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Best Buy has for My Best Buy Members (free to join): 4TB Crucial MX500 3D NAND 2.5" SATA Solid State Drive SSD (CT4000MX500SSD1) on sale for $227.99 (price shown when logged in). Shipping is free.

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  • Sequential Read: 560 MB/s
  • Sequential Write: 510 MB/s
  • SSD Endurance (TBW): 1000TB
  • Controller: SMI SM2258
  • TLC NAND Flash
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Requires a free myBestBuy account to get the extra $12 discount otherwise it shows up as $239.99.
Discount seems to be limited to one per order.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/sku/...Id=6481715
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That 4TB drive has a single 4 star review.


The rest are one star reviews with a two-star review thrown in.
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It seems that ALL the MX500 drives now have 512MB DRAM. Whether it's the 250GB or the 4TB, they all have the same amount of DRAM.
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02-28-2023 at 07:45 PM.
02-28-2023 at 07:45 PM.
Quote from NeatShop7155 :
just to remind you guys 4TB is much slower than 2TB, 4TB is only having 512 dram!!!
Any SATA SSD made in the last 5 years or so is going to be limited by the SATA interface. Most DRAM issues in newer SSDs (controllers) have been largely mitigated by using dynamic SLC caching.

The DRAM is mostly beneficial these days for holding the allocation table for the controller instead of loading it into system RAM and getting a latency hit.
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02-28-2023 at 08:36 PM.
02-28-2023 at 08:36 PM.
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I can't even begin to describe my disgust and loathing for Win 11... Have tried it on multiple computers (stuck with it on one) and found so many bugs/errors it wasn't funny. I basically hate everything about it..... I avoid using a new computer because of the OS...

Microsoft's worst OS releases... Windows 8, Windows Bob, Windows 11 (which makes 98 and Vista with UAC look like gifts from the Gods)...

MS tries to force that shlt on us, so i went in and changed the Group Policy on a Win 10 Pro computer to prevent Win 11 from ever downloading. All my computers will be changed or I'll update the registry to prevent it. I think I'll gladly stay on Win 10 for another 10 years...
Yeah... not going to Windows 11 either because I use vertical task bars and they took that out after having it in their OS's for years. Ridiculous. Hopefully they fix all this crap with Windows 12 or something.
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03-01-2023 at 07:13 AM.
03-01-2023 at 07:13 AM.
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MS tries to force that shlt on us, so i went in and changed the Group Policy on a Win 10 Pro computer to prevent Win 11 from ever downloading. All my computers will be changed or I'll update the registry to prevent it. I think I'll gladly stay on Win 10 for another 10 years...
If only we had a choice of OSes.
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03-01-2023 at 08:25 AM.
03-01-2023 at 08:25 AM.
2TB is not on sale ?
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03-01-2023 at 08:42 AM.
03-01-2023 at 08:42 AM.
Quote from luckygecko :
If only we had a choice of OSes.
I use one laptop running Windows 7. Absolutely no reason to give it up... Several others Win 10.

One Win 11 - the black sheep... I feel a little giddy every time I power it down...MS had layoffs and I prayed it was the Win 11 team.. en masse....

BTW - MS is got a little frisky in the last update (win 10 Pro) by going in and changing my video file associations so it can drive me to its new media player software they installed without my permission, which is one step closer to their upcoming "rental" plan and their monthly rental editor, aka crapchamp, or whatever they call it.
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03-01-2023 at 02:41 PM.
03-01-2023 at 02:41 PM.
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Disappointed to hear they are using QLC in the later versions of the higher capacity drives. They should have saved that for the economy line of SATA drives not the performance SATA drives, which these are supposed to be. Also concerning that they have cut back on the cache memory. Crucial used to be the gold standard, but this is kind of sad. I'll pass on their drives if they keep doing this sort of thing. Samsung and Hynix make similar drives at similar price points and usually don't play these sorts of games unless they very clearly disclose it.

Yeah, it may still have a good warranty, and they may agree to send you a new or more likely a refurbished drive when / if your QLC drive dies, but your data will still be gone not to mention the PITA of having to swap it out and restore from a backup if you have one.
I'm not defending Crucial's decisions but there aren't many (if any) good alternatives left in this class. The Samsung 870 EVO has been plagued with reliability issues, WD/SanDisk massively downgraded their better SATA drives, and I'm not aware of a SK Hynix SATA drive in this capacity.

Quote from b.arms :
Any SATA SSD made in the last 5 years or so is going to be limited by the SATA interface. Most DRAM issues in newer SSDs (controllers) have been largely mitigated by using dynamic SLC caching.

The DRAM is mostly beneficial these days for holding the allocation table for the controller instead of loading it into system RAM and getting a latency hit.
The SATA bus is going to limit peak sequentials but that's not what impacts most people. Random I/O is much more important for the average user and comes nowhere close to saturating the SATA interface.

SLC caching is not a substitute for DRAM. They perform different tasks. The pSLC cache functions as a write buffer. DRAM holds the Flash Translation Layer (FTL) which keeps track of where data is stored in the NAND. SATA drives cannot store FTL data in system RAM. That is only possible with NVMe drives that support HMB. DRAM-less SATA drives have to constantly access the FTL directly from the NAND, which is massively slower than DRAM. This can be particularly detrimental to random I/O performance, which is why such drives are not ideal as OS drives.

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BTW - MS is got a little frisky in the last update (win 10 Pro) by going in and changing my video file associations so it can drive me to its new media player software they installed without my permission, which is one step closer to their upcoming "rental" plan and their monthly rental editor, aka crapchamp, or whatever they call it.
I was wondering why my file associations got messed up. I guess that explains it.
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03-02-2023 at 08:11 AM.
03-02-2023 at 08:11 AM.
Quote from shino_kun :
Mine only has one sticker and says 4000GB with the same UPC # 649528906472.
Like this image [neweggimages.com]

Good call on contacting Best Buy for the discrepancy and glad you were able to get a replacement.
Thanks. The replacement drive BB sent has no overlay sticker, the retail box lists 4000GB and looks exactly like the image you linked from Newegg.

Side rant: 4000GB *it not* 4TB. 1TB = 1024GB, not 1000GB (where the lower value is used in marketing material), so 4TB is 4096GB. The short changed 96GB is enough for an OS boot partition!
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Yeah... not going to Windows 11 either because I use vertical task bars and they took that out after having it in their OS's for years. Ridiculous. Hopefully they fix all this crap with Windows 12 or something.
There are third-party fixes for that. That would be a deal-breaker, if not.
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There are third-party fixes for that. That would be a deal-breaker, if not.
I don't want to have to use a 3rd party fix for something that should be a basic feature in all modern operating system these days, and that has been in Windows for many years (until they took it out in Windows 11). 3rd party OS fixes can also break whenever Microsoft issues more patches - which is constantly.

Windows 11 is a dud operating system. Hopefully that means Windows 12 will be another good one, up there with XP, Windows 7, and Windows 10.
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I don't want to have to use a 3rd party fix for something that should be a basic feature in all modern operating system these days, and that has been in Windows for many years (until they took it out in Windows 11). 3rd party OS fixes can also break whenever Microsoft issues more patches - which is constantly.

Windows 11 is a dud operating system. Hopefully that means Windows 12 will be another good one, up there with XP, Windows 7, and Windows 10.
Agreed, but if you need it then the option is there.
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