Similar to the MX500 although it lacks DRAM. However, this capacity model of the BX500 has migrated to newer, 96-layer NAND, so it's pretty solid for a DRAM-less drive. Probably one of the best $/GB for a storage and games SSD. In some benchmarks it actually beats the Samsung 860 EVO because the 96-layer NAND. Tweaktown has a good review and there are YouTube comparisons of the two drives.
good deal for a basic SATA SSD! I'm still holding out for pricing to improve on larger 2TB/4TB SSDs to make it a useful Steam library drive!
I use this model in my PS4 Pro.
How long does it take to boot?
According digital foundry, boot times go from 12.7 seconds to 8.3 seconds.
They also note faster game loading times, but depending on the title it is barely noticeable to a significant time saving.
PS4 Pro's benefit more from SSDs than base PS4, but not by much.
@FabMan: other nice thing though is lower power consumption, less heat and the reliability of no moving parts.
@garage sale: reliability of no moving parts?
as a part time IT tech, I see just as many SSD drives die as HDD, the biggest difference is that a spinning disk will make a clicking or clunking sound well before it finally dies, so you can recover your data … if you want to recover data from an SSD you're looking at the thousands upon thousands to get the data off
@FabMan: I use one on my Xbox one X as an external, and have significantly faster load times. I play with friends that have NBN100 and I'm still on ADSL2+, and I load sometimes up to 25 seconds before they do.
@Sarge2401: You know what is strange, people recording that an External SSD runs faster on the XBox One X, than if they replaced the internal drive. I'm not sure why, but the external option is the easiest and better performance choice. You'd think USB3 would hamper performance compared to internals.
@FabMan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shh255VnpVk
i did some tests Comparing a PS4 Pro with 1TB 860 Evo
vs launch PS4 with 500GB SSHD
menu to ingame save load
Farcry 5
PS4 PRO+SSD = 27sec
PS4 + SSHD = 57sec
Assassin's creed odyssey
PS4 PRO+SSD = 38sec
PS4 + SSHD = 1.13min
So worth it if you constantly want to chip away at loading things. i find it very worth the time saving
@vanyellow: Yeah, I upgraded to an SSD on my PS4 Pro and it really takes the edge off of some of the loading times. Not in all, but I find the longer the loading times, and therefore more painful, the better the SSD is.
About half the time for most things. Kingdom Come Deliverance only takes half the opening cinematic to load now instead of the whole thing.
Basically any SSD will load faster than the PS4 will handle. The main feature you want is Active Garbage Collection, as no-one has confirmed if the PS4 supports TRIM - the chipset does support it, but no one knows if it’s on.
Nice Find
The copy/transfer speeds for this drive seem terrible https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/crucial-bx500-ssd,5377-…
I have a 250gb one.
Write speeds fall off the cliff after the first perhaps 3-5gb, but read speeds are consistently good.
Handy if you’re plugging it into your telly or something, for the price.
I’d spend a little more for an evo if shuffling files around constantly.
Three of my Crucial (MX and BX) have died in the last 4 years.
All were bought from deals here.
Last failure was last week. Windows froze after ON for a while.
The total write on the disk is not even 2TB.
These PCs are usually on 24/7.
When these died, they’re around 20,000 hours mark.
When I tried cloning the disk, it says couldnt complete the cloning, hardware failure and disk i/o error.
Tried copying the data manually, some cannot be copied, mostly older files, lucky I have backup but I’m staying away from Crucial unless it’s a gift for someone you don’t like xD
Stick with Samsung for quality.
I've done all the googling I can but still so lost when it comes to SSD types - is this suitable for my main drive (OS etc) or should I step up to the MX/Samsung EVO etc?
It depends on your budget and how much of a purist you are.
The Samsung drives are better in a number of ways. But you pay for that (quality always costs..).
This drive is perfectly fine for a main drive for 99% of people.
If you had the extra dollars then you'd want the Samsung. If you didn't care that much and just want something that's much much better than spinning rust, you'd definitely get this.
Put it this way, any SSD will most certainly boot up your PC/Laptop quicker than any platter-spinning HDD ever will. I am still running 10yr old machines and a SSD has given them a new life! So, if u are not chasing the fancy stuff, this is a bargain per $/GB from a SSD.
It's fine for general usage because most apps and even OS loading tend to be able to benefit a lot from SLC cache.
However, its sustained write speed is at traditional hard drive level. So, it's not suitable as a data / video backup SSD (writing a lot of large files to it constantly). Gaming, it's fine. But, the initial copying from another drive could be slow. It may not be an issue if your current gaming drive is a traditional HDD.
Random read/write is on the low end of SSDs. Lack of DRAM adds insult to injury. Still, it's better than traditional hard drives.
Kinda depends on your PC/laptop, if it's current gen, MX500 or Samsung EVO for $30 more when discounted + after cashback might be better.
these drives are aimed to be thrown in consoles or laptops that users wont care about performance in. you're better off getting their mx series ssd's for a bit more if you want better read/writes.
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Thank you.