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Crucial SSD 960GB $333.49 US Delivered 480GB $184, 240GB $93, 120GB $58 @ Other World Computing

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Crucial SSD 960GB $333.49 US Delivered 480GB $184, 240GB $93, 120GB $58 @ Other World Computing
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idontalwaysnotlie on 18/12/2014 - 14:32 eshop.macsales.com (2136 clicks)
Last edited 18/12/2014 - 15:01 by 1 other user

Cheaper than on amazon by $80 so I thought it was a good deal.
Not to sure about the company but has been around since 1988
$2.99 international shipping really makes the deal.
I have used Crucial drives for years now and have found them most reliable.
Not the fastest around but for this price not too bad.
120GB here
240GB here
480GB here
960GB Crucial M500 Specifications:

Specifications
Form Factor2.5″
SSDInterfaceSATA 6Gb/s (SATA 3GB/s compatible)
Capacity1 960GBFormatted
NAND20nm Micron MLC
NNDSMART AttributesSelf-monitoring, analysis, and reporting technology (SMART) command set
Manufacturer Model NumberCT960M500SSD1RoHS
CompliantYes
FormatUnformatted
Physical
Height (max)7.0mm (0.275″)
Width (max)69.85mm (2.750″)
Length (max)100.50mm (3.957″)
Weight (typical)75g (0.165 lbs.)
Reliability
MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures)1,200,000 hours
Endurance 72TB total bytes written (TBW), equal to 40GB per day for 5 years
Warranty2 Year OWC Fulfilled Limited Warranty
Performance
Sequential Read (up to)500 MB/sec (SATA 6Gb/s)
Sequential Write (up to)400 MB/sec (SATA 6Gb/s)
Random 4K Read80,000 IOPS
Random 4K Write80,000 IOPS
Environmental (Operating)
Shock1500G / 1.0msTemperature (°F)32°F to 158°FTemperature (°C)0°C to 70°CVibration2-500Hz at 3.1G
Environmental (Non-Operating)
Shock1500G / 1.0msTemperature (°F)-40°F to 185°FTemperature (°C)-40°C to 85°CVibration2-500Hz at 3.1G
Acoustics
Idle (Typical)0.0 belsSeek (Typical)0.0 bels

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  • buzzlight9 on 18/12/2014 - 14:36
    +1

    Note the warranty is "2 Year OWC Fulfilled Limited Warranty". Price is good ! AUD $408~

  • moksha on 18/12/2014 - 14:41
    +1

    480GB for $184.49 USD delivered

    http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Crucial/CT480M500S7M/

    • idontalwaysnotlie on 18/12/2014 - 14:59
      +1

      Yeah I guess that ones also good. I needed bigger ones so didn't look at the little ones. Will updated that to include.

    • marblegravy on 16/01/2015 - 09:36

      How do you get that price? I'm following your link and it's USD $199 + delivery. Maybe they upped the price?

      • moksha on 16/01/2015 - 10:57

        Yeah, prices have gone up. The deal is a month old though.

  • davidr on 18/12/2014 - 15:01
    +2

    OWC are a very reputable company. I have used them many times.

    • happychappy1 on 18/12/2014 - 15:14
      +1

      Only problem is that they want you to foot the bill for the shipping back to them if something goes wrong. With Amazon, you can get them to recredit you.

      • Eeples on 19/12/2014 - 09:58

        amazon do not recredit anywhere near the amount of postage required to send moderate-heavy stuff back to the usa.

        • happychappy1 on 19/12/2014 - 10:37

          In my experience, they do. What they've done is refund part of an order - happened more than once. Just make sure to work out the amount of postage (using Aus Post website) before letting them know.

      • Diji1 on 04/01/2015 - 10:09

        This isn't unusual though right? I think a lot of retailers have a policy like this although I agree they should foot the bill for that.

        • happychappy1 on 04/01/2015 - 15:27

          Yes, but a good retailer would look after their customers. Only providing service if customers pay to ship something back isn't looking after their customers - especially if the fault is in no way the customer's fault.

