance.

 

[matt167]

Cool, so I’m not going to stress about it and install it. It’s the only computer I have still booting off a spinner

 

[daglesj]

They have been around a while so not a fly by night brand

 

[matt167]

I’ll report the speeds when I get it. The only reason I got it over something like a Team group or patriot is because I let my Prime expire so I couldn’t get one with free shipping. So it came from Ebay

 

[matt167]

Update. No speeds yet as I just got the migration done. But seems very fast. Also the case is metal on this one

 

[porthas]

if your device is mostly used as a boot drive, then a SATA interface should work fine, it will give you a noticeable performance boost compared to a traditional hard drive.