Crucial MX500 4TB 3D NAND SATA 2.5 Inch Internal SSD - Up To 560MB/s - CT4000MX500SSD1

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Another reason to go for the MX500 is its 5-year warranty period as compared to the 3-Years of the Samsung 870 QVO. We didn’t adjust over-provisioning levels, and from each RAID group, we tested a 1TB footprint of storage. Manually over-provisioning the drives before going into their respective RAID configurations would yield higher and more consistent write performance, and help with endurance long term. While the focus of this isn’t saying that consumer SSDs will replace enterprise SSDs, it is showing that you can achieve some impressive results on a smaller budget. The endurance of SSDs is fairly difficult to determine practically. The usage and environment heavily impact an SSD’s life. Nonetheless, these are the figures that are furnished by the companies. Parameter The endurance level of the 1TB variants of both SSDs is identical. The 2TB variant of the Samsung 870 QVO has more durability. So by comparing the data provided by the companies, the 870 QVO comes out to be on top.

The SSD industry has been in a race to the bottom of the barrel, but due to the NAND shortage, we've often been given the bottom without the price drops to match. Micron's new 64-layer NAND, which makes its way into the Crucial MX500, promises to tip the scales in the other direction with competitive performance and superior pricing. A lot of system integrators and SMBs on a budget still prefer to use hard drives. HDDs are pretty reliable, have high capacity, and have a low cost per TB. Hard drives have been around for years but have not kept up with the advancements in computing power when it comes to performance.The 870 QVO leverages QLC NAND technology, offering substantial storage capacities up to a staggering 8TB, making it a frontrunner for heavy storage needs. On the flip side, the MX500 utilizes TLC NAND technology, which, although caps at a 2TB storage capacity, promises faster performance and greater longevity. Solid-state drives can be a cost-effective alternative to replacing older servers. While going all Gen4 NVMe might drive some incredible performance, in many environments budgets just don’t exist for that kind of overhaul. While NVMe is taking over, SATA still can provide value. A typical 7200 RPM HDD can deliver read/write speeds of between 80 to 160MB/s compared to SATA SSDs delivering read/write speeds of 200 to 550MB/s. That is a massive performance boost for an aging system. Crucial MX500 4TB May Fit the Bill but the MX500 uses Dynamic Write Acceleration (DWA) which dynamically shrinks or grows the SLC cache size depending on the amount of data stored on the flash. the 4TB model can handle up to 1000TB (TBW) which equals to about 520GB writes per day. Crucial MX500 Series I found those big TBW numbers with the 4TB and 8TB variants quite impressive with the Samsung 870 QVO. With the option to buy a large storage drive, the MX500 allows you to receive a good amount of endurance.

Price-wise, the MX500 4TB SSD is hard to beat and comes with features such as hardware encryption, dynamic write acceleration, and can also protect your data in case of a power outage. In this test, we are using IOMeter which is one of the best application for stress testing the random IO performance of an SSD. IOMeter is set to use 4KB file size chunks and will stress the SSD with random 4 KB files. As for endurance, the Crucial MX500 250GB model is rated for 100TB (TBW) which translates to about 54GB daily writes for 5 years.The 2TB model on the other hand can endure up to 700TB (TBW) which equals to about 383GB writes per day for 5 years while To make sure these drives perform at their maximum performance, we will be disabling all the power saving features in the BIOS (C6-state, etc). The testing was done on a fresh install of Windows 10 64-bit with the latest windows updates installed. We disabled a bunch of unnecessary services such as drive indexing, Prefetch, Superfetch, Defrag and removed all the bloatware from Windows 10 to make sure there were as few processes running as possible during the testing. We've tested several products with the SM2258 controller paired with various types of NAND, but they weren't that impressive. We've also tested Micron's first-gen 32-layer 3D NAND paired with several different controllers over the last year, but it was very difficult to recommend any of the SSDs. The same controllers often deliver better performance with Toshiba flash. Micron's new 64-layer 3D NAND is the key component that should improve the picture on both fronts. Crucial's MX500 SSDs make use of the Silicon Motion SM2258 controller which comes with support for Opal/TCG encryption which you can use to Looking at average read latency in our budget all-flash setup, across the board we had very low latency. We had sub-2ms latency in almost all areas, with SW RAID coming un below 1ms in a few areas. Write latency in RAID5 are the areas that stand out, with hardware RAID measuring in at just under 23ms and storage spaces with a hefty 503ms.

which dynamically adjusts storage component activity to help keep your system cool and minimizes the risk of damage caused by overheating. I understand that now Samsung has most of these features in their products, but I can't simply go away from a brand that I trust and have been working with their products for years now with success. The SSDs have been working perfectly, they feel pretty fast too, I love them. They still report 100% life, can't explain that. I'm a satisfied customer and can recommend crucial/micron for workstations.The Crucial MX500 will eventually come in four capacities and two form factors, but only the 1TB model will be available at launch. The 2TB model will only ship in the 2.5" form factor while the 250GB, 500GB, and 1TB models will come in both 2.5" and single-sided M.2 2280. However, there is a great application of 870 QVO which is to store a large amount of data in a single drive. There are very few 8TB drives available in the market. So, the 870 QVO sits perfectly with that requirement if you have one. To represent a large file usage scenario, we are copying a 5GB ISO image to a different folder on the same drive. Conclusion We are looking at up to 1,200TB (TBW) for the 870 EVO 2TB and 2,400TB (TBW) for the 4TB model versus 700TB (TBW) for the MX500 2TB and 1000TB (TBW) for the 4TB model. Features