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Yeah how about no.

Here's a link without the aids.

-Edit-

Just checked and this account posts tons of links to sketchy websites.

A quick google search shows that these drives have a high failure rate.

Dogshit it is.

Also 480gig Inland SSDs are like 63$ on Amazon right now and is probably a way better deal.

These have been the same price for weeks on Amazon. They're decent drives though, especially considering the price. Have one as my game drive, and just got one for a friend after the horror of sitting through their spinning drive boot several times while working on their computer. SSD boot times have spoiled me that much.

Same price for the drive on Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/Inland-Professional-480GB-Internal-Solid/dp/B07BD32RLK/ref=aw_od_pd_dx_gc_of_12?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B07BD32RLK&pd_rd_r=8f3470d6-67ee-453f-9658-3798c5f8ab67&pd_rd_w=vBhbp&pd_rd_wg=bJwTi&psc=1&refRID=HPF002C83B5RRVEW2H72

Type|Amazon|3rd Party New
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Lowest|N/A|$64.99 on Aug 27, 2018
Highest|N/A|$125.99 on Mar 14, 2018

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Of course. Glad to do it. If you follow some basic instructions it can be VERY VERY easy. The big stuff you will need:

1. a set of precision tools to unscrew small screws. this one is great--and cheap at $14--and has gently magnetized heads so that when you unscrew a tiny screw, it will stick on and you won't drop it inside your computer.
   
   
2. static bracelet. Get one here for $5. you will connect this to a suitable ground and it will prevent you from accidentally discharging static electricity to the inside of your machine.
   
   
3. YOUR specific components. For a laptop, you will likely need a 2.5" sized SSD (solid state drive). Here's a good sized one (480GB) on amazon for $50.00.
   
   
4. A guide for taking parts out of YOUR specific computer. If you tell me the make and model of your machine, I'd be happy to find a tutorial that shows the correct process.
   
   most of the time HDD replacement is fairly easy. you usually just open a compartment, unplug some wires, unscrew some screws and then do the same steps in reverse order to complete the upgrade.
   
   The parts AND tools listed above come to about $70 plus tax for a brand new SUPERFAST hard drive. If you wanted to do a RAM upgrade at the same time, I would estimate that to be around a $60 cost, putting your TOTAL ALL IN COST at $130, down from $400 lol.
   
   

   You can do it!!
   

   
   and feel free to ask any questions you like.

That's a damn decent deal. If you have a board or something that can take the m.2 standard.

I recently had to emergency rebuild my current machine, and in the process decided to drop in a new SSD. Picked up a couple of 480 Gb drives off amazon for $60.00 each, which I thought was pretty decent:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07BD32RLK/

Read/write speeds are on the money, too, according to Gnome Disks (gnome-disk-utility) benchmarking. I'll be later upgrading my processor slightly (best AMD processor I could get for this mobo), upping my memory from 8 to 16 Gb (DDR3 @ 1600 to same @ 1833), and trading my 750ti out for a 970 gtx.

Not anything super special, certainly not top-of-the-line or even the newest, but way better than what I have now, and honestly, I don't need anything more. Don't get me wrong, if someone offered me something like this:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/dgx-2/

I wouldn't turn it down (and if it were a full rack of those - oh man)...

Inland Professional 480GB SSD 3D NAND SATA III 6Gb/s 2.5" 7mm Internal Solid State Drive (480G) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BD32RLK/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_3sDJBb7FJAK6R

Oh boy do I have good news for you... check out these SSDs. I have three of them and my fellow PC enthusiast buddy has a few as well. They have been holding up well so far.
Inland Professional 480GB SSD 3D NAND SATA III 6Gb/s 2.5" 7mm Internal Solid State Drive (480G) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BD32RLK/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_teePBbENJRH24

OP this is what I use;

Inland Professional 480GB SSD... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BD32RLK?ref=yo_pop_ma_swf

Case;

Inateck 2.5 Inch USB 3.0 Hard... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FCLG65U?ref=yo_pop_ma_swf

Runs like a dream. My games load insanely fast, very easy to set up, and I’ve had no issue with it. Had mine for months.

