Cheapest 1TB drive with a 5-year warranty, details from past deal.
Note: MX500 is the new model of Crucial SSD offering, not to be confused with MX300.
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Yes, you have to send it to USA tho.
Personally would go with a https://www.ozbargain.com.au/product/samsung-850-evo
It's about the same price for better performance and everything.
There's no competition at this price bracket it's Samsung or nothing really.
at the nvme bracket it is Intel.
Read reviews, the MX500, WD Blue 3D and 850 Evo are all roughly the same performance. Also, Intel's 'mainstream' NVME offerings are all garbage, Samsung is easily the leader in that category.
Realistically, people should buy whatever is cheapest from a 'name' brand, it will be 100x faster than any hard drive and there will be no perceivable difference in performance to any other drive.
Intel's 'mainstream' NVME offerings are all garbage
Rubbish, the Intel 760P 512GB is easily the best value NVMe atm.
Are you sure about this.
The 960 evo has the same performance as this ( on paper slightly faster and real world tests show that the paper results are obtainable) yet at the time of writing this the 760p is about $73 usd more than the 960evo which comes in at slightly under $200usd at the moment. So large price difference for next to no performance difference. With that said the Samsung 960pro is $25 more than the 760p and it’s perfomance exceeds that of the intel by a reasonably large margin. So the intel really is badly placed in the market at the moment either needs to drop its price by 20-25% to be “value” or increase its performance to be “enthusiast”. With the new Samsung m.2 range 970 and 980 coming out the performance gap is going to get greater while they sit at the same prices as the old range.
@Capone: some devices have the new drives in them already under their oem parts range but as for the consumer over the counter variant I do not believe they have given a eta. Though I know that they have ramped up production on the memory modules and controllers so one would assume it would be coming in very soon.
My bad I must have been thinking about the mx300.. honest mistake.. but yeah for ultra budget crucial is great.
Samsung gave me a 850 EVO to replace my faulty Samsung 840 (which didn't even last one year). I still have an old 840 EVO which needs the infamous workaround to avoid slow down when reading older data. I still don't trust TLC SSD drives (and a lot of the benchmark measures more on the SLC cache, once exhausted, the true TLC speed shows, and even Samsung 850 EVO TLC's true speed is no match of average MLC).
I do try to support all SSD makers if possible (Sandisk, Crucial, Intel, Samsung). We need competition.
I sent back a faulty 1TB msata 840evo to Samsung and they replaced it with a 1TB 960 evo :)
It was well worth the 3 weeks wait.
They replaced it with 960 Evo m.2 SSD? That's great. Thought they would replace it with a mSATA SSD (860 EVO).
Yeah, they replaced it with NVME 960 Evo.
It was just before Christmas and prior to the release of the 860 Evo.
@xuqi: That's great. I reckon that's fair. To date, I am still quite upset with the 840/840 Evo mess Samsung caused. They should have replaced them all. I still have a 840 Evo msata. I know it is a time bomb waiting to explode.
Here's the photo of the box :)
Ended up selling it on GT a couple of weeks later as I have better drives to use.
Reviews suggest the MX500 is fairly on par with the Samsung 850. I wouldn't pay more for either one as the performance is so similar. Maybe you're thinking of the MX300?
i think so
Why Crucial MX 500 don't have M.2 Model SSD…
Why I can't find it on amazon?
Emm, I don't know? It was released just over a month ago, maybe they will have stock soon.
Personally for a bit more I'd get the Micron 2Tb 3d nand, better price per gb
Crucial is a Micron Brand, and MX500 has 3D NAND.
crucial is for retail and micron is sold to server and pc manufactuers …. slightly different firmware but same nand chips.
how much is a bit more for 2TB .$400,$450,$500,… i’d love to replace my 1TB ssd with a 2TB ssd …..
expired deals don’t count ….. i got the 750gb crucial for $135 ….. never to be repeated so it doesn’t count to what people,can buy ….
"never" to be repeated? You sure it will never happen again? Even in 10 years' time, where everyone will be probably after 10TB SSDs?
Jokes aside, probably not many good deals for 2TB SSD now (coz. a lot of people want 2TB SSDs now). QLC is coming and that could change things and make 2TB SSDs more affordable. Currently, 2TB is 2X the price of 1TB so no discount.
In 10 years, we'll be on 6G mobile network less need for local storage, I heard it from Malcolm Turnbull hardy har har
@malouphix: Politicians…. They take money from us to fatten their pockets. They are the root cause of why everything is so expensive. SSDs would be a lot cheaper if we don't need to pay them to flush our money down the toilet.
never to be repeated was tongue in cheek ….. as no deal since has come close per gb in ssd.
. i recall people hesitating to buy as they compared to evo 850 and by the time decided to bite the bullet all were gone …. i bought 3 under different accounts ……….. yep in 5 years it will be cheaper but also the interfaces will be different as will the nand technology ….
then you will need the phone plan and data allowance to go with it ….. wonder if they will still charge $10 per gb when you exceed your cap ?
@garage sale: MX300 from Amazon right? Amazon did drop the price to between $88 to $95 USD back in 2016 a few times. Thought a lot of people bought one (I did) when it was posted on OZB. There were some unreal Crucial/Micron SSD deals back in 2016.
Sounds like the legendary QC35 for $249 deal :)
The SanDisk 3d is even cheaper again…
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B071KGRXRG/ref=psdcmw_1292116…
Any good?
Sandisk is reliable. This one is also a good option.
we use the sandisk (mlc) ssd for the gaming pc and storing steam games ….. hasn’t missed a beat and has been in over 2 years and lots of life left in the nands ….. there are only a few memory and controller manufactuers ….. most brands just tweak it with their own firmware.
