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Review on πŸ’Ύ Crucial BX500 1TB 3D NAND SATA - High Speed Internal SSD 540MB/s by Hector Watkins

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Wow! So far so good

This is a very unscientific review with comparisons that may not be helpful to most people, but in short it definitely seems value for money be. I bought this 2TB Crucial BX500 to replace a 1TB Samsung 850 EVO on an old 2007 MacBook. It's not the best use of money and I would advise against it for ordinary people. I just really like this computer and I double boot the old Mac OS for certain programs I use as well as Linux and I just wanted to have plenty of storage for each OS as they contain some music/video libraries. However. I was concerned that the Crucial would be noticeably slower than the Samsung because it's so cheap. It boots just as fast on macOS (about 12 seconds) and Linux (I suspect it's about the same on Linux as the boot process is a bit different and I switched from Mint 19.2 to Mint 20 during this update so I don't have it done comparing apples to apples). Admittedly, data cloning was pretty slow. Cloning 400GB of data took about 2 hours on Samsung compared to about 4 hours on Crucial via USB 2.0. I probably won't have to do this clone again, so I don't care, but it's worth mentioning. If I'm not mistaken, Samsung has more cache, which speeds up transfer speeds for the first 100GB or so, and Crucial, which is cheaper, has less cache and only the first 50GB or so gets faster transfer speeds. Other than that, I haven't noticed any other speed differences on the tasks I use it for: web browsing, viewing and saving photos, music, videos. If you really just need storage capacity, more performance than HDD, higher reliability than HDD (Knock Wood) and don't want the fastest, this is the safe way. The Samsung is still great and I will be giving it to my dad for his 2012 MacBook Pro so hopefully he can use it for another year or two.

Pros
  • Easy to read control panel
Cons
  • I vaguely remember

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