So, The graphics card should be fine for little while longer. I recently upgraded my old build to a modern Ryzen System and had a couple weeks where my old 7950, a worse GPU the the R9 390, was still Installed. I went for being able to play Prey on low, with sub 30 fps and hitch every few minutes, to high settings simply by upgrading my CPU, MOBO, and Ram.

All of the following builds use time sensitive sales to cheap out on, and have had deals manually edited in that don't show up at pcpartpicker. My math might be off on the prices somewhat.

Here is what 500 will buy you, If you were to max out.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Type|Item|Price
:----|:----|:----
CPU | AMD - Ryzen 5 2600 3.4GHz 6-Core Processor | $165.99 @ Amazon
Motherboard | MSI - B450-A PRO ATX AM4 Motherboard | $79.99 @ B&H
Memory | Team - Dark Pro 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory | $189.99 @ Newegg
Storage | Inland - 480GB 2.5" Solid State Drive | $65.00
| Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts |
| Total (before mail-in rebates) | $510.97
| Mail-in rebates | -$10.00
| Total | $500.97
| Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-09-05 01:32 EDT-0400 |

This build uses a Ryzen 2600. Of the Ryzen chips this is the one best suited for gaming for midrange computers. The Ryzen 2600 is the best price/performance CPU on the market right now. This cpu will power your new pc for years and is currently powering a ton of midrange to high end gaming PCs. Edit: A Few extra Notes on CPUs. The Ryzen 1600 is $15 cheaper, but notably weaker, for 15 more the 2600 is a no brainer. Meanwhile, the 1700 series has 8 cores, but is weaker for games now, because most games focus on single core processing. Some people think games will move to more cores later, but most games now are focused on single core. Furthermore, Games take 3-5 years to develop, and in that time newer multi-core Cpus will be out. Also the 1700 is much more expensive.

Motherboard. We go with a cheap B-450 from MSI. This will hold your computer parts and allow for some minor overclocking. If you spend 3 bucks more you could get this ASRock - B450 Pro4 ATX AM4 Motherboard for $82.99 which will have a more user friendly bios. There are cheaper B-450 mobos, but they are Micro ATX, and want to we stick with standard ATX size since it's easier to work with.

Memory: The Ram is high end samsung B-die ram made by Team Dark. Normally I would give you a cheaper option, but I wasn't prepared for Samsung B-die Ram to be on sale this cheap, and it fit in the budget. Samsung B-die RAM is considered the best for Ryzen. You could easily cheap out here and get something weaker. To reach the max speeds of this Ram you will need to change a setting in your Mobos bios, but it is really easy. The sale on this ram ends in 2 days.

SSD. You can afford an a ssd to put all your Triple AAA games so we do. This will make games like Star Citizen load much faster. This SSD is cheapo and doesn't have a DRAM cache so it's best used as a gaming drive. This is technically optional, but your 80 GB SSD is going to be too small for windows 10 and common programs. Hell, a 120GB SSD now days is considered too small. This SSD isn't great as a boot drive, but will probably be better then your current one.

You also wanted cheaper, so let's give you a cheaper option, note that manually edited in the RAM price from slick deals.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Type|Item|Price
:----|:----|:----
CPU | AMD - Ryzen 5 2600 3.4GHz 6-Core Processor | $165.99 @ Amazon
Motherboard | Gigabyte - GA-AB350-Gaming ATX AM4 Motherboard | $69.99 @ Newegg Business
Memory | ADATA - XPG GAMMIX D10 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory | $135.99 @ Rakuten via Slickdeals
Storage | ADATA - Ultimate SU800 512GB 2.5" Solid State Drive | $89.99 @ Amazon
| Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts |
| Total (before mail-in rebates) | $488.57
| Mail-in rebates | -$15.00
| Total | $462.57
| Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-09-05 01:48 EDT-0400 |

This option uses the same CPU.

Motherboard: We go with a much older motherboard. A b-350 mobo like this may need to have it's Bios Updated to function with Ryzen 2600 series chips, or it may not. It depends on when the board was made.