          Amazon have been pretty good in this respect, while OWC is not.

  • jackwoz on 18/12/2014 - 15:16
    +16

    Shame about the exchange rate at the moment

    • cpho on 18/12/2014 - 20:15
      +12

      Still better than Russia

  • Gnostikos on 18/12/2014 - 15:19
    +7

    The M500 series is still a fantastic buy, despite being about 2 generations behind current SSD lithography.

    Do note though, there is a significant performance difference in write speeds between the 120/240GB models and the 480/960GB models, with the smaller versions being half as fast in sequential writes.

    I've had a M500 480GB for more than a year (posted some benchmarks here) and it's been flawless; performance consistency has been very impressive even at 60% or 70% used capacity and there haven't been any known firmware issues.

    Enterprise-level characteristics set the M500s apart from their contemporary rivals like the Samsung Evo 840 or the SanDisk Ultra IIs, as they have supercapicators and more reserve NAND (quite possibly the most reserve NAND I have ever seen in an SSD, something like ~8,000 reserve blocks; even the successor M550s have less).

    • happychappy1 on 18/12/2014 - 16:17
      +3

      The Intel 730 series SSDs have more reserve NAND.

      The M500 had more reserve NAND due to the new smaller 20nm process used to manufacture the MLC, which meant there was a higher chance of failure - to offset this, they increased the reserve NAND ("RAIN" - redundant array of inexpensive NAND).

      Since the process has become more mature, they've made the user-accessible space bigger in the newer models (M550, MX100).

      Note that the M500 is basically a discontinued model.

    • furythree on 18/12/2014 - 17:06

      how does it compare to a crucial m4 and mx100?

      i just bought 2x240gb models of the m500 to raid 0

      if its better or comparible to those other two then i wont lose sleep over not getting the 480gb

      • happychappy1 on 18/12/2014 - 18:05

        They are pretty much very similar in day to day use, much better than a HDD, although there may be differences if you benchmark them.

      • Gnostikos on 18/12/2014 - 19:55
        +3

        The M4 series (or the Micron C400) released in 2011 and employs older/slower 25nm NAND.
        The M500 series released in 2013 and uses 20nm NAND.
        The M550 series released in 2014 and also uses 20nm NAND.
        The MX100 series released in 2014 uses the newer 16nm MLC NAND.

        The M500 is now Crucial's budget range of SSDs, the M550 is the premium performance range, and the MX100 is the destined replacement for the M500 (though a lot of M500 stock is still floating around so I'd hardly call it discontinued).

        The reason for the price discrepancy between the more expensive M550 and the cheaper MX100, despite the fact they perform nearly identical, is because the MX100 is a brand new drive and is built with newer, cheaper to manufacture NAND than the M5xx series.

        The performance difference between the M500, MX100 and M550 is negligible; I have used dozens of M550s at work now and I can report benchmarks-wise and in real-world usage, there is no massive difference.

        The price difference between the M550 and the MX100 is going to see the MX100 series be the drive of choice for the vast majority of buyers; with the M550 reserved for those looking for those enterprise-level bells & whistles like encryption, better wear-leveling and better performance with all file types.

        • Willy Bargin on 19/12/2014 - 01:58

          Thanks - that was a very good write up

        • Jabba the Hutt on 19/12/2014 - 04:33

          There is in fact one significant difference benchmark-wise - the MX550 and MX100 have much improved service times over the M500, as shown in TR's reviews. AnandTech's Storage Bench has teased out the same weakness in the M500.

          I've nevertheless bought three M500s over time including one just a few weeks ago because they've been significantly cheaper, and the difference will hardly stick out like a sore thumb in day to day usage (to the extent it could be noticed, it'd probably be subtle and tough to pin down). But if I had the choice of an MX550/MX100 for the same price as an M500 or maybe a few bucks more, I'd take the former.

