Crucial MX-Series CT500MX500SSD1 500GB SATA 3 Internal Solid State Drive $61 AC @Staples
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Use code 18174
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I have an MX300 (prior model) from 2016 still running like a clock. Crucial Storage Executive says it has 95% of its remaining life, although it could fail immediately tomorrow (SSDs fail all at once).
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@ctujackbauer said in Crucial MX-Series CT500MX500SSD1 500GB SATA 3 Internal Solid State Drive $61 AC @Staples:
I have an MX300 (prior model) from 2016 still running like a clock. Crucial Storage Executive says it has 95% of its remaining life, although it could fail immediately tomorrow (SSDs fail all at once).
Although supposedly they become read only at that point. I don’t know, luckily I never had a chance to find out.
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Ah man, my SSD is something like seven years old and now you guys got me nervous, lol.
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@midori said in Crucial MX-Series CT500MX500SSD1 500GB SATA 3 Internal Solid State Drive $61 AC @Staples:
Ah man, my SSD is something like seven years old and now you guys got me nervous, lol.
If you backup data regularly, should be ok. If you have a good one and aren’t writing many, many TB per day, then you should be fine.
Even those cheap A-data ones that go on sale often seem to be pretty reliable these days.
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@ctujackbauer Personally I usually go for something like this:
https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-970-EVO-1TB-MZ-V7E1T0BW/dp/B07BN217QG/?tag=phtwllt-20
Although currently, I’m using this:
Here’s what my performance (at least for reads looks like). It’s a bit all over the place, but with the average around 800MB/s, I’m not complaining.
HD Tune: NVMe WDS500G3X0C-00SJ Benchmark
Transfer Rate Minimum : 42.4 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 891.7 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 469.1 MB/sec
Access Time : 0.3 ms
Burst Rate : 131.5 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 22.0%
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@dangeRuss
I don’t have an m.2 slot.
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@ctujackbauer You must have a pretty old computer. My last two laptops had m.2 slots, and I doubt you can buy a desktop now without one.
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@dangeruss
Confirmed old computer. 2013 intel haswell, i7-4770k so nothing I’ve ran has ever been cpu io bound yet. I’ve been waiting for 10nm Intel forever, and I kind of want to see if Intel’s Optane memory gets released to other manufacturers at scale, kind of like how it took a while for non-Intel SATA SSDs.
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@ctujackbauer I’ve been watching LinusTechTips and I would probably go for an AMD machine if I was building one. They seem to have good really price/performance.
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@dangeruss
It is if you needed to build one today. I haven’t run into any slowness though, so waiting to see how the Intel Optane shakes out.
