Review: Toshiba RC500 500GB NVMe M.2 SSD - Value at 10 Cents per GB

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 11/28/2019 03:43 PM | source: | 26 comment(s)

We review probably the last Toshiba SSD ever, don't worry, merely a name change is inbound (Kioxia). None the less, meet the Toshiba RC500 fabbed under the OCZ label. A value proposition at NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4 performance in that 2 GB/sec range. The prices? How does this sound: 500GB for 59 EUR / 49 USD. Yeah, these are BiCS 96-layer alright.

Read the review here.

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0blivious
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#5735838 Posted on: 11/28/2019 04:52 PM

Looks like a solid upgrade for a laptop or maybe a reasonably cheap OS drive. 500GB is feeling kind of limited these days.

Kloxia? Toshiba will be known as Kloxia soon? Not sure I like the sound of that.

Venix
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#5735845 Posted on: 11/28/2019 05:15 PM

Month after month the days of the hdd getting closer to end , well for home users at least witch is great !

fry178
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#5735847 Posted on: 11/28/2019 05:16 PM

@hh
might wanna correct that:
product is backed by a 50 year warranty

@0blivious
go with generic "samsung" clone from Inland/Microcenter.
almost twice as fast, and goes up to 2TB.

@Venix
or not.
i will always keep one, just to use as a 2nd backup in a secure location
(fire/water/theft), just in case my ssd (backup) dies,
as they dont lose data without power (for longer periods) and can be recovered much easier.

Hilbert Hagedoorn
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#5735851 Posted on: 11/28/2019 05:31 PM

might wanna correct that:
product is backed by a 50 year warranty

Lol. yeah that'd be "5-year".

Reddoguk
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#5735866 Posted on: 11/28/2019 06:44 PM

After that review i'd be asking to show me it not throttling with a heat spreader because 81C is toasty and maybe a heat spreader wouldn't be enough to stop it from throttling in the first place.

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