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Best Buy has for MyBestBuy Members (free to join): 4TB Crucial MX500 3D NAND 2.5" SATA Solid State Drive SSD (CT4000MX500SSD1) on sale for $208.99. Shipping is free.

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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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Excellent drive at an amazing price! Bought 2x for RAID 0 bulk Steam installs array. The DRAM is an absolute must for drives this size if you make a lot of transfers. This could also be a great option for an external enclosure to add to a game console.


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Yeah but it's TrashEgg. The retailer that didn't think twice about divulging customer purchase data to state tax authorities. And the best part: they didn't even have to. They did it, and didn't notify customers either. And that's to say nothing of the tons of complaints about their poor handling of returns over the years. Including most recently the scandal involving them refusing returns on faulty motherboards they sold. What a great retailer. Haven't bought from them in years, and will never again.
it's also sold by a third party, and the seller seems quite new. it seems like newegg will fulfill rmas, but still buy at your own risk.

for example, their return policy is:
Customer is responsible for return shipping expenses and restocking fee unless otherwise explicitly states on the product.

on the product, it says:
Return Policies
Return for refund within: 30 days
This item is covered by BTC and PC home Return Policy. <- this directs you back to their return policy page from which i quoted above

so neither page explicitly says free returns. obviously if things work as intended and you don't plan on returning it, new sellers like these pose no problem. but when things go wrong, that's where you really see the difference between places like amazon and smaller third party sellers.

i'd personally pay the extra $12 for the added peace of mind, but to each their own.
OTOH its MUCH cheaper now. You can go spend 2x for drives w/ more RAM and greater endurance and well that doesn't really matter too much for SATA drives. Heck you can buy 2 for the price of 1 high spec and mirror them.

Also they don't magically blow up when the TBW is exceeded. I have a number of SSD that are years old (granted they were better made and not QLC junk) that have all exceeded TBW and not a single once has gave up the ghost yet. That is why backups are important. Any drive will die eventually.

You also have to take into account we are hovering at $50 a TB which is down 70-80% in the last few years so maybe in 5-7 years when this one dies its $10 a TB.

You make a great point SSD vendors have been pulling bait and switch w/ controllers/RAM/dramless/TLC/QLC now for a few years and keeping the same SKU. That should be a criminal act but it seems the US consumer protections are bought and paid for. But the computer industry has alway been rife w/ lies. Monitor sizes, terabyte is not a terabyte, this CPU chipset will last, not divulging SMR, etc.... Thankfully there are YT and the like channels calling them out for their deceptions, and this leaves a bad taste in people's mouths.

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elf
03-19-2023 at 01:55 AM.
03-19-2023 at 01:55 AM.
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Is there a Samsung equivalent for MX500 4tb?
yes, but its listed at 340 bucks at the moment, Linky [amazon.com]
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03-19-2023 at 02:02 AM.
03-19-2023 at 02:02 AM.
wait for $100
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03-19-2023 at 03:59 AM.
03-19-2023 at 03:59 AM.
Quote from elf :
yes, but its listed at 340 bucks at the moment, Linky [amazon.com]
Thanks. Thats a huge price difference from MX500 Stick Out Tongue
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03-19-2023 at 08:57 AM.
03-19-2023 at 08:57 AM.
Quote from av911 :
I'm sure most SSDs nowadays have their own "TRIM" function built-in, as to not rely on the OS.
It is not the same it is called GC or Garbage Collection but the OS must support the TRIM command to do the intended function. That was an issue in certain OS and well it remains in TivoOS which is a really old version of Linux. This becomes exacerbated on a system like Tivo which by nature fills up its drive.

If you want to know more about the TRIM command:
https://www.digitalcitizen.life/s...it-useful/
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03-19-2023 at 12:02 PM.
03-19-2023 at 12:02 PM.
Quote from muchwow :
it's also sold by a third party, and the seller seems quite new. it seems like newegg will fulfill rmas, but still buy at your own risk.

for example, their return policy is:
Customer is responsible for return shipping expenses and restocking fee unless otherwise explicitly states on the product.

on the product, it says:
Return Policies
Return for refund within: 30 days
This item is covered by BTC and PC home Return Policy. <- this directs you back to their return policy page from which i quoted above

so neither page explicitly says free returns. obviously if things work as intended and you don't plan on returning it, new sellers like these pose no problem. but when things go wrong, that's where you really see the difference between places like amazon and smaller third party sellers.

i'd personally pay the extra $12 for the added peace of mind, but to each their own.
If you receive a damaged or defective product you do not have to pay to return it, the seller must pay to retrieve it, no matter what their policy says. Rightful Rejection is a concept written into state law that's based on the Uniform Commercial Code and is also mirrored in credit card merchant policies.

