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4TB Crucial MX500 3D NAND 2.5" SATA Solid State Drive Expired

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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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  • 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.


https://www.amazon.com/gp/product...0DER&psc=1 >Now $219.99
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About This Product
    Product Name: Crucial MX500 4TB 3D NAND SATA 2.5 Inch Internal SSD, up to 560MB/s - CT4000MX500SSD1
    Manufacturer: Crucial
    Model Number: CT4000MX500SSD1
    Product SKU: B09FRRWVWX
    UPC: 649528906472
    ASIN: B09FRRWVWX
    Brand: Crucial
    Item Dimensions LxWxH: 3.95 x 0.28 x 2.75 Inches
    Item Weight: 0.07 Pounds
    Item model number: CT4000MX500SSD1
    Manufacturer: Crucial

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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.
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    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.
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    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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    RAZGRIZ-1
    03-23-2023 at 06:24 PM.
    03-23-2023 at 06:24 PM.
    Quote from fantastli :
    Will this SSD good enough for PS4 for both R/W speed and quality?
    Affirmative.
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    Vic121
    03-23-2023 at 11:26 PM.
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    Im' waiting for everyone's BF to show up in the comment section to say wait for the day after thanksgiving.
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    NoobWeld
    03-24-2023 at 02:10 AM.
    03-24-2023 at 02:10 AM.
    You can buy these directly from crucial.com for $219.99, and get a 10% discount for email signup.
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    Raines8416
    03-24-2023 at 06:27 AM.
    03-24-2023 at 06:27 AM.
    Good price, but at this point I'm waiting for closer to $160 before I'm gonna bite and start replacing my 5x 2TB.
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    demetron
    03-24-2023 at 10:29 AM.
    03-24-2023 at 10:29 AM.
    Quote from MiaoL6832 :
    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?
    A dynamic pSLC cache can be up 25% of the total drive space. Once it's full, there's no space to write anymore, so the subsequent writes will go directly to QLC at much lower speed which is further degraded by moving the data previously written into pSLC cache to QLC (to free the disk space to write). This causes write speed to plummet

    See this review, "Sustained Write Performance and Cache Recovery" section
    https://www.tomshardware.com/revi...he-cheap/2
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    03-24-2023 at 09:37 PM.
    03-24-2023 at 09:37 PM.
    Quote from demetron :
    A dynamic pSLC cache can be up 25% of the total drive space. Once it's full, there's no space to write anymore, so the subsequent writes will go directly to QLC at much lower speed which is further degraded by moving the data previously written into pSLC cache to QLC (to free the disk space to write). This causes write speed to plummet

    See this review, "Sustained Write Performance and Cache Recovery" section
    https://www.tomshardware.com/revi...he-cheap/2 [tomshardware.com]
    Hey thanks man! I never knew about this aspect of it, and I've even read the first page of that very review! lol quite a fail. I got three positives and one negative out of all this:
    Positive:
    1. learning about this
    2. I didn't yet buy a 4tb drive, not sure I will, considering larger capacity spinning disks for media storage.
    3. For my gaming pc I picked up a wd black sn850x, which is generally above 500MBps even once the perf drops.

    The negative:
    1. the wd black sn850x is possibly THE worst performer wrt to this kind of behavior in its price range and perf range.

    I guess for gaming there's no real concern, I doubt it'd be writing much relatively speaking.
    I wonder how those massive enterprise nvme ssd's deal with this. Just straight TLC and charge a crap load? Massive DRAM?
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    03-25-2023 at 08:15 AM.
    03-25-2023 at 08:15 AM.
    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?
    Atomos Ninja V video recorder. The recorder only has a SATA interface, no NVME.
    4K RAW video takes up a lot of space. But 500MB/s is still fast enough.
    Other video recorders, even cameras can also use it.
    Lastly, there are no 4TB TLC NVME drives at this price.
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    demetron
    03-25-2023 at 09:48 AM.
    03-25-2023 at 09:48 AM.
    Quote from MiaoL6832 :
    Hey thanks man! I never knew about this aspect of it, and I've even read the first page of that very review! lol quite a fail. I got three positives and one negative out of all this:
    Positive:
    1. learning about this
    2. I didn't yet buy a 4tb drive, not sure I will, considering larger capacity spinning disks for media storage.
    3. For my gaming pc I picked up a wd black sn850x, which is generally above 500MBps even once the perf drops.

    The negative:
    1. the wd black sn850x is possibly THE worst performer wrt to this kind of behavior in its price range and perf range.

    I guess for gaming there's no real concern, I doubt it'd be writing much relatively speaking.
    I wonder how those massive enterprise nvme ssd's deal with this. Just straight TLC and charge a crap load? Massive DRAM?
    Well, it's not that terrible as you might now be thinking after reading the review. I have a similarly designed 2TB drive (no DRAM, QLC with pSLC buffer) as my Steam game library drive. The initial migration was somewhat painful, it took 75 minutes to copy 850GB from a smaller TLC drive because the speed dropped to 100-120MB/s after the cache was exhausted, but after that it actually has been working just fine for me as I'm not writing massive amounts of data at once to it anymore. Even if I download and install a 100GB game, it's now limited by my 1Gb internet connection, not by the drive write speed.
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