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Various Retailers have 4TB Crucial MX500 2.5" 3D NAND SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (CT4000MX500SSD1) on sale for $164.99. Shipping is free.

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Amazon [amazon.com] has 4TB Crucial MX500 2.5" Internal SATA Solid State Drive on sale for $164.99. Shipping is free

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  • Sequential reads/writes up to 560/510 mb/s and random reads/writes up to 95k/90k on all file types
  • Accelerated by micron 3D NAND technology
  • Integrated Power Loss Immunity preserves all your saved work if the power unexpectedly gets cut
  • Aes 256-bit hardware-based encryption keeps data safe and secure from hackers and thieves
  • Crucial 5-year limited warranty
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    Rating: (4.7 out of 5 stars)
    Reviews: 97,755 Amazon Reviews
    Product Name: Crucial MX500 4TB 3D NAND SATA 2.5 Inch Internal SSD, Mechanical Hard Disk 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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    It should work. This is a 2.5" SATA SSD and only requires 5V. I've never seen a consumer SSD or 2.5" drive that requires 12V.



    Nothing I've ever seen in the consumer realm.



    The P3 is a DRAM-less (but supports HMB), QLC, NVMe drive. The MX500 has DRAM (512MB), TLC, and is SATA. Technically, the MX500 should theoretically be more reliable, due to the TLC NAND and presence of DRAM. Reality could be different.

    The performance characteristics can be quite different. The NVMe P3 will have much higher peaks but may have lower lows. When the pSLC write cache is filled, peak sequential writes could drop from >3GB/s to as low as 100MB/s. The MX500 will never reach speeds much beyond 500MB/s (due to the SATA bus) but probably won't drop much, even when the pSLC is full. Realistically, if you're not doing lots of large writes, you probably won't notice a difference. Personally, I'd favor the MX500.
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    Wasn't this $5 cheaper from somewhere else just a few days ago? Black Friday sucks so far this year. They marking prices up instead of down.
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    11-23-2023 at 11:38 PM.
    11-23-2023 at 11:38 PM.
    Quote from jpmtotoro :
    I checked a few sites, and the universal response was that any normal 2.5" sata ssd is going to solely use 5v.

    Seems like a safe buy (plus easy return if needed)

    Thanks mate
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    11-24-2023 at 08:04 AM.
    11-24-2023 at 08:04 AM.
    Quote from ed31337 :
    Wasn't this $5 cheaper from somewhere else just a few days ago? Black Friday sucks so far this year. They marking prices up instead of down.
    No. This is the cheapest it's ever been.

    https://urlhasbeenblocked/product/B09FRRWVWX​
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    Tbl5143
    11-24-2023 at 11:29 AM.
    11-24-2023 at 11:29 AM.
    Thanks, picked up 2 for my Nas. Now need 2 more, other brand to spread the risk. Hopefully something pops up. Thought about putting platters in but the CMR drives in this capacity aren't much cheaper (except the Seagate maybe). Biggest factor though is this is going to be a whole lot more quiet. The 4 drives in my old Nas have been way too noisy, had to abandon it into my equipment closet...
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    cdiddy4224
    11-24-2023 at 04:42 PM.
    11-24-2023 at 04:42 PM.
    Quote from Zer0Zer0 :
    No. This is the cheapest it's ever been.

    https://urlhasbeenblocked/product/B09FRRWVWX​

    Wrong…connection had it for 159.95 about a week ago. I bought one at that price.
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    11-24-2023 at 09:31 PM.
    11-24-2023 at 09:31 PM.
    Quote from Tbl5143 :
    Thanks, picked up 2 for my Nas. Now need 2 more, other brand to spread the risk. Hopefully something pops up. Thought about putting platters in but the CMR drives in this capacity aren't much cheaper (except the Seagate maybe). Biggest factor though is this is going to be a whole lot more quiet. The 4 drives in my old Nas have been way too noisy, had to abandon it into my equipment closet...
    Not sure if 4TB for NAS would be a good idea. It is better to have nVME cache and mechanical NAS HDD, unless you dont have that many files.
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    11-24-2023 at 09:48 PM.
    11-24-2023 at 09:48 PM.
    I've been reading crucial has lowered the dram from 2GB [older versions] to 512MB [current models of MX500 line]. this seems like a huge change.. feel like crucial shoulda just discontinued the mx500 and made a mx505 or something so people would know this.
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    11-24-2023 at 09:56 PM.
    11-24-2023 at 09:56 PM.
    Quote from Tbl5143 :
    Thanks, picked up 2 for my Nas. Now need 2 more, other brand to spread the risk. Hopefully something pops up. Thought about putting platters in but the CMR drives in this capacity aren't much cheaper (except the Seagate maybe). Biggest factor though is this is going to be a whole lot more quiet. The 4 drives in my old Nas have been way too noisy, had to abandon it into my equipment closet...
    two 4TB ironwolf cost $80.. half the cost of this [ $165 ] .. double the cost. you could get 16TB for what you're paying 8TB for these mx500. i would hardly say that these 'aren't much cheaper' but yeah.. noise will be gone. tho i think HDD are better suited technology for nas type of storage.
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    RoyGeeBiv
    11-25-2023 at 04:40 AM.
    11-25-2023 at 04:40 AM.
    We have been using the MX500 in our servers for five years now (primarily ESXi). Not one failure out of around 50 installed in RAID 10. We arent super data transfer heavy though, but reliability is crazy good IMO.
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    11-25-2023 at 08:41 AM.
    11-25-2023 at 08:41 AM.
    Quote from cdiddy4224 :
    Wrong…connection had it for 159.95 about a week ago. I bought one at that price.
    You're right, that deal was posted as a reply in a thread for the 2TB version and got largely ignored:

    https://slickdeals.net/f/17069890-2tb-crucial-mx500-3d-nand-2-5-internal-solid-state-drive-80-free-shipping?p=167128333#post167128333

