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Crucial MX300 525GB 3D NAND SATA 2.5 Inch Internal SSD - $107.87

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Jan 20, 2012
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Holy ****. I can’t wait till Christmas comes. These are going to be dirt cheap then at the rate they’re dropping in price!
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silja wrote: interesting, however did a search, looks higher end MX500 500GB is NOT on sale for $116, MX500 has 5 years warranty, comparing BX300 has 3 years, plus 20GB difference, MX500 will worth extra $12.
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0784SLQM6/ref ... 21230&sr=3
Sorry, just noticed it is MX300, not BX300, $8 difference for a little faster and less capacity(25GB).
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bought this back in November 28 2016 for $112.99 along with a Crucial MX300 750gb for $134.99
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So this is how Black Friday is looking to break down.

Samsung 970 Pro 512gb @ $220 - $250
- P/V Editing
- VMs
- AAA Games
- Applications

Micron 2TB @ $300 or less
- Media (Video, Audio, 'Pictures', etc.)
- Lower Tier Games
- Miscellaneous Archives

Instead of the yawner SSD + HDD combos we've seen for years, it's going to be NVMe SSD boot + SATA SSD storage becoming all the rage. This will relegate HDDs to the third tier ultra-large storage solution (4 to 16 TBs).

This is part speculation and part inspiration. There's little excuse to skip the 970 Pro if you're building a gaming monster, you won't need anything better, and you won't want to cheap out on anything worse.
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Jul 8, 2008
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BX300 is MLC while MX300 being TLC.
MLC is more durable than TLC. The warranty probably is just marketing scheme.
BX300 with similar capacity at similar price would be a better deal than MX300.
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there are BX500 & MX500 for similar price now
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To help everyone quickly sort out the various Crucial SSD models, here is the rank on perceived performance and reliability:

MX500 > BX300 > MX300 > BX500
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RCYK wrote: MX500 > BX300 > MX300 > BX500
Wrong, the BX300 has the exact same chipset as the MX500 (both use the Silicon Motion SM2258), but has far superior 3D MLC to the low-end 3D TLC of the MX500. It's physics (Chipset A + 3D MLC > Chipset A + 3D TLC), the MX300 will last longer and is faster overall than the MX500. The TBW are exactly the same, which makes the 3 vs 5 year warranty comparison useless, as it's limited by the TBW.

Unfortunately, a lot of pro reviews do not pit the lower-end MX500 against higher-end MLC drives, and instead use TLC as their basis so as not to show them in a bad light, but a few offer up BX300 comparison results. Of these, the write speeds and write latencies (naturally) are much better on the MLC-based BX300 compared to the TLC-based MX500. Read speeds will be virtually the same across most SATA SSDs (most can exceed the SATA spec) and it's the write speeds that differentiate models.

Everything else is just marketing, and as Anand stated, if Crucial actually had a true TBW and warranty in line with the BX300, no one would buy any other model.
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JackWhyte wrote: Wrong, the BX300 has the exact same chipset as the MX500 (both use the Silicon Motion SM2258), but has far superior 3D MLC to the low-end 3D TLC of the MX500. It's physics (Chipset A + 3D MLC > Chipset A + 3D TLC), the MX300 will last longer and is faster overall than the MX500. The TBW are exactly the same, which makes the 3 vs 5 year warranty comparison useless, as it's limited by the TBW.

Unfortunately, a lot of pro reviews do not pit the lower-end MX500 against higher-end MLC drives, and instead use TLC as their basis so as not to show them in a bad light, but a few offer up BX300 comparison results. Of these, the write speeds and write latencies (naturally) are much better on the MLC-based BX300 compared to the TLC-based MX500. Read speeds will be virtually the same across most SATA SSDs (most can exceed the SATA spec) and it's the write speeds that differentiate models.

Everything else is just marketing, and as Anand stated, if Crucial actually had a true TBW and warranty in line with the BX300, no one would buy any other model.

Why do you say "the MX300 will last longer (...) than the MX500"?

The 3 vs 5 years warranty comparison is not useless if your controller, the DRAM, a capacitor or some other electronic component of the SSD dies in year #4.

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