expired Posted by NightHound • Jun 21, 2021
Jun 21, 2021 11:27 AM
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expired Posted by NightHound • Jun 21, 2021
Jun 21, 2021 11:27 AM
Prime Members: 2TB Crucial BX500 SATA 2.5" Internal Solid State Drive
+ Free S/H$147
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But if your doing normal things. Only downloading things to it on occasion. This drive is very good. I doubt you would notice a difference between it and an MX as far as performance and snappiness goes. It's drive life for the average user is gonna be about the same. It's when you write like 5-10gb files to it constantly for minutes or hours at a times, this will come to a crawl. But that's unrealistic.
The cheaper low end non dram cache drives, if you really want to test them out and see how Dram can help, is do some really big file transfers, like video editing files for example. After a couple Gbs on a cheaper non dram cache drive the read writes will go from let's say 400 down to 80. I've pushed a BX drive in a similar test and it was still consistently hovering around 500mb read writes. I guess you would have to be writing some serious data to slow one down.
If your the kind of person needing to constantly read and write data to an SSD all the time, get a MX series or nvme drive from crucial, Samsung or sk Hynix or something. Mission critical data should be on a more high performance drive
If your trying to get some more storage for a laptop and want to load your movies on there once and keep documents and pictures and only use it whenever, this drive will be just fine and it's a very snappy drive too. I like BX drives
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