Essentially any retailer who sells and ships a product is responsible for getting a working, undamaged item to you that matches their product description. If the product is different than described, damaged or defective it is their responsibility to retrieve the product, all you have to do is make it available.

The seller can write whatever they want in their sales agreement, demand restocking fees and that the buyer pay for return shipping but it's all just hot air. These things are not enforceable no matter what they say. If you Rightfully Reject an item the transaction will ultimately cost you nothing.
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03-19-2023 at 12:04 PM.
03-19-2023 at 12:04 PM.
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Will this fit in intel nuc?
Depends on the NUC. While all are quite small, some are too small to mount a 2.5" internally and larger models (IIRC) have the port and mounting points to install one internally.
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03-19-2023 at 04:46 PM.
03-19-2023 at 04:46 PM.
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The seller can write whatever they want in their sales agreement, demand restocking fees and that the buyer pay for return shipping but it's all just hot air. These things are not enforceable no matter what they say. If you Rightfully Reject an item the transaction will ultimately cost you nothing.
You may be right about it not being enforceable, but note that it likely would be a big pain in the neck to deal with the vendor if they have terms like that. I've now had (2) different vendors - one Newegg Marketplace vendor and Monoprice - really drag out order issues over a month recently. In both cases I was sent what was clearly the wrong item, and it took me literally a month to resolve and get a refund in both cases. Not to mention the time I had to spend going back and forth with both of them, taking pictures and documenting the wrong item, taking the item to the return shipping location (which for some people may be a big headache all by itself).

The transaction might not cost anything dollar-wise in the long run, but when a vendor goes out of their way to make it a hassle, it sure has a cost. Having several hundreds of dollars tied up in refunds and dealing with a painful return process has it's own costs.

Everyone's free to do what they want, but I would never encourage someone to do business with a company who has anti-consumer language in their T&C.
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03-20-2023 at 02:59 PM.
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$203 @Newegg

https://www.newegg.com/crucial-4t...2XMJTU7098

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03-23-2023 at 01:44 PM.
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Sluggish compared to a Samsung 870 EVO .
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03-23-2023 at 04:01 PM.
03-23-2023 at 04:01 PM.
I'm afraid to ask... But I'm still gonna. Why are we having so much discussion over a SATA ssd? It has better TBW, at 1000 vs Crucial P3 Plus's 800. But we're talking 500ish mbps vs 4,800ish mbps. Even if you are out of ports, a pcie adapter is tens of dollars. Even if you specifically want sata for like a NAS, the market is changing and so the SATA drives should come down in price...right? And really if you are running a nas you probably should dump your money in reliable 14, 16, 20tb spinning disks no?
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I'm afraid to ask... But I'm still gonna. Why are we having so much discussion over a SATA ssd? It has better TBW, at 1000 vs Crucial P3 Plus's 800. But we're talking 500ish mbps vs 4,800ish mbps. Even if you are out of ports, a pcie adapter is tens of dollars. Even if you specifically want sata for like a NAS, the market is changing and so the SATA drives should come down in price...right? And really if you are running a nas you probably should dump your money in reliable 14, 16, 20tb spinning disks no?
Don't try to make sense with this crowd Smilie

I think this would be a perfectly fine steam/game/backup drive but could still come down in price.
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03-23-2023 at 04:58 PM.
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Wow! Just wow! Repped!
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03-23-2023 at 05:49 PM.
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Quote from MiaoL6832 :
I'm afraid to ask... But I'm still gonna. Why are we having so much discussion over a SATA ssd? It has better TBW, at 1000 vs Crucial P3 Plus's 800. But we're talking 500ish mbps vs 4,800ish mbps. Even if you are out of ports, a pcie adapter is tens of dollars. Even if you specifically want sata for like a NAS, the market is changing and so the SATA drives should come down in price...right? And really if you are running a nas you probably should dump your money in reliable 14, 16, 20tb spinning disks no?
In some scenarios MX500 can be better than P3 Plus. E.g. if you're filling an empty drive with data to 75%, I'm pretty sure that MX500 will finish the job ahead, because P3 will drop down to 100MB/s after filling ~25% of the drive while MX500 will maintain its ~500MB/s write speed all the way through.
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03-23-2023 at 06:04 PM.
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In some scenarios MX500 can be better than P3 Plus. E.g. if you're filling an empty drive with data to 75%, I'm pretty sure that MX500 will finish the job ahead, because P3 will drop down to 100MB/s after filling ~25% of the drive while MX500 will maintain its ~500MB/s write speed all the way through.

Interesting. I can see that for a small capacity drive with a large cache, if such a thing exists. But what would cause a 4tb drive to reduce in sequential write speed after 1tb? Certainly not a cache thing anymore at that point?
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03-23-2023 at 06:07 PM.
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Will this SSD good enough for PS4 for both R/W speed and quality?
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