Looking at upgrading my HDD. I came across Crucial MX500 for $119, currently cheapest compare to Amazon $127 and Shopping Express $124.94.
Crucial MX500 2.5" 1TB SATA Internal SSD 560MB/s CT1000MX500SSD1 $119 + $9.90 Delivery ($0 SYD C&C) @ PCByte
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KingCobra on 19/01/2022 - 21:30 pcbyte.com.au (373 clicks)
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Last edited 19/01/2022 - 21:33 by 1 other user
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Yeah but still better than BX
Thank you for your for advice. I am upgrading HDD on iMac 2012.
Probably the best upgrade you can do. The machine will fly
would rather have this than a budget / dramless nvme (speaking as someone who has this and a budget dramless nvme crucial p1)
what problems have you had with the p1?
gets very (very) slow with sustained writes
edit: see this graph, which also includes the mx500: https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/QZ4ayTvSuv9bu6AGWAtjoG-970…
I also found that it overheated quite badly, and thus throttled additionally.
also I think the amount it can write without slowing down decreases the more full the drive is
Yea but it better be a TLC Dram/SLC Cache'd specced nvme or it's not worth it.
If your motherboard supports it, you really want nvme. They are 5 or 6 times faster than the one you are looking at.
This is highly misleading - this is only true if you are talking about sequential read/writes, at sufficient queue depth, and, particularly in the case of writes, as long as you have not exceeded the SLC cache.
The simple truth is that for the vast majority of use cases as a system / application drive (which is what most people use SSDs for), the most important performance metric is random read / writes (IOPS) at very low queue depths, where the difference between NVME and SATA SSDs are not really that pronounced.
Comparison would be like HDD = walking, SATA SSD = Camry, NVME SSD = Ferrari. Sure, the Ferrari is faster, but the daily use cases where that actually matters is miniscule. The important point is that both SATA / NVME SSDs are far, far better than a HDD. If you need an NVME SSD for the sequential performance, you know who you are already.
Best analogy i've heard
Thanks - very informative and the first time I have heard anything other than 'get NVME, it is 5x faster'. I now get it that it depends if you are sitting there reading and writing 10GB+ files on a regular basis.
I just love spending cough waisting money on my PC,.. so best it is for my baby,. NVMe it is 👍😁
This is a good analogy but it is flawed,
Sata is half duplex, nvme is full
Nvme que depth is over 2000 times larger than sata.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NVM_Express#Comparison_with_AH…NVMe is a far far superior technology, the previous posts comparing this drive to a dramless nvme is like comparing a Humvee to a F35, totally different class.
For general everyday system use however, yes the difference is minor.
Not a bad price, but as you pointed out, Amazon is cheaper, although not by much.
I suppose it depends on who'd you rather do business with.
I believe I still have an available SATA slot in my Lenovo Y540. Do I need a certain connector for this? Cheers.
No, standard SATA like hard disk.
If your motherboard supports it, you really want nvme. They are 5 or 6 times faster than the one you are looking at.