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1TB Crucial T500 PCIe 4.0 x4 M.2 Internal Solid State Drive Expired

$72.50
$143.99
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Various retailers have 1TB Crucial T500 PCIe 4.0 x4 M.2 Internal Solid State Drive (CT1000T500SSD8) for $72.49. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Community Member danu2000 for sharing this deal

Available Retailers:Features:
  • 1TB Storage Capacity
  • M.2 2280 Form Factor
  • PCIe 4.0 x4 / NVMe 2.0 Interface
  • Sequential Reads up to 7300 MB/s
  • Sequential Writes up to 6800 MB/s
  • Up to 600TB TBW (Total Bytes Written)

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Seems like a decent deal on a high-performing drive.
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Model: Crucial T500 PCIe Gen4 NVMe M.2 Internal Gaming SSD 1TB

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For anyone else considering doing this, keep in mind that it's extremely overkill for even the fastest USB spec out right now.

USB 3.2 Gen 2 tops out at 10Gbps, which is about 1200MB/s, while this drive does most of its sustained reads at around 4000MB/s (32Gbps).

If you jump up to USB 4.0 (20Gbps), you can double it to around 2400MB/s. But that's still nearly half of what this drive can do and it requires a USB 4.0 enclosure that currently costs more than the drive itself.

You can pick a much cheaper drive and it will still perform relative to this one over USB.
COVID caused a huge spike in demand, so suppliers started producing more NAND. Eventually, demand dropped and manufacturers were left with a ton of extra stock. Prices were dropped to sell the excess inventory and production reduced. Now that there's no longer a glut, prices are going back up. This has been widely reported for over a year.
You're completely wrong.

The lowest prices were around July-August of 2023, and they've since gone up… exactly the opposite of what you're saying.

Branded 1TB SSDs could be found for $30-$35 (or less!) and they've nearly doubled in price as manufacturers have scaled back to offset the surplus.

Stop spreading misinformation.

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FreshPrinceSumNLips
03-25-2024 at 06:18 PM.
03-25-2024 at 06:18 PM.
Quote from bigjonnee :
I put one of these in an enclosure and it made the best, fastest external hdd / thumb drive I've every had.
Do you leave the drive connected all the time? Seems there would be heat issues?
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03-25-2024 at 06:41 PM.
03-25-2024 at 06:41 PM.
Quote from vanontom :
I wish there were much cheaper drives, with similar reliability and reputation. One bonus of the speed capabilities is not lost at least, in that combined with relatively slow USB enclosure, may result in very reliable (low temperature) operation. That's what I would tell myself if I needed one. Smilie

I mean, prices aren't where they have been historically, but it was more of a case of "don't go out of your way to seek out a drive with this level of performance if you're just going to throw it in an enclosure".

I also wouldn't recommend a drive where an included heatsink is a default option with the expectation that it will run cool.

Then again, some of these enclosures have heatsinks and fans.
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03-25-2024 at 07:01 PM.
03-25-2024 at 07:01 PM.
Quote from doema :
per reviews, this is one of the fastest gen4 drives and cheapest (outside of price mistakes etc)
Top is SN850X... Passmark at 52k
This is 41k

But you are correct you won't get that number from another $73 drive.
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03-25-2024 at 08:23 PM.
03-25-2024 at 08:23 PM.
Quote from dcm5150 :
Are prices expected to continue to increase? I guess the question is, if the drive is not needed immediately, should I wait for better deals?
If you need buy, if you don't wait. Or look used especially if its a secondary drive for games or media. I don't think you'll get any real world noticable differnces from a 1TB NVME 4.0 and a SATA SSD until DirectStorage becomes more of a thing....
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03-25-2024 at 08:32 PM.
03-25-2024 at 08:32 PM.
Quote from pingb :
Prices have continuously been going down over the last 7 months or so. Not sure what drives you've been looking at. This maybe the bottom for a while though.
No, it's quite the opposite. The drives I bought almost a year ago are well on their way to double the price I paid.

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Are prices expected to continue to increase? I guess the question is, if the drive is not needed immediately, should I wait for better deals?
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NAND flash prices have risen since the second half of 2023 and are expected to reach new highs in the second quarter this year, according to industry sources.

Source: DigiTimes
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03-25-2024 at 09:25 PM.
03-25-2024 at 09:25 PM.
This pales in comparison to the deal last year where the 2TB was $79.99 and the 1TB was $29.99.
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03-25-2024 at 09:29 PM.
03-25-2024 at 09:29 PM.
Quote from FreshPrinceSumNLips :
This pales in comparison to the deal last year where the 2TB was $79.99 and the 1TB was $29.99.

Last I checked, nobody here has a time machine.

Do you?
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03-25-2024 at 11:17 PM.
03-25-2024 at 11:17 PM.
Quote from pingb :
Prices have continuously been going down over the last 7 months or so. Not sure what drives you've been looking at. This maybe the bottom for a while though.
You're completely wrong.

The lowest prices were around July-August of 2023, and they've since gone up… exactly the opposite of what you're saying.

Branded 1TB SSDs could be found for $30-$35 (or less!) and they've nearly doubled in price as manufacturers have scaled back to offset the surplus.

Stop spreading misinformation.
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03-26-2024 at 12:10 AM.
03-26-2024 at 12:10 AM.
This is a decent drive that is quite efficient. However it is not the best design especially for the 1TB and smaller variants. See this guy's comments:
https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc...t/kc2a5v8/
TL;DR: There's nothing wrong with the drive per se, but some of the design choices seem to be driven more by sales and marketing rather than by engineering. As a result, you may see some unexpected performance degradation especially as the drive fills up.
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03-26-2024 at 05:28 AM.
03-26-2024 at 05:28 AM.
Quote from barrera_j :
this was literally the price for 2TB SSDs in December... now it's the price for 1TB

literally any SSD "deal" is garbage right now
Do you have a Time Machine? SSD prices have gone up across the board, this is a good deal for a high end gen 4 drive now.
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03-26-2024 at 06:45 AM.
03-26-2024 at 06:45 AM.
Good deal. Thanks OP
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03-26-2024 at 06:48 AM.
03-26-2024 at 06:48 AM.
Quote from barrera_j :
And more garbage SSD deals...

Garbage SSD or garbage deal on a good SSD?
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03-26-2024 at 07:00 AM.
03-26-2024 at 07:00 AM.
Quote from wherestheanykey :
For anyone else considering doing this, keep in mind that it's extremely overkill for even the fastest USB spec out right now.

USB 3.2 Gen 2 tops out at 10Gbps, which is about 1200MB/s, while this drive does most of its sustained reads at around 4000MB/s (32Gbps).

If you jump up to USB 4.0 (20Gbps), you can double it to around 2400MB/s. But that's still nearly half of what this drive can do and it requires a USB 4.0 enclosure that currently costs more than the drive itself.

You can pick a much cheaper drive and it will still perform relative to this one over USB.

Appreciate your post. Yes. Most people are spending more than they need. Yes, one can future-proof, but by the time enclosures can match speeds, there are much faster drives out there for a lower price. I know your game and play it too! haha.
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03-26-2024 at 07:07 AM.
03-26-2024 at 07:07 AM.
Good price if you NEED one right now. I'm sad to have missed out on the 4TB walmart deal. Just added a deal alert for NVME so I don't miss the next one.
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