Review: Crucial BX500 480 GB - Value at 18 Cents per GB?

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 09/24/2018 09:09 AM | source: | 17 comment(s)

We review the much-discussed Crucial BX500 480 GB SSD, discussed as people think this is a QLC based SSD. But is it really? The BX series is all about offering a value proposition, ergo some compromises have been made. It's still a kick-ass value product for the SATA3 range of SSDs though.

You can read the full review here.

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cocopipi
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#5588354 Posted on: 09/24/2018 09:34 AM

Is that MX500 1TB review?

Hilbert Hagedoorn
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#5588358 Posted on: 09/24/2018 09:53 AM

Ah, the wrong SSD got tagged wowzers. Apologies, fixing.

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#5588378 Posted on: 09/24/2018 10:33 AM

wow! I just checked over geizhals.eu for the prices of 480GB+ SSD's and I wasn't aware that they had fallen so much!

I mean, 480GB ssd's for €60-80 and 960-1TB for around €150ish? Not bad!

I wouldn't mind an extra 960-1TB tbh at that price!

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#5588402 Posted on: 09/24/2018 11:44 AM

Thanks for the review Hilbert.

Anyone know of a review of long term storage on SSD's ?
(Edit : I know TR or TPU or someone did a wear test, where they just wrote a lot, but i'm talking about persistant storage, maybe 2-6 months between boots, etc...)
I mean, a lot of people tend to write once, and then read many, as in most files on the disk are just going to be read, and never re-written.

I'm pretty sure Samsung does some internal copying, for wear levelling i think, and that helps retain the data, but what about other manufacturers ?

I'm looking into getting a relatively cheap, large, SSD for just storing all the Steam Games, and obviously, they are mostly going to be read often, rather than written...and would like the data to be there, and uncorrupted.

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#5588408 Posted on: 09/24/2018 11:59 AM

just storing all the Steam Games, and obviously, they are mostly going to be read often, rather than written...and would like the data to be there, and uncorrupted.

While interesting as a thesis - Why would you assume that data would get corrupted over time? There is no proof of that. Back in the day with the (I think it was) Samsung 840 there was an issue that performance degraded if you left the SSD off power for say 2-3 months. But that was a one-time thing. There is just no reason to assume your data gets corrupted, and I do assume you will power up the SSD every once in a while right?

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