Similar deal was back in June 2021 prices below for comparison:
- Amazon $119
- eBay $128
- Staticice $116 + delivery
Crucial BX500 1TB SSD $99.95 + Delivery @ Shopping Square
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This is part of Black Friday / Cyber Monday deals for 2021
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dramless but TLC nand.
I guess this is ok for a secondary drive (aka storing apps and files backup?)
Yeah, pretty much, games too. Basically don't want to be writing to it too often and not for main boot drive.
because it boots slow or because booting from it damages it?
@dbmitch: This LTT video explains some of the drawbacks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybIXsrLCgdMThey are slower to boot and opening applications versus a DRAM SSD but you're not really going to notice versus a HDD.
The bigger concern is that the repeated writes will cause a shorter lifespan and lead to poor performance as the boot drive.
@Caped Baldy: Still better than any HDD
A home user wouldn't even hit the TBW spec limit in 10 years time so nand write lifespan is nothing to worry about. Besides TBW is just a number it's not actual rating, the real TBW is often 3x higher.
QLC lol. The older 960GB is TLC. Newer 1TB, 2TB drives are QLC.
Waiting patiently for PLC drive deals … 😂
cheeky crucial
Pymble Ladies College?
Penta-Level Cell
PLC means "REALLY unreliable and slow" QLC just means "maybe unreliable, maybe slow"
If I recall, it's a famously bad SSD for performance reasons.
Used to be no SSD you buy could be bad, but then they released this.
remember the OCZ Vertex 2?
Pepperidge farm remembers
My first SSD!
Samsung is better (and external)
Thanks 🙏
This is the perfect SSD for something like a PS4/slim/pro console
I would admit in this context it would be quite good, I think yeah? Even PS5 if you use it as the "PS4 drive" - that's where my SSD is.
+$10 delivery for metro.