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2TB - Crucial MX500 2.5" SATA III Solid State Drive ( up to 560/510 MB/s) - £98.80 delivered Using Code @ CCL Computers / eBay
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Edited by Brutes, 15 April 2023
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sorted byit seems Samsung is having quality issues, am i better with Crucial ?.
Apparently, 2TB and 4TB models are shipping with QLC nand in Asia markets last year. It may now be available in EU given the lower cost.
above image is from techpowerup website posted in Dec 2022. (edited)
As well as better sequential performance, one less cable to keep tidy. (edited)
amazon.co.uk/dp/…h=1
Ordinary users are rarely aware of the actual issues big brands are known to have- relying too much on reviews from outlets that, let us say, are neither true users of tech, nor free from paid brand bias. However, the Crucial MX 500 series have proven to be a very good SSD product in long term use, and I'd guess you'd opt for them over similar priced SSDs at a similar price. This has more to do with the fact that tech improvements now focus on NVME, and the last changes to SSD tech involved downgrades to QLC flash.
Without a doubt, Crucial expected to have retired the MX 500 devices long before this moment in time- but the MX 500 is solid from a design POV, and the components it uses get cheaper and cheaper with time. The SATA spec is locked in stone with no sign of either AMD or Intel replacing it with something better (they've tried and failed in the past, and no longer care on the desktop- serious innovations are now server systems only). So 500MB/s is as good as it gets, a trivial SSD target today.
Jeez, with the size of the latest games, this is so tempting as another Gaming Drive.
Or maybe just wait it out until the next breakthrough and get a larger drive.
My own MX500 has been battered with video editing for a few years now, still going strong.
Anyone just looking for a TLC NAND SSD for storage and no worried about DRAM cache, this is worth a look -
amazon.co.uk/dp/…c=1 (edited)
Did the card slow down the M.2 transfer speeds ?
Its a route Ive considered in the past but never went down.
A x4 PCIe 2.0 lane will run at 2GB/s While a 3.0 will do 4GB/s.