Crucial MX500 4TB SSD, 2.5 Inch $449 + Delivery ($0 C&C) @ Umart

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scrimshaw on 04/08/2022 - 14:21 umart.com.au (696 clicks)
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Very good price for a high capacity 4TB SSD using TLC memory, even cheaper than what people were paying from Amazon UK during Prime Day. Currently priced at $498 from Shopping Express and $490 on Amazon.

Specs:
Interface - SATA (6Gb/s)
Sequential Read - 560 MB/s
Sequential Write - 510 MB/s
SSD Endurance (TBW) - 1000TB
5 Year warranty

Crucial's MX500 4TB model comes in a 2.5-inch form-factor and continues to rely on Micron's 3D TLC NAND memory, reports HardwareLuxx. Just like lower-capacity SKUs, the 4TB SSD is rated for up to 560 MB/s sequential read speed, up to 510 MB/s sequential write speed as well as up to 90,000 random read/write IOPS. It is unclear whether the Crucial MX500 4TB drive still relies on Silicon Motion's SM2258 controller, but it is quite likely since switching a controller in a family that is four years old does not make a lot of sense (unless it saves quite a lot of money).

As for endurance, the SSD comes with a five-year warranty and is rated for 1,000 terabytes to be written (TBW), which translates to around 0.13 drive writes per day (DWPD), or around 520GB per day. While 0.13 DWPD is rather low, it should be noted that SATA SSDs these days are not really used for write-intensive workloads in desktop environments. Still, those who need to (re)write a lot of data often should probably think twice before getting this 4TB SSD. Souce: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/crucial-adds-4tb-sku-to-mx…

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  mrtee on 04/08/2022 - 15:12

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  I would say decent, but not very good price.

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  reactor-au on 04/08/2022 - 15:28

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  Cheaper than I paid for 870evo 4tb early last year (~550?).

  You wouldn't expect higher capacity SATA drives to be better value but seems with storage the lower the capacity the better the value .

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    CYMA on 04/08/2022 - 16:09

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    I would say 1tb is the sweet spot for value

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  fleabag on 04/08/2022 - 15:43

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  This is getting tempting, to replace my WD black.

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  kungfuman on 04/08/2022 - 15:50

  bring down the 8tb SSD to this price and you got yourself deal.

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    Guybrush57 on 04/08/2022 - 15:51

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    Release a 16tb SSD at this price and you got yourself deal.

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      Clear on 04/08/2022 - 15:58

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      Buy two 8TB and run in RAID0 ;)

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  BargainKen on 04/08/2022 - 16:08

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  The endurance of 1000TBW seems a little on the lower side for a 4TB, most of the TLC 2TB drives are 1200TBW on average, I would have expected a 4TB TLC drive to give around 2400TBW.

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    BarneyKB on 04/08/2022 - 16:16

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    I feel like you're only going to hit 1000TBW in a reasonable time if you're using it as a direct recording device (i.e.: recording to it with a camera, unloading that footage, repeat) or in a cache for a highly accessed server. If you fill the drive from empty 10 times in a year, it'll last 25 years.

    Still, valid point it would be nice to have a bit more.

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      BargainKen on 04/08/2022 - 16:21

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      It suggests to me they're using lower quality NAND perhaps? Or they're just being conservative on the estimates

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        netsurfer on 04/08/2022 - 17:54

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        The TBW is more about the spare cells. Higher TBW doesn't mean the cell is better. For SSDs, unlike HDDs, unusable cell blocks / bad cell blocks are okay (according to the manufacturer) until the SSD used up too many of the spare cells. I have a Sandisk (now WD) SSD which has re-allocated cells for years and more cells being re-allocated. Nowhere close to the TBW, but that SSD does get fill up to 85%.

        My most recent NVMe SSD which went dead had less than 4TBW (and that was a 1TB SSD, the rated TBW is 720TBW). The SSD was never filled over 50%. I had a Samsung SSD which died with less than 2TBW. Frankly, I find the TBW mostly marketing BS. If you take that figure too seriously and don't do backup regularly, you will lose data.

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    netsurfer on 04/08/2022 - 17:49

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    This had something to do with Samsung. When MX500 was introduced, its main competition was 850 EVO at the time, and 850 EVO 2TB had 300TBW. It was actually MX500 that Samsung had to introduce 860 EVO and raised the TBW to match.

    Since then, manufacturers had been adding more spare cells. However, it is not really for the TBW, it is more due to the use of more aggressive dynamic SLC cache so that more spare cells had to be provided. It's true 870 EVO has raised the bar, but MX500 was released much earlier.

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  [Deactivated] on 04/08/2022 - 22:56

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  I got this for $424 on Prime Day just gone. Just FYI.

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  zztrader on 08/08/2022 - 15:03

  Just bought one from Umart, $7 added for delivery so $456 all up.:)

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  zztrader on 10/08/2022 - 10:39

  This drive just arrived by post today. Will install it later. Whilst in my account on the Umart site, I just noticed that you cannot change your email or the Suburb where you are and in order to change the email, you must create a new Account. This is a bit odd though for security I can see why yet if I am going to move in to a different suburb I have to jump through hoops to get that done.

  Also, what happens to all our previous orders or purchases for warranty and stuff if we change emails by creating a new account, do the previous orders carry over to the new contact or email?