    I bought one from Connection as well. The transaction went smoothly. I wasn't asked to call them from a landline or pay using a wire transfer, despite some SDers' fears. It's possible that Connection may only ask people to do that for very high value purchases (e.g. Macbooks).
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    11-25-2023 at 11:04 AM.
    11-25-2023 at 11:04 AM.
    Quote from bieberwhole69 :
    two 4TB ironwolf cost $80.. half the cost of this [ $165 ] .. double the cost. you could get 16TB for what you're paying 8TB for these mx500. i would hardly say that these 'aren't much cheaper' but yeah.. noise will be gone. tho i think HDD are better suited technology for nas type of storage.

    Yeah I know. Half the price. But I think HDDs are overpriced currently. I paid $70 for a WD Red CMR replacement drive 2 years ago or so. HDD is tried and true for sure. But I'll also be backing it up regularly so hopefully this experiment is going to pan out. I ended up ordering 2 more today. I set it up last night with these SSDs and is soo incredibly quiet compared to my old qnap with the spinning platters... I am a bit worried about the data integrity as well but I've also had corruption happen to me with spinning platters.
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    11-25-2023 at 01:02 PM.
    11-25-2023 at 01:02 PM.
    Quote from bieberwhole69 :
    I've been reading crucial has lowered the dram from 2GB [older versions] to 512MB [current models of MX500 line]. this seems like a huge change.. feel like crucial shoulda just discontinued the mx500 and made a mx505 or something so people would know this.
    You're right - the DRAM cache has been lowered to 512MB. They've also lowered the terabytes written rating from 1000TBW (as listed on TechPowerUp for the TLC models) to 360TBW. According to a site called TheOverclockingPage, the 2TB and 4TB models are using QLC now, but Crucial claims that it's still TLC. Why the massively reduced TBW rating then?

    Who knows how much SLC cache it has now - probably not the ~380GB that it used to. I hate it when companies reuse the same model number for a different product :/

    Thank you for the heads up. I'm still considering it, but it does put it in a different light if it's really QLC, since performance might be somewhat lower.
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    11-25-2023 at 01:13 PM.
    11-25-2023 at 01:13 PM.
    Quote from Wireball :
    You're right - the DRAM cache has been lowered to 512MB. They've also lowered the terabytes written rating from 1000TBW (as listed on TechPowerUp for the TLC models) to 360TBW. According to a site called TheOverclockingPage, the 2TB and 4TB models are using QLC now, but Crucial claims that it's still TLC. Why the massively reduced TBW rating then?

    Who knows how much SLC cache it has now - probably not the ~380GB that it used to. I hate it when companies reuse the same model number for a different product :/

    Thank you for the heads up. I'm still considering it, but it does put it in a different light if it's really QLC, since performance might be somewhat lower.
    The crucial.com listing for this model still shows 1000 TBW though: https://www.crucial.com/ssd/mx500...0mx500ssd1

    Also on this datasheet: https://content.crucial.com/conte...yer-en.pdf
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    11-25-2023 at 03:10 PM.
    11-25-2023 at 03:10 PM.
    Quote from Wireball :
    You're right - the DRAM cache has been lowered to 512MB. They've also lowered the terabytes written rating from 1000TBW (as listed on TechPowerUp for the TLC models) to 360TBW. According to a site called TheOverclockingPage, the 2TB and 4TB models are using QLC now, but Crucial claims that it's still TLC. Why the massively reduced TBW rating then?

    Who knows how much SLC cache it has now - probably not the ~380GB that it used to. I hate it when companies reuse the same model number for a different product :/

    Thank you for the heads up. I'm still considering it, but it does put it in a different light if it's really QLC, since performance might be somewhat lower.
    Ok, out of curiosity I opened up one of the drives I received yesterday. It has 4x TLC chips (part MT29F8T08EWLEEM5-QA:E [mou.sr]) and 1x 512 MB DDR3 (part MT41K256M16TW-107Stick Out Tongue [mou.sr]). So I think unless Micron is lying about their parts specifications, I think it is safe to say that these are indeed TLC drives with 512 MB of DDR ram. I'm not expert with how to read these parts spec, but that's my impression.
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    11-25-2023 at 05:34 PM.
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    Are these drives great for 24*7 seeding?
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    11-25-2023 at 05:43 PM.
    11-25-2023 at 05:43 PM.
    Quote from Tbl5143 :
    Yeah I know. Half the price. But I think HDDs are overpriced currently. I paid $70 for a WD Red CMR replacement drive 2 years ago or so. HDD is tried and true for sure. But I'll also be backing it up regularly so hopefully this experiment is going to pan out. I ended up ordering 2 more today. I set it up last night with these SSDs and is soo incredibly quiet compared to my old qnap with the spinning platters... I am a bit worried about the data integrity as well but I've also had corruption happen to me with spinning platters.
    def agree that HDD are overpriced (at least from my perspective), but I guess they are some-what of a niche product now-a-days. if you can afford to use 4TB ssds and that amount of storage space is sufficient.. that's awesome. def can't wait until we have like 10TB nvme's or ssds that are affordable. until then I'll have to buy 8-12TB HDD units, sadly. luckily noise of HDD isn't an issue for me
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