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Crucial MX500 1TB SSD $269.10 Delivered @ PC Byte eBay / $256.50 Delivered (eBay Plus Required) @ Flashpro eBay
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anything above 248 is not as good anymore.
and we know they could go lower
with an ebay subsidy they can go lower, on their own it's different.
Storage is a bit like needing to go to the toilet , if you can't wait, you need to use what is available at the time.
Of more interest is if we will see M.2 NVme for the same prices and as often ….same NAND,
These prices are going down so quick! Can't wait until we start seeing large 5tb+ drives at decent prices. Hopefully in a few years!
Same here, can't wait to replace my 6TB HDD's with 6TB SSD's.
Get me a 1TB in M2 format that isn't slow (but doesn't have to be 960 EVO fast either) for less than $150 and I'm golden.
Yeah, I paid too much for my 2 nvme drives :(
They're not slow at all, and are great for transferring < 20gb files between each other.
If you transfer a large file (eg. 60gb+) they tend to slow down part-way through the transfer due to thermal throttling :(I don't much care for those extremely fast sequential read/writes. I have one myself (came in a laptop), but I would gladly trade it for a much larger and slower (but still good sata3 SSD fast) drive to fit in that M2 slot.
Yeah, I paid too much for my 2 nvme drives :(
Me too. I paid over triple this price to get 1TB of m.2 SSD storage 4 years ago. To make things worse, mine are SATA SSDs. 500MB/400MB read/write speeds. :'(
Wow. Thermal throttling! On storage?! I didn't know. That's so lame. That defeats the purpose.. what a crap design.
but isn't the high transfer speed only useful for benchmark and transferring large data between two nvme ssd?
And how often are you going to be doing that regularly?If you transfer data from nvme to a sata3 ssd/sata3 hdd/usb 3, then it will be bottleneck by that device max speed.
In real world performance ie game loading, OS booting, there is hardly any noticeable difference in speed.
@pinkybrain: yeah, I copy between nvme drives pretty often. Even copying files from one nvme drive to it's self is faster than copying files from one sata drive to it's self.
So it can be beneficial for some programming use cases, working with media files, etc.
Loading games, I've tested, and found absolutely no difference at all between nvme and sata. Same with booting the OS.
For most people, there's no reason to pay more for nvme. There's also the fact nvme drives consume pci-e lanes.
@idonotknowwhy:
What are you copying between two nvme drives so regularly?Well of course the nvme will be fastest to copy to itself,
How fast are the real word speeds ie nvme to itself and nvme to nvme (with thermal throttling)?
In the benchmark software I see online, the software bench at 2000mb+ etc..for a 970..
So for many ppl, getting a regularly sata 3 ssd, is better value
for money and you get a bigger size hdd.
Correct?e.g. 1TB evo 860 was selling for $248.
How much ssd size would $250 get you in a nvme ssd?
Also a replaced sata 3 ssd can be repurpose in a older pc or used as a portable ssd.
An nvme ssd has less repurpose uses, since old pc motherboards would not have an nvme m2 slot
and also it is harder to convert it to a portable ssd.In loading games and booting OS..
did you time the seconds difference between nvme and sata3 ssd?
And how much difference in timeI saw some youtube clips and the difference was like a second or even less than a second difference in loading games.
I'd take 1TB M.2 NVme for $250 and be happy at the moment.
@So lo:
most machines now have M.2 NVme slots , so next drives I buy will be M.2 NVme and I will use adapter, have enough SATA interface SSD drives, and next mother board would make best use of the NVme.How much ssd size would $250 get you in a nvme ssd right now?
I am talking about repurposing the ssd into an older pc
In the case most of those motherboards would not have a m2 nvme slot.Going forward, then yes newer boards would have it..
But going backwards, ie re purposing into an older pc, then no slot.
For a noob who wants to upgrade my crappy HDD to an SSD (like this one, I probably only need 500gb though), how do I find out whether it will suit my laptop (or even if I can upgrade my laptop's hard drive)?
If you know your systems specs theres a tool on the crucial website that can give an idea on what will fit http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/upgrades
open your laptop and measure the old hdd
There's two different thickness
7 mm or 9.5 mm
Actually I think the mX500 will fit
cos it is 7mm.So if your old hdd is 7mm, then you need a spacer/adapter
to prevent this ssd to from moving around.they provide the plastic spacer.
good to know
I guess if your laptop is 7mm then it should just be easy to replace since this drive is 7mm..
It is only if your laptop hdd is 9.5mm that you would need the spacer.
if it has a SATA interface, that is all that matters.
We've upgraded all our laptops at home to SSD, gave them a second lease of life so now we can get at least another 3 years out of them.
can anyone comment on the reliability of this brand?
Good.
Crucial is killing it with the MX500 line too. Essentially the same performance as Samsung's 860 evo products at a cheaper price.
It's manufactured by Micron (Crucial is just their brand name for consumer-level storage).
Intel, Micron and Samsung are the only three SSD manufacturers who own their own fabrication plants and produce their own NAND chips. Most other brands buy NAND from these manufacturers (or others like SK Hynix) and pair those chips with 3rd-party storage controllers from Phison, Silicon Motion, SandForce or Marvell. Essentially, just re-badging.I've personally used three generations of Micron SSDs from the M500, MX300 and now the MX500. All are still working fine and haven't had any issues.
In my line of work (IT MSP), I've installed and come across probably hundreds of various generations of Micron SSDs dating all the way back to the RealSSD C400 from 2011. I have yet to see one fail or cause OS/data corruption or anything like that. The M550 series had some firmware issues with their earliest firmware revision that caused random BSODs as if the storage volume was disconnected while the OS was running, but the firmware update to resolve that issue conclusively solved it (and this was something I saw on maybe two M550-based PCs out of hundreds).As yanni1 pointed out, Crucial is the first competing SSD brand to break the SATA SSD performance monopoly held by Samsung for probably 3 or 4 years now. The MX500 series are basically as good as Samsung's counterpart (the 860 Evo) for less money.
The 860's are getting faster. A month ago they were ~6% slower than an 850, now they're ~7% faster. Must be some solid driver improvements. MX500 is still very close to the 860, but the gap is increasing (currently ~10%), with the 500 having superior sequential performance whilst the 860 has superior random (providing faster real-world speeds unless used as secondary storage drive).
Still not worth paying a premium for a 860. Both are indistinguishable for average day to day usage.
I'm sure if I put them side by side and timed them for different things there would be a slight difference, but it's pretty much irrelevant.
A mx500 at these prices is a far better value than a 860. If they were the same price, then yeah you'd probably go with the 860.
You're stating the obvious. However there's been recent deals where the 860 is only 10% dearer (just no where near as often). In those cases its not as clear cut as all the above posters are making out. Same story with both the RRP's.
Good deal at time of posting, but a note for anyone looking at buying now that PC Byte are in tomorrows 20% off sale.
Their store is called "tech mall" price is now $375
Not following, PC Byte have it at $299 right now, there is a 20% off on PC Byte in tomorrow's sale?
PC byte are using their sister store called techmall, the 20% will only be off products in that store.
Isn't PC Byte $239.20 with PICKITUP?They've done the classical in terms and conditions but pull out last second.
Was $248 a while back