Memory: Much cheaper Ram. This RAM is still good for a Ryzen Build. Note that slick deals shows an option for ddr4-2400 ram also in that link. You DON'T want the 2400, as Ryzen thrives with DDR4-3000+ speeds. That 3200 ddr-4 is a killed deal. To reach the max speeds of this Ram you will need to change a setting in your Mobos bios, but it is really easy.

SSD. This is a much better SSD then the Inland, and would make a much better boot drive, with enough space for your Triple AAA games. Again, This better SSD is optional.

Finally, let's do the difference splitter:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Type|Item|Price
:----|:----|:----
CPU | AMD - Ryzen 5 2600 3.4GHz 6-Core Processor | $165.99 @ Amazon
Motherboard | MSI - B450-A PRO ATX AM4 Motherboard | $79.99 @ B&H
Memory | ADATA - XPG GAMMIX D10 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory | $135.99 @ Rakuten via Slickdeals
Storage | ADATA - Ultimate SU650 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive | $39.99 @ Newegg
| Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts |
| Total (before mail-in rebates) | $443.96
| Mail-in rebates | -$10.00
| Total | $422
| Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-09-05 02:07 EDT-0400 |

This build combines the two. By going B-450 you don't have to worry about Bios Updates for the CPU. The Ram is good and cheap, and the SSD is good enough to be a boot drive, and have some space left over for games like star citizen. Since this becomes your boot drive, you can wipe your old SSD and have 320GB of SSD space for games. Finally, again, the SSD is optional.

Cheap microcenter drives I got from amazon. They work in RAID and if there is only one drive to passthrough. All identical.

Inland Professional 480GB SSD 3D NAND SATA III 6Gb/s 2.5" 7mm Internal Solid State Drive (480G)

I wouldn't trust only depending on the Adobe cloud option at all. Besides depending on having internet regularly plus needing the upload speed to keep up with what you're shooting, you're also limited to the 1TB plan unless you want to pay for extra. Even if you only average shooting about 8GB a day, you're looking at about 1.5TB of files created.

If it were me I would consider everything shot on this trip as irreplaceable and spend a little more on ensuring I don't lose anything. SD cards and SSDs currently are stupid cheap. On a big trip I would be buying enough SD cards to not have to delete at all until I get home plus enough SSD space to copy onto without deleting anything and not depending on one point of failure.

1. Get enough SD cards to not have to reuse for 2 weeks of shooting.
   
2. External drives enough to cover the entire trip, preferably SSD (Not all one big drive)
   
3. Cloud service independent of Adobe. I use Backblaze for $5/month, but you need to have the external drives plugged in every 30 days or they may not be kept.
   
4. Copy files from cards to external drive daily (and internal to laptop if you have space).
   
5. Upload files to cloud daily/overnight if possible
   
6. Only delete from SD card when you are SURE that there is a copy on the external AND cloud.
   
7. When an external drive is close to full, ship it back home or to a trusted person. If you trust them, they could copy to another drive and ship back to a location you know you'll be.
   
   Using a system like this you're not depending on the internet keeping up, can borrow a laptop to copy files to the external in case your laptop or a drive fails or gets lost/stolen, and limits your exposure to lost photos if something goes wrong.

Save yourself some money and get this

https://www.amazon.com/Inland-Professional-480GB-Internal-Solid/dp/B07BD32RLK/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1536801724&sr=8-3&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=480gb+ssd&dpPl=1&dpID=51T2252TqML&ref=plSrch

And spend another $15 on a USB 3.0 external 2.5" hard drive enclosure.

Not really a deal they're in amazon at the same price since august 27 https://www.amazon.com/Inland-Professional-480GB-Internal-Solid/dp/B07BD32RLK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1537152195&sr=8-1&keywords=Inland

Do you really need 1TB? From what I'm seeing, both of drives you mentioned cost about $66 USD. If you're willing to cut your storage size down to 480GB instead, you could get an Inland Professional 480GB SSD instead. Huge performance gain over both the HDD and Hybrid drives.

is there a reason why i shouldn't buy this 480 gb ssd over its competitors? the price is much cheaper than other 480-512 ggb ssd.

