I believe it is the Amazon all-time-low for MX500 2TB SSD according to Price Camel.
Very reliable drive.
Ships and Sold by Amazon US. Personally have not had a trouble claiming warranty through for CPU I've purchased.
CamelCamelCamel.
Doh! I easily write 700tb but don't exceed 720tb!
2TB MX with DRAM and longer warranty but lower endurance
Only achievable with craptacular NAND, could be worse than the QLC NAND in the Crucial P3
Reasonably priced 2TB TLC NAND SSD drives are getting rare, get them before even Team downgrades to QLC
TEAMGROUP T-Force Vulcan Z 2.5" SATA TLC SSD - T253TZ002T0C101 2TB - $159
Read up to 550MB/s, Write up to 500MB/s, Endurance 1600TBW
TEAMGROUP T-Force Vulcan Z
No DRAM = crap performance.
@Phoebus: Reliability over performance
SK Hynix 128L TLC vs Micron 196L xLC
There will be further shrinkflation on the MX line and Micron/Crucial are on a downward spiral
@Look Up: One OZBer feels that the person who first came up with the data to form this table does not have sufficient evidence on 2TB and 4TB now have QLC variants. The person who compiled the table indicated his friend has the QLC version, but that's not good enough for the OZBer because no real performance data nor proof was provided. I mention that here because if I don't, I will probably get flamed.
| 250 GB | 500 GB | 1 TB | 2 TB | 4TB | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Form Factor | SATA 2.5" | SATA 2.5" | SATA 2.5" | SATA 2.5" | SATA 2.5" | |
| Interface | AHCI | AHCI | AHCI | AHCI | AHCI | |
| Controller | Var 1: | Silicon Motion SM2258 | Silicon Motion SM2258 | Silicon Motion SM2258 | Silicon Motion SM2258 | Silicon Motion SM2258 |
| Var 2: | Silicon Motion SM2259 | Silicon Motion SM2259 | Silicon Motion SM2259 | Silicon Motion SM2259 | Silicon Motion SM2259 | |
| DRAM/HMB | Var 1: | 256MB DDR3/DDR3L | 512MB DDR3/DDR3L | 1GB DDR3/DDR3L | 2GB DDR3/DDR3L | 512MB DDR3/DDR3L |
| Var 2: | 512MB DDR3/DDR3L | 512MB DDR3/DDR3L | ||||
| NAND | Var 1: | Micron TLC 64-layer B16A 256Gb | Micron TLC 64-layer B16A 256Gb | Micron TLC 64-layer B16A 256Gb | Micron TLC 64-layer B17A 512Gb | Micron TLC 64-layer B17A 512Gb |
| Var 2: | Micron TLC 64-layer B17A 512Gb | Micron TLC 64-layer B17A 512Gb | Micron TLC 64-layer B17A 512Gb | Micron TLC 96-layer B27B 512Gb | Micron TLC 96-layer B27B 512Gb | |
| Var 3: | Micron TLC 96-layer B27A 512Gb | Micron TLC 96-layer B27A 512Gb | Micron TLC 96-layer B27A 512Gb | Micron TLC 128-layer B37R 512Gb | Micron TLC 128-layer B37R 512Gb | |
| Var 4: | Micron TLC 96-layer B27B 512Gb | Micron TLC 96-layer B27B 512Gb | Micron TLC 96-layer B27B 512Gb | Micron TLC 176-layer B47R 512Gb | Micron TLC 176-layer B47R 512Gb | |
| Var 5: | Micron TLC 128-layer B37R 512Gb | Micron TLC 128-layer B37R 512Gb | Micron TLC 128-layer B37R 512Gb | Micron QLC 64-layer N18A 1Tb | Micron QLC 64-layer N18A 1Tb | |
| Var 6: | Micron TLC 176-layer B47R 512Gb | Micron TLC 176-layer B47R 512Gb | Micron TLC 176-layer B47R 512Gb | Micron QLC 96-layer N28A 1Tb | Micron QLC 96-layer N28A 1Tb | |
| Sequential Read (up to) | [MBps] | 560 | 560 | 560 | 560 | 560 |
| Sequential Write (up to) | [MBps] | 510 | 510 | 510 | 510 | 520 |
| Random Read (up to) | [IOPs] | 95000 | 95000 | 95000 | 95000 | 95000 |
| Random Write (up to) | [IOPs] | 90000 | 90000 | 90000 | 90000 | 90000 |
| Cryptography | 256bit AES, TCG Opal 2.0 | 256bit AES, TCG Opal 2.0 | 256bit AES, TCG Opal 2.0 | 256bit AES, TCG Opal 2.0 | 256bit AES, TCG Opal 2.0 | |
| Durability (TBW) | [TB] | 100 | 180 | 360 | 700 | 1000 |
| MTBF | [million hours] | 1.8 | 1.8 | 1.8 | 1.8 | 1.8 |
| Part Number | CT250MX500SSD1 | CT500MX500SSD1 | CT1000MX500SSD1 | CT2000MX500SSD1 | CT4000MX500SSD1 | |
| Warranty | [years] | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
@netsurfer: I bought two 4TB Crucial MX 500 on Friday from Centre Com Clayton. and this is what I got. I used the SMI flash ID tool thingy from another thread to find the specs.
