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

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To represent a large file usage scenario, we are copying a 5GB ISO image to a different folder on the same drive. Conclusion When it comes to small business and home lab IT decisions, sometimes thinking outside the box helps to create cost-effective and high-performance solutions. Crucial just released the new 4TB capacity of the long-standing MX500 SATA SSD, which may just be a perfect price and performance mix for a low-cost all-flash storage setup. We installed eight of these SSDs in one of our Dell EMC R740xd servers and measured performance using hardware RAID and Windows Storage Spaces. Needing additional storage space is an issue that many people will find themselves running into eventually, particularly if you're a heavy PC user and are often creating, saving, and transferring files. Whether it be games or work-related documents, having larger storage capacity is something worth investing into and sales like the one available right now are arguably the best times to make that call. The MX500 500GB SSD has a write endurance of 180TB (TBW) which is almost half of what the 870 EVO 500GB can offer (300TB TBW).

Over the past decade, the SSD technology featured in flash drives like the Crucial MX500 2.5 has gotten significantly cheaper and more widely accepted by the average user thanks to their incredible speed over the ancient hard drives. The speeds are increasing too, which in return helps the adoption of the tech even more and with its performance gains, the MX500 has become a good option for mainstream laptop and PC builds that accept 2.5-inch drives. The only caveat is the SATA connection instead of the faster PCI Express. Solid-State, Solid Performer The Crucial MX500 with 4 TB is visually as well as technically very reminiscent of the models already released in 2017 or their new edition. Crucial promises sequential transfer speeds of up to 560 MB/s read or 510 MB/s write and relies on the Silicon Motion SM2259H controller, a 3D TLC NAND from its own production as well as a 512 MB DRAM cache for this. The warranty period is up to 5 years, which is limited as usual for SSDs and ends here after one written petabyte, if this time comes earlier. Crucial's MX500 SSDs make use of the Silicon Motion SM2258 controller which comes with support for Opal/TCG encryption which you can use toWe 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.

Samsung’s 870 EVO delivers much more consistent write performance than the WD Red SA500 and puts the company’s 870 QVO to shame in sustained write workload performance. Power Consumption and Temperature 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. We must admit that we are surprised that the MX500 4TB is being called a MX500… and not a MX600. Typically, when a ‘series’ gets a new controller with (slightly) better performance specifications… it gets a new model name. That however did not happen when Crucial refreshed the 1TB (fairly) recently so it is not that surprising. With that said when a Solid State Drive not only gets a new controller, new amount of RAM, but also new NAND… well… call us crazy but we expect it to get a new model.Once again, we are using the AS-SSD software to measure sequential read and write speed of each drive. IOMeter 4KB Benchmark