Data Transfer Rate:
SanDisk: 750 MB per second
Crucial: 6 Gb per second
Not sure why they use same technology but they have huge speed gap.
Sata 3…previously known as Sata6 Gb/s can reach bus interface speeds of typically 500-600 MB/s. There is no huge discrepancy.
750 MB is equivalent to 6 Gbps.
It's the same theoretical speed, 6 Gb/s = 768 MB/s (or, 750 MB/s if you take 1 Gb = 1000 Mb). Notice, 1 Byte (B) = 8* bit (b).
Having said that, I would choose between Samsung and Crucial when it comes to SSD. Same goes for RAM, but will go to Samsung or SanDisk for memory cards (microSD etc.). You can trust Samsung for anything related to Solid State Electronics, they were the pioneer and sold off their mechanical HDD business to Seagate even before SSD was popular.
Trust Samsung on SSD? Well, not impressed at all on how Samsung handled the 840 and 840 Evo read mess. Samsung came out with TLC SSD first, had the infamous read slow down issue. 840 Evo's first firmware "fix" didn't fix it. The second fix was more of a workaround (it is a hardware fault which Samsung can only workaround it - Samsung won't recall them all and replace them with ones without the defect). 840 owners - well, no firmware fix for you whatsoever. Reliability of 840 and 840 EVO are not great. So that's how Samsung reward their customers for believing in their first gen TLC technology. While Samsung AUS did replace my faulty 840 and someone else's faulty 840 EVO with current gen SSDs, I still lost some data and was without an SSD for a laptop for 3 weeks. Why do you think Samsung moved away from planar TLC for a while after 840/840 Evo?
Don't buy SSD or hard drive simply based on the brand. The actual model matters more than the brand. Samsung can and did make lousy SSD drives and got away with them. Less than 1 year on a Samsung SSD before it died completely wasn't a good experience (not to mention very light usage - less than 3TB total writes). I much prefer more choices, rather than 1 manufacturer dominating the market.
yep,it’s all model specific not brands ….. even differences in a product line as they use different controllers in 256gb drives vs 1 tb drives and even different size nand chips ……
@netsurfer:
That sounds just how Samsung handle anything where they stuffed up! I don't know why people think their stuff is amazing. I had 4 note 3's, 3 S7's with major defects till I got ones that worked. Samsung TV I have had horrible bitstream decoding, bad picture and "global dimming" can't be turned off which is extremely frustrating.
Actually by you saying this is proof that marketing works and consumers have no clue on tech specs. Both numbers are actually pointing to the same thing.
The RRP is US $ 259.99 according to Anantech. It's a good price for a 1 tb ssd, but I will wait unless you really need it now.
Now if we could only get the Samsung 960 nvme for the same price ;)
Not a deal, regular price only 259 US.
Not negging it but not something I would consider a bargain. If it were MLC on the other hand….
So in this price bracket is the Crucial MX500 the one now to go for and not the Samsung 850 EVO?
I am thinking of buying the Samsung 850 EVO over this for $350.55 with PICK5 code. I know it's $20 more but not a bad price for local stock.
The Samsung is a better drive, and comes with a 5 year warranty.
The Samsungs usually have the edge in performance, but Crucials have the often-overlooked advantage of partial power loss protection, which is a 'nice to have' to for desktop systems that aren't hooked up to a UPS. In practice, the differences are much of a muchness as neither is likely to come into play.
Interesting thanks Jabba the Hutt I did not know about that extra special feature for crucial.. loose power plugs and clumsy tripping is always a factor in these purchases especially if it is something maybe like a laptop with low battery or something like that.
Any recommendations for someone looking for a 250/500GB SSD?
If you must get one now, MX500 from Amazon 250/500 SSDs are at their lowest so far. But, the price has been trending downward.
https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-MX500-250GB-NAND-Internal/dp/…
https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-MX500-500GB-NAND-Internal/dp/…
You only save a few $$$ compared to local ones (i.e. based on MSY price list). There might be some good feeBay deals with voucher codes.
TLC SSDs, avoid the dirt cheap/super slow ones (which just use SLC cache hack to bump up the sequential read/write to trick customers) - e.g. BX200 - but BX200 was dirt cheap at one stage. I have a 850 EVO, it isn't amazing. Like all TLC drives, once you have a usage pattern which fills the SLC cache, you will realise the TLC part isn't amazing at all. Don't just look at the bling bling review benchmark charts.
If pure speed / performance is what you are after (and $$$ is less of an issue), go for quality MLC drives. Basically, if you are after a top notch SSD, might as well go for the best - 960 Pro m.2 (NVMe). For more important devices, I still prefer MLC SSDs.
Crucial SSDs were worth getting back in 2016 because Crucial had little to no TLC offering back then and had to sell MLC SSDs at the TLC SSD level price point to compete and they tried to start a price war to crush the lesser known brands. The price you are paying now for a TLC SSD, you could get a MLC SSD back in 2016. Crucial's MX300 750GB was ~$130AUD inc postage (TLC SSD though).
It is worthwhile to get the local ones because the warranty for SSDs here is generally quite good. You generally get brand new replacement for SSDs (unlike hard disks, where you often get refurbished - and those are often junk that will only last till a few days after the remaining warranty expires). For my really old OCZ SSD which died, the reseller knew the model had a high return rate and arranged a full refund for me. Dunno how to do the warranty claim for Crucial from here - I seem to recall some retailers sell Crucial SSDs here.
Does Crucial do a global warranty?