Reddit reviews Crucial MX500 2TB 3D NAND SATA 2.5 Inch Internal SSD, up to 560MB/s - CT2000MX500SSD1(Z)

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MX500 2TB is the same price and uses TLC instead of QLC. Not really a deal.

https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Crucial-MX500-CT2000MX500SSD1-Internal-NAND/dp/B078C515QL

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Crucial MX500 2TB 3D NAND SATA SSD $183+tax

Maybe/probably price error

https://www.amazon.ca/Crucial-MX500-NAND-SATA-Internal/dp/B078C515QL/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=mx500&qid=1563299419&s=gateway&smid=A3DWYIK6Y9EEQB&sr=8-1

Says $242, but add to cart and continue to check out and it'll drop to $183.

The 2TB version is £209.98 on amazon right now:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B078C515QL

Crucial MX500 2TB 3D NAND SATA 2.5 Inch Internal SSD - CT2000MX500SSD1(Z) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078C515QL/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_0JglDb586258J

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It's 229€ on amazon.es
Crucial MX500 2 TB

It's a further 8€ cheaper on amazon.es - https://www.amazon.es/dp/B078C515QL.

Crucial MX500 2TB SSD for $241

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Says "Starts for Prime members at 3:00am"

I guess that means 3 am on the 16th.

Your link is broken.

https://www.amazon.ca/Crucial-MX500-NAND-SATA-Internal/dp/B078C515QL

> Crucial mx500

Ordered; https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B078C515QL/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1 . Thank you, GhostBond and Burgergold. Much appreciated!

Get a second one and use raid/zfs to make it redundant!

PS, hdd storage is very energy inefficient and slow! Highly recommend SSD, example: https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-MX500-NAND-SATA-Internal/dp/B078C515QL/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1521493739&sr=8-3&keywords=ssd+2tb It's only 2tb, but with raid you can merge as many together as you want, almost no waste heat energy and will likely last forever as it has no moving parts! Still use raid though, not likely to fail just means it will fail just when you reallllly need it :)

No because it's not intended for frequent and fast writes.


Buy this and put this in it for a few extra big games or a decent amount of smaller ones or if you want a ton of games you could do this in it or find a middle ground. At the very damn least use a 7200rpm HDD.

This is the wrong take, OP didn't ask for best bang for the buck PC, he asked for the best PC.

Cooler: Air is usually cooler and quieter than AIOs, in your machine you want the noctua nh-d15 though.

Your memory is not the best it can be for Ryzen (you want 3200c14 or 3600c16). Remember you have 4 DIMM slots, you can go 4x8 if you want, but I don't think they are cheaper than the 2x16 kits.

3600c16

or

3200c14

I personally have the latter one, Samsung b-die for good overclocking potential.

Storage: Don't put mechanical in this build for the love of god. Your "boot drive" is fine w/ the 860 evo, consider the m.2 version for slight (and I mean slight) performance gains and less wires:

also consider it's bigger brother the 970 Evo

For your "data drive", get a 2tb mx500, If you buy a mechanical drive for this build you will be banned :).

The video card situation is a weird one right now. nVidia keeps the good bins of their cards and sells the rest to AIBs. If you want the best 2080ti, you want the founders edition

But nVidia has probably the worst customer service, and 3rd party cards offer better cooling. It's a decision that's up to you. I personally went with a Founders Edition card for my build (2080 Super though).

Get an 80+ platinum power supply

This is a hot take, but consider a wireless mouse. The offerings today have no lag and gaming without cable drag is fantastic. Some suggestions:
Logitech G Pro Wireless


Logitech G703

Parts list:

| Type | Item |
|----------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| CPU | Intel - Core i9-7900X 3.3GHz 10-Core Processor |
| Motherboard | MSI - X299M GAMING PRO CARBON AC Micro ATX LGA2066 Motherboard |
| Memory | G.Skill - Trident Z RGB 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory |
| Storage | Samsung - 850 EVO-Series 1TB 2.5" Solid State Drive |
| Storage | Samsung - 960 EVO 1TB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive |
| Storage | 2x Crucial MX500 2TB |
| Video Card | EVGA - GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB Founder Edition Video Card (2-Way SLI) |
| Video Card | EVGA - GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB Founder Edition Video Card (2-Way SLI) |
| Power Supply | SeaSonic - PRIME Titanium 1000W 80+ Titanium Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply |
| Cabling | Ensourced Cables |
| Operating System | Microsoft - Windows 10 Pro OEM 64-bit |
| Other | Zotac SLI Bridge, 2-wide |
| Other | Ensourced Cables |
| Other | Evolv mATX TG - with custom CNC'd Panels |
| Other | Custom Watercooling Loop |

Will try disconnecting things. This will be painful...

Do you think it is worth trying to test the power supply in isolation first, or just getting a new PSU temporarily and trying that?

That is a Crucial MX500 - This model - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B078C515QL/

For anyone still possibly following this... I also posted on /r/freenas, and did some more work. I believe I've solved my problem...

(Original Comment)

For anyone who may still be looking at this post... I believe I've solved my issue with some re-architecture...