It's on Amazon prime for $62.99

Inland Professional 480GB SSD 3D NAND SATA III 6Gb/s 2.5" 7mm Internal Solid State Drive (480G) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BD32RLK/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_1-gUBbCMWK3P0

Hey man, no judgement. I'm 21 and play minecraft. If I were in your shoes, I'd save my money up for these parts.

A10 would get you quad core - $35 https://www.ebay.com/itm/AMD-A10-5800-Quad-Core-3-8GHz-Trinity-APU-FM2-AD580BWOA44HJ/143079950668?epid=1922787447&hash=item21503ac94c%3Ag%3ABC8AAOSw259cL9jj%3Asc%3AUSPSFirstClass%2110709%21US%21-1&LH_BIN=1

a low-midrange graphics card will allow you to play the games you want -(this is a 950 for $70, beware fakes)
https://www.ebay.com/itm/EVGA-GTX-950-2GB-SC-ITX-Model-Graphics-Card-2-3-Day-Shipping/123702414041?hash=item1ccd3d0ad9%3Ag%3AYZMAAOSwCUlclHJB%3Asc%3AUSPSPriority%2110709%21US%21-1&LH_BIN=1

if your power supply has a GPU connector a rx470 would give you a lot more power for around the same money https://www.ebay.com/itm/SAPPHIRE-NITRO-RX470-4GB-VIDEO-GRAPHIC-CARD-W-BOX-GOOD/183819518035?hash=item2acc7f4053%3Ag%3AJekAAOSwmS5c49A6&LH_BIN=1

and an SSD to boot off of ($50 for 500gb)https://www.amazon.com/Inland-Professional-480GB-Internal-Solid/dp/B07BD32RLK/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=480gb+ssd&qid=1558939564&s=gateway&sr=8-4

All in ~150-160 to upgrade your machine to something usable.

A good new low-midrange machine will cost something around this. If $800 is totally unfeasible, upgrading your current computer may allow you to get more useful life out of what you already have. At the very least the SSD will work in a new machine and the GPU can be resold easily.

PCPartPicker Part List

Type|Item|Price
:----|:----|:----
CPU | AMD - Ryzen 5 2600X 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor | $179.99 @ Amazon
Motherboard | Gigabyte - B450 AORUS ELITE ATX AM4 Motherboard | $109.91 @ Amazon
Memory | GeIL - EVO SPEAR 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory | $70.98 @ Newegg
Storage | Intel - 660p Series 1 TB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive | $109.00 @ B&H
Video Card | MSI - Radeon RX 580 8 GB ARMOR OC Video Card | $184.99 @ Newegg
Case | NZXT - H500 ATX Mid Tower Case | $69.99 @ Amazon
Power Supply | Corsair - CXM 550 W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply | $59.99 @ Amazon
| Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts |
| Total | $784.85
| Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-05-27 02:47 EDT-0400 |

Hey Rustplayer, is this a good one?
https://www.amazon.com/Inland-Professional-480GB-Internal-Solid/dp/B07BD32RLK/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1541201465&sr=1-2-spons&keywords=ssd&psc=1

Both of those TEAM drives are pretty good, but it's an asian company without many U.S. resources and as such might not be the smoothest sailing for warranty.

https://www.amazon.com/Silicon-Power-Performance-Internal-SP512GBSS3A55S25/dp/B07997QV4Z/ref=sr_1_7

https://www.amazon.com/Inland-Professional-480GB-Internal-Solid/dp/B07BD32RLK/ref=sr_1_3

I saw this one is very cheap, does it look ok or might it be poor quality/not compatible?

Inland Professional 480GB SSD 3D NAND SATA III 6Gb/s 2.5" 7mm Internal Solid State Drive (480G) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BD32RLK/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_BBHVBbRQEFXJ5

switch to 1x8 for upgradability, cheaper ssd, and better case