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Crucial BX500 240GB 3D NAND SATA 2.5-Inch SSD - CT240BX500SSD1 $38 + Delivery ($0 with Prime) @ Amazon AU

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Crucial BX500 240GB 3D NAND SATA 2.5-Inch SSD - CT240BX500SSD1 $38 + Delivery ($0 with Prime) @ Amazon AUAffiliate
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Nice 240gb boot drive for Laptops and PCS with 2.5 inch SATA

  • Boot up faster. Load files quicker. Improve overall system responsiveness
  • 300% faster than a typical hard drive
  • Improves battery life because it’s 45x more energy efficient than a typical hard drive
  • Micron 3D NAND – advancing the world's memory and storage technology for 40 years
  • Crucial 3-year limited warranty

Speed tests over 500 MB/s reads and writes

Limited to 3 per customer by Amazon

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  • bazingaa on 02/09/2020 - 07:27

    Good price for a good drive after a long time

  • misu p on 02/09/2020 - 07:36
    +6

    Dramless drive, just pay 15 AUD more and get one with dram. Or do not use for OS.

  • shaybisc on 02/09/2020 - 08:22

    What's causing the big price reduction for ssd's?

  • pennypincher98 on 02/09/2020 - 09:08

    BX500 seems a good price.
    MX500 250GB is $57 it seems.

  • Manny Calavera on 02/09/2020 - 09:13

    Be warned, these tend to chugalug something horrible if you try to copy too much stuff over to it in a row.

    I can't remember what the magic number is, though.

    • AlextheMeertkat on 02/09/2020 - 10:17
      +1

      I can confirm that with my personal experience.
      Tried to copy few gigs of photos/videos and it died completely in the middle of the process. I did my best to bring it back to life but nothing helped so binned it after a month of various efforts to raise it from the dead.
      I have been extremely sceptical about ssds since then.

      • bheart on 02/09/2020 - 10:27

        Havent had a (normal) harddrive failure for a long long time (many years)

        Is this common with SSD? I havent used SSD in my life

        • bazingaa on 02/09/2020 - 13:19

          I feel that SSD last long than some HDD. I am using a cheap Drevo X1 60GB drive for almost 5 years now as my laptop OS drive. I have the same BX500 as desktop OS drive but still working fine. I have used it to make ISO before burning to BD-R continuously (around 24GB write-read ) but still working fine. But it gets quite hot around 70 degrees as I remember when I was burning discs in a row. Can't complain as I bought it for $36 delivered.

  • Clear on 02/09/2020 - 09:43

    All my USBs are basically portable SSDs now with all these cheap deals going around.

    • BluBoy on 02/09/2020 - 11:29
      +1

      I didnt even think of this. This would be a great idea for Sysadmins to use something like ventoy
      What case are you using?

      … When can we expect M.2 drives to come down to this sort of price?

      • frankfu1122 on 02/09/2020 - 11:47

        I run Ventoy on my SSD USB using this stick. It might be slightly dearer but with no wires dangling around, it makes it a cleaner solution while having similar speeds.

      • bio on 02/09/2020 - 13:53

        Ventoy looks great. Thank you for mentioning, I didn't know about it.

        • frankfu1122 on 02/09/2020 - 14:26
          +1

          Yeah Ventoy has changed my life. I threw away so many old USB sticks when I first discovered Ventoy.

  • slick7 on 02/09/2020 - 10:46
    +1

    got an old mac mini my kids use and it annoys me that it takes 3mins to turn on - this should solve that :)

    • Manny Calavera on 02/09/2020 - 10:52

      Don't do that.

      Teach them patience!

      • slick7 on 02/09/2020 - 11:01
        +2

        it's my patience because i turn it on for them - they're quite young and need to be supervised on the computer anyway :)

        I might turn that mac mini into some sort of server if the performance improves enough - it would probably run plex server much better than my Drobo but it will expensive to run 24/7.

        • snep on 02/09/2020 - 17:34
          +1

          Probably not that expensive, depending on age I reckon it would be ~10w idle

  • azngamer on 02/09/2020 - 11:11

    How does it compare to an Samsung 860 EVO? I know price is very different, but performance wise and longivity wise? Is 860 EVO just overpriced?

    Edit: found comparison

    https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/crucial-bx500-ssd,5377.…

  • garage sale on 02/09/2020 - 13:27
    +1

    thks, grabbed 2, at this price will put into my old laptops and Ebay or gumtree them, going from HDD to SSD for $38 has got to be woth it when selling the clutter, if not at least I will be happier to use the clutter.

    • bio on 02/09/2020 - 14:54

      Username checks out.

  • slick7 on 03/09/2020 - 14:14

    too slow :( I missed out

    was watching a videos on dram cache for SSDs and the reason drives like this are cheaper - it will be way faster than my existing hard disk anyway but is it worth getting something a bit better like the Cruicial MX series? it's $57 on Amazon AU for same size disk https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0781VSXBP/

    Also came across "SLC Cache technology" - wtf is that? $39 for 256GB - guessing the SP drive is actually quite a bit slower than the Crucial above
    https://www.amazon.com.au/Silicon-Power-Performance-Internal…

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