Ordered a cheapish 1tb Kingston m.2 SSD on amazon. Delayed twice because of prime day and then crowdstrike.
It finally arrived today and it looks like the inner packaging (not the padded amazon mailer, the kingston-branded cardboard-and-plastic thing) got run over by a truck repeatedly. The plastic around the drive is dented and scratched to shit and the cardboard is bent in 4 different places. Seriously, it looks like someone picked it up off of the warehouse floor after a forklift went over it.
This is, to put it lightly, very annoying. I'm already getting the parts for this build a week later than originally advertised thanks to prime day and crowdstrike, and now I will probably have to wait another week for a new SSD.
I'm still waiting on several other parts and I'm debating whether to wait for them to arrive to test, or to take apart one of my laptops with an m.2 slot tonight just to make sure the darn thing is at least recognized by the bios.
Edit: bit the bullet and tested it in a project laptop, and it was at least recognized by the bios. Will have to wait for the rest of the parts to test for further problems.
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I bought 64 gigs of ram from them and returned ny old 16 gigs in the packaging![:marseydemonicgrin: :marseydemonicgrin:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseydemonicgrin.webp)
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I cancelled my subscription years ago, but they never cancelled it, so I've been charged around $200+ for a service I never used. I'm thinking of doing the same thing but with a $500 GPU.
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I actually do have a 512gb m.2 I could try this with but it's the boot drive of the computer I'm typing this comment on lol
Plus I'd still be SOL for the build I'm trying to finish
And I think it's fairly obviously branded SK Hynix, although I suppose the wagies probably wouldn't notice
Current hyperfixation:![https://i.rdrama.net/images/17146091388618665.webp](https://i.rdrama.net/i/l.webp)
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SK Hynix makes this P41 Platinun NVMe drive which is faster and cheaper than the Samsung 990 Pro. They're a great company and have been advancing steadily in the storage sector.
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Yeah I have zero complaints with the drive; I just know I'm eventually gonna run out of space on it since it's only half a terabyte. Still have a ways to go before that happens though.
Current hyperfixation:![https://i.rdrama.net/images/17146091388618665.webp](https://i.rdrama.net/i/l.webp)
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id atleast keep your ssd around for a week and make sure ur important data is pm a stable external backup (i prefer hdds for data backups)
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I think I'm just gonna RMA it if it's broken without any funny business, but mostly because the build isn't even for me. If it were my own personal use build I'd probably try it.
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