  • seb on 18/12/2014 - 15:35

    This is a good deal for a good product, though I'm still wondering when the M550 1TB will go back down to $us389 at Amazon.

  • marquise on 18/12/2014 - 16:16

    Ask Amazon for price match?

    • happychappy1 on 18/12/2014 - 16:57

      They don't price match.

      • marquise on 18/12/2014 - 17:45

        That's a shame, they seem to do everything else like refunding price differences, crediting for return shipping etc.

        • ohdear on 19/12/2014 - 09:41
          +1

          They won't always price match but scroll down to Product Details on Amazon and click "tell us about a lower price"

  • uradox on 18/12/2014 - 16:21
    +3

    Now all I need is a bargain thunderbolt enclosure that doesn't have the thunderbolt premium tax!

  • superm86 on 18/12/2014 - 16:55

    Is 128GB enough for just OS and few games. Rest would reside on other usual drive.

    • Jettblack on 18/12/2014 - 17:20
      -1

      Yes

    • Logical on 18/12/2014 - 19:43
      +6

      no. highly recommend around 240-250GB. SSD requires around 30% free disk space otherwise loose performance. so OS and a few 10GB games and a 120GB would fill up. Also, and more importantly, the 250GB SSD's are faster than the 120's

      • superm86 on 18/12/2014 - 20:13

        Thanks!
        Most prob would be building my rig soon.. planning on configuration and budget :)

      • robertm on 19/12/2014 - 11:17

        Thanks I never knew that SSDs require more free space in comparison to hard disks to perform well. Will have to do some googling to find out more. Thanks for the info :-)

  • rlkk on 18/12/2014 - 17:18
    +1

    Awesome!!
    Finally going to put an SSD in my early 2011 mbp. Thanks for posting.

  • jackau on 18/12/2014 - 19:20
    +1

    sadly, the current Xchange rate isnt going to make this deal for 4XX-500 under size attractive enough against those specials run by MSY and shoppingexpress alike

  • dsl1108 on 18/12/2014 - 19:26

    still little bit higher than Amazon's deal, i got my one for 72 usd with free shipping

    • Vic009 on 18/12/2014 - 19:47

      Probably that deal is expired now !

  • Hornpub on 18/12/2014 - 23:38
    +1

    here is the test result on my M500 i got it from the amazon bargain

    M500 http://i.imgur.com/VLieHHH.jpg (purchase recepit http://i.imgur.com/TzKUpFV.jpg)

    intel 520: http://i.imgur.com/udo59Hw.jpg

    WD red(HHD): http://i.imgur.com/sNp7OCJ.jpg (raped)

    M500 and intel 520 are pretty much came out at same time, you get idea of how much value you got from this deal if you happen to own a 520. (my 520 is 120GB and cost over 140$ at the time it came out, no i almost get a doubled size ssd with half price and even better performance, lol )

  • speedyjonzalas on 19/12/2014 - 14:51

    Anyone know if I can throw this in my gigabyte q2556n laptop?

    The laptop has space for an msata drive, a normal hdd and the ability to replace the dvd drive with an hdd as well.

    I'm thinking replacing the normal hdd may be the easiest/cheapest per gb option providing this fits?

    • hugs on 19/12/2014 - 15:14
      +1

      Yes, it will fit in a regular 2.5" HDD bay. It's about the easiest and cheapest per-GB-of-SSD.

      Keep in mind, though, that you lose the ability to have a much higher capacity spinning drive in that slot.

  • stemcell on 02/01/2015 - 11:43

    Anyone received their SSD's yet?

  • Glyde62 on 03/01/2015 - 20:01

    Just put one of these in checkout to check price
    240GB Crucial / Micron M500 2.5-inch SATA 6Gb/s 7mm SSD (MLC)

    Even cheaper now US$91.99 Posted

    But the 480Gb is dearer

    • stemcell on 04/01/2015 - 10:15

      As soon as deliveries start rolling in I'll place my order :)

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