First, I installed a small SSD (400GB) to host the 2 critical VMs (my pfSense, and my FreeNAS). Both of those have dual 64GB ZFS OS Drives).

Then, I temporarily exported the remaining VMs to "warm storage".

I re-flashed my LSI SAS 9211-8i to IT MODE, and passed it through to the FreeNAS VM, just as the other one is already.

In FreeNAS I created a MIRROR between the two existing 2TB SSDs (Crucial MX500 2TB 3D NAND), and added an additional Intel SSD (Intel SSD DC S3700 200GB) for SLOG.

Once all that was complete, I created an NFS share on the new MIRROR, and added it to VMWare.

Lastly, I re-imported the remaining 6 VMs from "warm storage", and started them all up. Everything has been running now for 24-hours without issues, and weekends are when all my automated processes kickoff, so this is a good sign.

Just bought this myself. Great price for a 2tb SSD and it's even TLC.

I'd go with the 1tb ssd.
$110 - SanDisk SSD PLUS 1TB
$115 - Crucial mx500 (I would suggest this one)
$150 - Samsung Evo

I personally chose to go with a 2tb ssd...depends on your budget and whether you think you need the space.

Looks like the Crucial mx500 2tb is down to $225 now:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078C515QL/

I wouldn't personally go back to an hdd unless I needed 4tb of storage space or more. Hate the lagginess of them...worth putting up with when it was $400 extra to get rid of, but nowadays it's $100 or less, not a huge deal.

So this one Should Work.

and how do i know if it will work

I want to upgrade to a 2tb ssd on my desktop, any recommendations? ive currently got my eyes on the

Samsung SSD 860 QVO 2TB /

Crucial MX500 CT2000MX500SSD1(Z) 2 TB /

Samsung MZ-76E2T0B/EU 2 TB 860

i would prefer using renowned names like samsung and sandisk but if you've got your personal favourite, im open to suggestions! cheers!

https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-MX500-500GB-NAND-Internal/dp/B078C515QL/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Crucial%2Bmx500&qid=1559099199&s=gateway&sr=8-1&th=1

https://www.amazon.com/ORICO-External-Drive-Enclosure-Type-C/dp/B01N48791I/ref=sr_1_23?keywords=Ssd+box+usb+c&qid=1559099296&s=gateway&sr=8-23

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This is the one I've got. Speed is slightly slower than the Samsung, but negligibly so. I cannot imagine anyone would notice any difference. It's also $70 cheaper than the Samsung and pretty well trusted. This is my suggestion.

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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078C515QL/ref=twister_B07PV7KHL3?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

Yeah I wouldn't trust a current QLC drive's long term endurance as a boot drive, but it could be great for stuff like games, programs and fast data storage. The 2TB MX500 would've been a great choice if that much was in your storage budget. You might not ever need an HDD with that much space. They're still available for a little over $200 if you want to spend that much, or a more reasonable $107 for the 1TB

Not familiar with the S11 pro but if it's the same cost as a SATA drive for an NVMe, it should be worth it too.

Yeah they were good prices, but it's probably not worth kicking yourself over not potentially saving $20-30 bucks. I'm still kicking myself for building my PC when I did a year and a half ago, when my low end GTX1060 cost $350 during the mining craze (would've been 400 for a good one if even available) and 16GB 3200MHz RAM went for $205

I've never made upgrades to a laptop before, will this Crucial MX500 2TB 3D NAND SATA 2.5 be compatible to a Razor Blade 18 Base model?

Razer says:

Can I upgrade both the SSD and HDD storage of the Razer Blade 15 (2018) Base Model?
Yes, you can upgrade the SSD or HDD of the Razer Blade 15 (2018) Base Model. •The 128GB SSD configuration comes with a SATA SSD and a 1TB (5400rpm) 2.5" SATA-III hard drive.
•The 256GB SSD configuration comes with an NVMe PCIe SSD and a 2TB (5400rpm) 2.5" SATA-III hard drive.

The m.2 slot can use either a SATA or NVMe PCIe SSD.
The other slot supports SATA-III type storage, 2.5" 7mm max thickness, either an HDD or SSD. (Max Size is 2TB).

You'll definitely want a SATA SSD as opposed to NVME. I just finished my build with this crucial drive for storing games. You can definitely get cheaper, but when buying the component that would cause me to lose all of my data in the case of a failure, I opt for getting a reputable drive. I'd suggest either crucial or samsung for that reason.

EDIT: Was just surfing r/buildapcsales and saw that there's a prime day sale on the 2TB crucial ssd https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078C515QL/

like this

you can have cheaper than that

I got a 2TB crucial MX500 239€

https://www.amazon.fr/Crucial-CT2000MX500SSD1-Interne-MX500-Pouces/dp/B078C515QL/ref=sr_1_4?__mk_fr_FR=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&keywords=mx500&qid=1554722859&s=computers&sr=1-4

and a sata to usb3 adapter 10€

https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B011M8YACM?tag=amz-mkt-chr-fr-21&ascsubtag=1ba00-01000-org00-win10-other-nomod-us000-pcomp-feature-scomp-wm-5&ref=aa_scomp

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T5 are expensive because of the enclosure which is useless