Review: Crucial MX 500 1TB SSD
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waltc3
Agonist
Loophole35
Agonist
RedSquirrel
Have their been any real-world performance boosts regarding ssds for gamers since...2010?
The move from atrociously slow spinning disks to any crappy old ssd is 95% of the upgrade imho...3 GB/sec speeds from nvme, etc...where does that even factor in with 'enthusiast' PC gamer usage? Storage speeds took such a massive leap it would be as if CPUs went from 3Ghz to 1 Terahertz overnight.
You only really upgrade SSD to get more room, for me 80->120->250->500+, so capacity improvements are far more welcome than speed. I just hope these drives are robust enough at the voltage/cell level to not wipe themselves - they are really pushing bit density!
Dragonstongue
I wish my MX500 1TB would "peak" at 50c but I have had mine hit 68c under heavy usage (installing/removing games etc for a period of an hour or 2, moving stuff from old SSD to this one) in a Fractal Define C, I have rearranged fans, suspended the drive, moved directly into airflow with another fan pushing air UP underneath the drive and for whatever reason it seems to always want to "idle" at a minimum of about 33c, the other 2 (MX100 256gb and MX200 500gb) would idle in the same case (worse spot actually directly behind cpu) they would idle at 26-30c and under heavy load peak at only 40c max...not sure what they did or did not do with this drive but am nor overly impressed by its temperatures, however I quite enjoy the speed difference compared to the MX200 (snappier after I disabled the AAM/APM (through crystal disk mark) and seems roughly about the same speed as the MX100 is AND quadruple the capacity (pretty much)
I do not know if it is because they used a very thin thermal pad so it does not transfer its heat to the enclosure as well as it should or they used too thick of one? with a "limit" of 70c and is supposed to "throttle" itself before any damage is done, it seems if it were loading extra heavy or whatever I would be relying on the safety features to kick in otherwise the drive might suicide itself O.o
I am almost 1/2 tempted to take the drive apart and give a coat of some MX4 or something to better help its temperatures or add some ram sinks to the outside of the case to increase its surface area ^.^