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Posted 25 December 2017
Crucial MX300 525GB SATA 2.5 Inch Internal Solid State Drive - CT525MX300SSD1 at Amazon for £110
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sorted byThe 1TB is available for £205. Bear in mind though that the 1TB MX500 is available at Crucial for £234 uk.crucial.com/gbr…sd1 (edited)
Yes, you should be able to use it in a desktop pc as long as you have a SATA port available on your motherboard (which is highly likely). You'll also want to check that you have a 2.5" bay in your case or get an inexpensive 3.5" to 2.5" caddy if you don't want to leave your SSD dangling inside your case.
Eh? Please backup with technical details/links? That scenario would render these useless as a storage medium.
I used to be happy to pay £1per mb for hard drives.
They can lose data if unplugged for a long time, but they are totally fine if unused.
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Debunked stories
conclusion: don't worry. (edited)
Yes.
I just replaced my old Crucial M500 with the 1TB MX300, never had a single disk error or related fault in 5 years.
Why?
Yes, needs a sata3 motherboard connection to get the best speed, which all recent ones should have.
Dreaming given brexit and state of supply/exchange rates
who knows? I'm sure there'll be plenty of reasons given why everything might go up in price. Grab some SSD's now then!
I left mine dangling. It still works. Very well. I can't verify if it is faster than the mx500 or an evo 850 but it was cheapest at the time of purchase.
nvme are known to overheat and thus throttle the speed to protect the drive
Have a heatsink on it
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Yup SSDs do lose data if left unplugged for a long time. Normal flash usbs haven't seen this and I would say for most people this isn't something you would experience