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4TB Crucial MX500 3D NAND 2.5" SATA Solid State Drive SSD (CT4000MX500SSD1) on sale for
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About this Product:
- Sequential Read: 560 MB/s
- Sequential Write: 510 MB/s
- SSD Endurance (TBW): 1000TB
- Controller: SMI SM2258
- TLC NAND Flash
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The rest are one star reviews with a two-star review thrown in.
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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.
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...
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...
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.
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.
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.
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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Good call on contacting Best Buy for the discrepancy and glad you were able to get a replacement.
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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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.
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.