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Review on Crucial BX500 480GB SATA Internal SSD πŸ’Ύ with 3D NAND Technology, Up to 540MB/s - CT480BX500SSD1Z by DoYun Hwang ᠌

Revainrating 3 out of 5

Average quality, not a great product.

I took this model for experiments. Installed various linux distributions, copied large files such as VirtualBox images, games, etc. I noticed that copying starts to slow down a lot when writing a large volume to a disk. Moreover, not only copying itself slowed down, but the entire system as a whole! Began to understand. Temperatures were very unpleasantly struck, more than 75 * C and above. I bought an iron case for a 2.5 "disk and thermal pads on ali. We take the board out of the plastic case and insert it into the iron one. The temperatures dropped, I did not notice more than 36 * C. But the brakes remained. As before, after 6-7Gb of recorded data, the speed drops to the floor. Very disappointed with Curcial.

Pros
  • Relatively cheap. Normal reading speeds.
Cons
  • When writing files larger than 6-7Gb, the speed starts to drop dramatically, down to 10Mb / s. It's slower than HDD! Wildly heated, for 75 * C!