If you want real world performance. I have Flashpoint 11 Ultimate as a transfer benchmark from my other two 2TB Crucial SSDs. I only have the uncompressed copy as the compressed zip file decided to corrupt itself. Or whatever file you want me to tourture my drives with. I'll get around it on Labour Day with Nvidia Shadowplay recording the entire transfer for the pendantics out there if screenshots aren't enough.The two 2TB MX500s that were bought a couple of years ago at the same shop.
@MrChumps: Thanks for the info, a few questions:
176L TLC is the best version to get. As for QLC, Crucial does seem to leave that door open with lower than expected TBW for 2TB and 4TB (and one can't help to feel that's future planning for QLC variants). Anyway, good to know local retailers have the good version.
I just googled "smi flash ID utility" and grabbed from the first link of google search. Same link as the other guy XZT posted a couple of months ago on another deal.
It was the cheapest by a dollar compared to the other retailers and was not part of the promo of the Clayton Warehouse Sale at the time which I was there for. There was nothing that piqued my interest other than a compressed can of air at the time. I shoulda posted the Crucial MX500 4TB SSD from Centre Com as a deal but you can have the internet points and I proceed to get ridducled for not posting it.
It should as the lowest seem speeds I have seen from my Crucial MX500 4TB is 200ish MB/s compared to a QLC drive. The only QLC drive I have experiennced was a Samsung QVO 1TB drive. Once that cache or whatever filled up of the QVO drive it dropped down to 80 MB/s which it got replaced by a MX500 4TB. Take this as a grain of salt as I did not get any screenshots of it since my PC was having issues when I installed my Crucial MX 500 4TB drives which turned out to be a bad SATA cable.
I am currently recompressing Flashpoint Ultimate 11.1 as a big fat single file.
Wait til Labour Day or the weekends when I have more time its going to be an overnighter thing if I'm going to transfer files of that size with SATA SSDs.I'll probably post it in the tech forums of Ozbargain instead of this deal.
@MrChumps: Thanks for the info. So you are posting real life usage TLC and QLC speed, rather than the more common "controlled" environment benchmark test like speed. It's good to get those real life figures, rather than best case figures which aren't really that useful.
Centre Com, I only got the $10 WD Green 240GB SATA SSD as a toy. All the bargain items are pretty much gone by the time I was there.
Entire MX line except the 4TB model is now suspect
Not following this saga.
What about 4Tb models?
Thanks OP, bought one to replace my aging 1TB HDD game drive.
When I am king companies that swap out components with lower-spec ones while keeping the same model name will be first against the wall
Swapping out components is fine as long as it's properly disclosed, which pretty much never happens. Reputable reviewers and independent test labs are the only ones holding these companies to account.
Still misleading if it's got the same name imo.
A new name and sku to distinguish would be the most honest approach
Although I wouldn't mind "now made with worse components" sticker on the box just for laughs
Well shirt! I put a new 1TB drive in my nephew's PC last year telling him it's the best drive based on price, quality and performance. Ah well, at least it should be under warranty if it dies early.
I mean it probably was at the time
Entire MX line except the 4TB model is now suspect2TB DRAM-less BX500 has a higher endurance rating than this supposedly higher spec with-DRAM MX500CT2000BX500SSD1 - BX500 2TBSSD Endurance (TBW) : 720TBWarranty : Limited 3-yearCT2000MX500SSD1 - MX500 2TBSSD Endurance (TBW) : 700TBWarranty : Limited 5-year