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Buy WD Red SATA SSDs now because new ones aren't being made

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beta onyx legend
  12/11/25
link
floppy step-uncle's house
  12/11/25
https://a.co/d/iyImxpx 1 and 2tb are on back order, but t...
beta onyx legend
  12/11/25
shouldnt u get the normal harddrive if you write a lot
floppy step-uncle's house
  12/11/25
Go ahead and build a NAS with no cache drives. Host Ollama o...
beta onyx legend
  12/11/25
does inference training destroy the ssd in the end hto?
floppy step-uncle's house
  12/11/25
How the fuck would I know I'm only gonna have 48gb of VRAM w...
beta onyx legend
  12/11/25
is VRAM the most fastest? also why not buy the Tinygrad Tiny...
floppy step-uncle's house
  12/11/25
If it's not Nvidia it's a fucking joke. I wouldn't pay $5 fo...
beta onyx legend
  12/12/25
is it CUDA or drivers or motherboard support
floppy step-uncle's house
  12/12/25
Yes
beta onyx legend
  12/12/25
I have an OPTANE
Motley milk
  12/12/25
180 but are they nvme interface?
beta onyx legend
  12/12/25
yes, but the PCIe optanes are incredibly overpriced now. I c...
Motley milk
  12/15/25
180 I bought that same adapter by accident and don't have an...
beta onyx legend
  12/15/25
1 and 2tb capacities are sold out now, got dat "saved w...
beta onyx legend
  12/15/25
Walmart has some 1tb in stock: https://www.walmart.com/ip...
beta onyx legend
  12/15/25
Amazon has some 2tb drives but they are significantly more e...
beta onyx legend
  12/29/25


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Date: December 11th, 2025 2:25 AM
Author: beta onyx legend



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5808974&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=4593694",#49501243)



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Date: December 11th, 2025 3:27 AM
Author: floppy step-uncle's house

link

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5808974&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=4593694",#49501251)



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Date: December 11th, 2025 9:14 PM
Author: beta onyx legend

https://a.co/d/iyImxpx

1 and 2tb are on back order, but the very fact that you can get them at all is amazing. The write endurance on these is like 4-8x any other consumer SSD.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5808974&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=4593694",#49503338)



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Date: December 11th, 2025 9:17 PM
Author: floppy step-uncle's house

shouldnt u get the normal harddrive if you write a lot

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5808974&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=4593694",#49503353)



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Date: December 11th, 2025 9:29 PM
Author: beta onyx legend

Go ahead and build a NAS with no cache drives. Host Ollama on a hard drive and load 16gb models into VRAM

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5808974&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=4593694",#49503384)



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Date: December 11th, 2025 9:38 PM
Author: floppy step-uncle's house

does inference training destroy the ssd in the end hto?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5808974&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=4593694",#49503405)



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Date: December 11th, 2025 9:39 PM
Author: beta onyx legend

How the fuck would I know I'm only gonna have 48gb of VRAM when my second 3090 gets here on Monday. I went with the MSI this time

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5808974&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=4593694",#49503410)



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Date: December 11th, 2025 10:11 PM
Author: floppy step-uncle's house

is VRAM the most fastest? also why not buy the Tinygrad Tinybox for $10k they have all the drivers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5808974&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=4593694",#49503499)



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Date: December 12th, 2025 12:20 AM
Author: beta onyx legend

If it's not Nvidia it's a fucking joke. I wouldn't pay $5 for non-nvidia to do AI bitch please

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5808974&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=4593694",#49503704)



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Date: December 12th, 2025 12:52 AM
Author: floppy step-uncle's house

is it CUDA or drivers or motherboard support

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5808974&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=4593694",#49503736)



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Date: December 12th, 2025 7:28 AM
Author: beta onyx legend

Yes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5808974&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=4593694",#49503922)



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Date: December 12th, 2025 12:54 AM
Author: Motley milk

I have an OPTANE

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5808974&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=4593694",#49503738)



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Date: December 12th, 2025 7:29 AM
Author: beta onyx legend

180 but are they nvme interface?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5808974&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=4593694",#49503923)



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Date: December 15th, 2025 1:56 AM
Author: Motley milk

yes, but the PCIe optanes are incredibly overpriced now. I copped the datacenter edition (u.2) and an adapter.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072JK2XLC

While researching I was immediately worried that an (((adapter))) might do translation/compression and bottlekneck my i/o speed somehow which would defeat the entire purpose of getting an optane...Can confirm it does not, and I am getting insane performance on non sequential workloads I designate to it. soooo CR

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CrystalDiskInfo 9.7.2 Aoi Edition x64 (C) 2008-2025 hiyohiyo

Crystal Dew World: https://crystalmark.info/

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-- Disk List ---------------------------------------------------------------

(01) Dell Express Flash NVMe P4800X 750GB SFF : 750.1 GB [2/1/0, sq] - nv

(02) Samsung SSD 860 EVO 500GB : 500.1 GB [1/0/0, pd1] - sg

(03) Samsung SSD 990 EVO Plus 2TB : 2000.3 GB [3/2/0, sq] - nv

(04) Samsung SSD 860 EVO 500GB : 500.1 GB [0/0/0, pd1] - sg

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(01) Dell Express Flash NVMe P4800X 750GB SFF

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Model : Dell Express Flash NVMe P4800X 750GB SFF

Firmware : E201DP31

Serial Number :

Disk Size : 750.1 GB

Interface : NVM Express

Standard : NVM Express 1.0/1.1

Transfer Mode : PCIe 3.0 x4 | PCIe 3.0 x4

Power On Hours : 12508 hours

Power On Count : 835 count

Host Reads : 54230 GB

Host Writes : 90801 GB

Temperature : 42 C (107 F)

Health Status : Good (100 %)

Features : S.M.A.R.T., TRIM

Drive Letter : C:



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5808974&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=4593694",#49510390)



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Date: December 15th, 2025 4:42 PM
Author: beta onyx legend

180 I bought that same adapter by accident and don't have any drives that are compatible with it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5808974&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=4593694",#49511847)



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Date: December 15th, 2025 1:08 AM
Author: beta onyx legend

1 and 2tb capacities are sold out now, got dat "saved with used." It's over

https://a.co/d/1LeX7QE

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5808974&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=4593694",#49510347)



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Date: December 15th, 2025 4:40 PM
Author: beta onyx legend

Walmart has some 1tb in stock:

https://www.walmart.com/ip/906676280?sid=921c1418-31d8-43f1-82f0-a46a26654be9

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5808974&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=4593694",#49511843)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 4:48 PM
Author: beta onyx legend

Amazon has some 2tb drives but they are significantly more expensive than when I started this thread.

https://a.co/d/aYlJdF3

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5808974&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=4593694",#49547857)