The best cheap boot drive, revive old laptops and servers
CT500BX500SSD1
Controller: Probably SMI
Memory: Probably Micron QLC
DRAM Cache: None
Sequential Read: 550 MB/s
Sequential Write: 500 MB/s
Random Read: N/A
Random Write: N/A
Endurance (TBW): 120 TB
Warranty: 3 Years
Size of games these days though 500gb wouldn't go far, probably would go minimum 1TB unless you mainly play 2 or 3 games a lot. But better than nothing!
Any recommendations on software to transfer a Windows boot drive to an SSD?
I’d highly recommend spending the extra for an MX500 if you’re going for a boot volume.
I think the idea is you won't frequently need sustained read/writes for a boot drive.
I think this is better than Patriot P210 for same-ish price?
Crucial’s BX500 provides up to 540/500 MB/s of sequential read/write throughput, but that can drop to an average of just 100 MB/s during a sustained workload. https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/crucial-bx500-ssd,5377.…
For light workloads it is fine. I have been using it as boot drives on older computers.
Would this work on an old 2010 Asus laptop?
If it takes 2.5” Sata drives.
Can any victoria vendor offer the same price for c&c?
I bought 4 Silicon Power 512GB from MSY for $33 each and put them in a 1GB Array of AMD Raid 1+0 just for fun and to see how the technology is working these days.
Read was predictable @ 1078MB/s but write was, understandably, a bit of a dog… I haven't had a chance to play too much with the caching options so it may get a bit faster. Problem is getting Linux to recognise the AMD controlled array as the support is lacking - probably because software raid seems to work better under Linux. But for $132 it was better value then buying 2x1TB in Raid 1 @ 1/2 the read speed.
Redundancy isn't all that important these days with backup options, so I might end up setting all 4 in Raid 0 to get 2TB @ ~2GB/s read - theoretically.
My boot drive is an NVME, this aray was just an experiment.
I’d highly recommend spending the extra for an MX500 if you’re going for a boot volume.
If you’re using a last gen console any SSD will make a huge difference though, highly recommended for that purpose.