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Amazon has 1TB Crucial MX500 2.5" 3D NAND SATA III Internal Solid State Drive SSD on sale for $54.99. Shipping is free.

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Of course I liked it better when it was on sale for $48 Smilie but this is the lowest price I've seen on it for a while... it got recommendations and good reviews from various websites back in it's time for being a reliable quality ssd (2.5 form factor) drive although there's been some controversy about the newer versions of it having problems with the firmware..

... on the other hand I've purchased (thinks) .. going off memory maybe two or three of the newer (firmware wise that is) that I've been using for several months now with no problems... I've purchased .. going off memory here I think maybe nine or ten of them of various sizes (from 250 GB to 1 TB, 1 TB more often than not ) and installed them in various desktop and laptops and have not had problems with any of them.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078211KBB

if that link doesn't work you can search on amazon by the model number, CT1000MX500SSD1

some reviews from way back when the drive was first introduced I believe

https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/crucial-mx500

https://www.tomshardware.com/revi...,5390.html
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I've had two of these die on me with very little use. They were both from the same batch so could have just been that batch being bad.
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PC market is slowing. They had to slow production out of Taiwan b/c they had too many. The price rose because of the slowing of supply but the price is coming down still b/c of demand. People are not buying PC in droves like the were in 2020-2021. PC are considered durable and not a product that gets replaced every 3 years.
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Should be $35. PC industry is getting stagnant
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03-08-2024 at 08:53 PM.
03-08-2024 at 08:53 PM.
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That's what you read (me too) but I'm not sure how true it is. There may have been a firmware update that fixed this at some point. When I updated to Sonoma 14.0 I still had the OE drives installed and it updated to firmware version 2019.0.0.0.0. When I updated to 14.3, I had the corrupt SSD and the Hynix p31 and my firmware did update to 2020.80.5.0 despite the third party drive being the only functional drive installed.

I did see that with Samsung NVME and the trim issues. I don't believe it applies to a SATA drive but I could be wrong as I haven't investigated. I have a WD NVME (SN810) for my Hackintosh boot drive.

interesting, I forget which version required the apple drives, maybe big sur. if that changed then great, I really don't want to ever go back and open it again!

oh and yeah samsung sata drives don't seem to have any issues in the macs afaik.
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03-09-2024 at 02:30 AM.
03-09-2024 at 02:30 AM.
512tb mx100 from 2014 still working flawlessly. Picked up a 4tb for under 200 last year and zero issues.

This price is way too high for 1tb.
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03-09-2024 at 04:44 AM.
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Quote from lennonst :
512tb mx100 from 2014 still working flawlessly. Picked up a 4tb for under 200 last year and zero issues.

This price is way too high for 1tb.
Wow, I didn't realize they had 512tb drives today, let alone in 2014! That must have set you back a lot.
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03-09-2024 at 06:13 AM.
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At least $10 too high.
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03-09-2024 at 06:27 AM.
03-09-2024 at 06:27 AM.
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Wow, I didn't realize they had 512tb drives today, let alone in 2014! That must have set you back a lot.

He probably meant mb 😂
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03-09-2024 at 06:43 AM.
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Quote from DealsMakeMeWeak :
I've had two of these die on me with very little use. They were both from the same batch so could have just been that batch being bad.
Bad batches happen. I've got two of these drives and one was defective. It didn't take too much back and forth to get it RMA'd - replacement is just fine. So outside of general frustrations of figuring out SSD is at fault - good experience.
The other drive is rock solid from day 1.
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03-09-2024 at 06:48 AM.
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Bad batches happen. I've got two of these drives and one was defective. It didn't take too much back and forth to get it RMA'd - replacement is just fine. So outside of general frustrations of figuring out SSD is at fault - good experience.
The other drive is rock solid from day 1.
Yea i still need to rma my bad ones. Ive have two other 250gb versions in a server as a cache pool with a few years of use with no issues so far.
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Pretty happy with my 2TB I bought last year for $80 🌟😁🌟
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Should be $35. PC industry is getting stagnant
you should manufacture them and i will pay $50 each from you.
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so the 870 EVO is reliable after a firmware update?
All I can tell you is that the drives failed tests upon arrival. In our limited experience flashing the firmware has magically made them pass tests. Is it just masking the bad cells is one theory we have but not certain. I've also read of bad batches based on certain nand production.
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Wow, I didn't realize they had 512tb drives today, let alone in 2014! That must have set you back a lot.
Oh wow you caught a typo. Good work!woot
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so the 870 EVO is reliable after a firmware update?
Warning, this is total speculation on my part. I suspect there was a hardware issue with the original release of the 870 EVO, possibly NAND related. Assuming the firmware update actually improves reliability, I wouldn't be surprised if it was more so masking the issue, like how an earlier model was "fixed" by having it constantly re-write the data. I'd be hesitant to trust any of those drives.

A variant with different firmware AND hardware was released last year. I'm hoping this one properly resolved the issue. I have yet to hear of any major issues with it but it might be too early to tell.

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We've had this discussion before when the 4TB version was posted; I've checked three of them since. Internals are fine, aside from possible premature failure problems which may or may not be widespread. The guy that said the internals went down hill bought a fake off AliE.

Controller is SM2259AB
Flash is Micron 176L(B47R) TLC 2048Gb/CE 512Gb/die

(edit) I do think the cache was reduced from initial release though, you get more from Samsung for most equivalent models on that front.
Technically, the amount of DRAM was never changed in the 4TB model, as it wasn't released until at least the third hardware revision of the MX500. The only models that had the amount of DRAM reduced were the 1TB and 2TB models. The 500GB was never changed and the 250GB may have been increased.

Quote from CoralRoom2875 :
Question, I'm not too knowledgable about these kinds of things, but how are these type of SSD's going down in price (I got this same one for $65 back in Dec of 2022) but then you have SSD's like these going up in price: https://slickdeals.net/f/17339205-2tb-samsung-ssd-990-evo-pcie-5-0-m-2-2280-142-free-shipping?src=category_page

Even external hard drive's are going down in price. I remember last year I bought a 5TB WD HD for around $80, now it's around $115
In general, the MX500s have gone up significantly in price as well. The lows were mostly in the middle of last year. I'm pretty sure there were deals with the 4TB MX500 as low as ~$165.
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