Not the fast SSD on the market but good value with 4.5/5 stars among >1,000 reviews on Amazon US
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failure rates, based on factual number made and number failed and % ? ….. they make ALOT of these.
If they make 100,000 of these, and there are 50 posts, that actually makes it fairly good as it's hard to say if it failed due to hardware or operator error.
More on basis of much lower market share (compared to 850 Evo, etc), though what seems like higher amount of posts regarding failures. Not the most technical basis for such a conclusion, but I would still say their failure rate is much higher than others.
You shouldn't trust any drive.
Trust was the wrong word.
For home use there's a balance between the risk of failure and the time recovery would take - typically the risk of failure is low enough that it really doesn't matter if setting up a new drive would take 2-4 hours of your time and 12-24 hours of downtime (ie downloads, reinstalling windows, etc). The risk with these drives I would say is high enough that you would at least want to take measures to reduce the time required for setting up a new drive if it does fail.
Obviously I would always recommend backing up any unrecoverable documents, but for these even things like game files would almost be worth backing up to avoid potential re-download hassles.
You can mark the expiry of this deal as 30 June !
Nah, MX500 1TB for bit more.
ebay 20% off, futu, and you get MX500 for $315 with local delivery and warranty.
We've had no problems with our Sandisk 1TB SSDs (2 off) but it's not a killer price for the plus , but the MX500 is crucials current model
I'd pay the extra $40 and get crucial from Futu, and after July 1 and gst kicks in it wouldn't even be $40 difference.
Benn using the same one for the last 3 years or so… still going strong
Had one of those fail after only about a year. Just FYI.
Looked online, seems their failure rate is a little higher than you'd expect by the amount of posts about them failing… Good drives for the price (though average speeds), but wouldn't trust them too much.