Though not as good as MWave deal, it's the best you can find at the moment.
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I can't find any specs mentioned DRAM cache on crucial website, but a review on Relexed Tech has a specs table showed all MX500 lineup do have DRAM cache, including 4TB.
that'd be so weird for the 4tb to not have dram cache… must be typo
This is as clear as mud since there is no proper information.
According to this:
https://allinfo.space/2021/10/01/crucial-mx500-4-tb-in-the-t…
In the The DRAM is now saved section:
The basic recipe consisting of the SMI controller and 3D-TLC-NAND is therefore retained. However, there is a clear step backwards with the DRAM cache: only a 512 MB DDR3 component is available. That's only an eighth of what would actually be standard with 4 TB SSDs.
Thing is, the photo shows a D9SHD DRAM chip:
https://allinfo.space/wp-content/uploads/fb728d003ed3545ca5b…
Specs:
https://www.micron.com/products/dram/ddr3-sdram/part-catalog…
If you look at Tomshardware's photo of a 2TB version's DRAM chips (one on each side), it adds more confusion.
You decide. Anyway, unless you intend to use this SSD as a server SSD, I doubt you will run workload which large DRAM on SSD matters a lot. If you really want to run that type of workload, wouldn't a high end NVMe SSD be better?
Thanks OP. Ordered 2 to run in SLI. Should help me get more frames in CS:GO.
I dream of the day when we have large capacity SSDs and prices per TB that are, say, 3x higher (compared to the current 4.5x).
This would work well as secoundary storage and have nvme as the main.
Pc prices have gone mad with the 30 and 40 series. But yeah thats an insane amount of money for a secondary drive… what's so wrong with having a hhd for mass storage?
noise
lol hhds are not loud. not compared to fans or gpu's. lol.
But yes if that is your concern and tips the scales towards buying a $400 ssd. get a NAS.
@jake93s: idk i can hear the hard drives from a nas through a wall when im trying to sleep, its more the noise itself
SSD is a quality of life improvement. It comes down to how long you are willing to wait for a game to load.
Or, if you do a lot of video work, and you have a budget to fund this. For OZBers, a lot of us already have plenty of HDDs so naturally some of us want to start exploring getting 4TB SSDs.
Random physical break down due to spinning disks and headers. Cheaper, but not reliable unless you setup some settings with extra hdd.
As someone who wants to go 2TB NVMe + 4TB Sata or NVMe in the future, noise is the primary reason for the secondary drive being a SSD.
Sure, the fans in my system are louder… but only at load. I've tuned my fans to run the components semi-warm but be quiet at idle - I also avoid PSUs and GPUs without a silent idle mode.
And yes, I want to consider a mass-storage NAS in the further future, but internal drives are a notably bigger priority & significantly less hassle.
(Idle meaning low load - not necessarily nothing, ie simple web browsing, or leaving my computer to do a long but unintensive task overnight)
Personally I have a 2 m.2 ssd's in my system. nvme and a sata and for I have a Nas in the garage.
The point I failed to get across previously is this is only a good bargain in the slimiest of scenario's. $430 is a lot of money for a single ssd, you have been able to get 1tb ssds at $100 a pop for a while now; and maybe get it in a m.2 which is a better package (ease of install and use wise).
regarding noise: hhds are the same. they don't spin up unless under load. You shouldn't be putting anything on your HHD that the operating system is constantly accessing (movies/ non primary games).
a ssd/ hhd combo is still the best combo for the vast majority. for anyone else, a 1tb nvme boot drive + a 2tb sata is yet again far better bang for buck. this 4tb ssd is for video editors, professional work or people that piss away money.
regarding noise: hhds are the same.
They're really not lol
they don't spin up unless under load.
Which is why I clarified I meant unintensive tasks, and explicitly ruled out nothing — Such as a slow/long download overnight, or torrenting linux distros.
Nobody sane would deny that a 4TB ssd is bad value, but this is still below usual retail pricing hence it was posted.
Also worth noting that replies like mine are primarily caused by the neg — You're not meant to do so just because you dislike the idea/msrp of a product if it's below the regular retail price/in stock (in the event that stock is hard to come by - not the case here).
According to PC part picker the 4tb model does not have dram cache.