Crucial MX500 Vs. Samsung 860 Evo - The Best 2.5" Sata SSD of 2018 is...?
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
- What's the best 2.5 Sata 3 SSD can buy in 2018? Well today I take a look at the two heavy weights in terms of value for money and also quality, these are the Crucial MX500 1TB and also the 860 EVO 1TB from Samsung. And the results were quite suprising ^^.
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Brian, good that you also test the 'endurance', that has been grossly neglected by many testers while it does make a lot of difference. These days the gap between SSD's is not that large anymore in general but as far as I know the Intel SSD's - developed for server loads - still have huge dips for reading for longer filesizes (like gaming). It has been known for some time, Crucial offers more value/$, realistically speaking. With $40 price difference I would chose the Crucial, especially given that the read speeds are very close. With $4 price difference I would probably choose the Samsung.
Hey Peter, exactly the reason I started testing the very long endurance runs was that I used to use a capture program called camtasia studio, it was very drive intensive, and some ssds would clonk out after a long recording lol, so it became an important benchmark for me.
I use both of those drives. They are both excellent. They are virtually identical in performance. The Crucial SSD comes with an excellent Cloning software and an excellent Management program. As of August 2021, I strongly suggest the Crucial MX500 rather than the Samsung for one reason - the Samsung SSDs are INSANELY OVERPRICED at this point! I bought a Samsung 860 SATA III for $50 in 2020, and a Samsung 970 NVMe for $50 in 2020. Now, those products are nearly TWICE as much money! It is INSANE to pay that amount of money when the Crucial product can be purchased for $59 for the SATA III version and $54 for the NMVe version.
@Michael Zoran please take a look at my reply above to video. Kind of lost on some things and maybe you can help. For the sec I am buying a Crucial 1tb ssd drive. So it comes with software to clone correct? Is the build quality good on this ssd? I guess as how long the ssd last is a toss up in days to years and so on.
@@joesphbaumgardner4579, yes, the Cloning software that comes with the Crucial SSD is excellent. The Reading speed and Writing speed of the Crucial one is virtually identical to the Samsung SSD in tests I ran.
For some reason, both the Samsung SSD and the Crucial SSD both had slightly slower boot times than the original Kingston SSD that came with the one particular laptop. It was literally only two seconds, though. It was exactly 17 Seconds for the original Kingston SSD, but between 18 Seconds and 19 Seconds for the Crucial and Samsung SSDs.
The two SSDs all last many years. You are not going to use up the SSD space unless you are a video editor doing this all the time.
Also, it is Samsung that now offers a lower level of quality, even though they still have a higher price for their SSDs. I am particularly talking about the QVO model that is indisputably a lower level of quality and indisputably an INSANELY HIGHER price.
@@michaelzoran Much thanks for the time. Also the info which helps. I am old school and quality is a big one for me. Although quality control went out the door long ago as a whole in todays world. Stats on boot time you ran is not bad. I'll give you mine on my old HP Notebook 2000 HDD drive. In a nutshell about 2 plus min lol. Course I will say my drive is a 500gb and it is in red space low about 12 gb left. Just done with the laptop and drive. So switching out to the HP Elitebook 840 G2 i7. At this time now I'll dropped a Crucial 1tb ssd in it. I see also it has a m.2 card slot which will be for another day. So when I buy the Crucial ssd it " should " come with clone software correct? A disk, or already on ssd or go to website and download type?
@@joesphbaumgardner4579 Yes. The Crucial SSD will come with Cloning Software. The m.2 input and SSD system on paper is much faster than the SATA III system. However, you simply do not notice the difference on things such as boot ups and restarts.
Think of it like this. The speed of light is much faster than the speed of sound. But, in the environment of being near another person on the planet Earth, both the speed of light and the speed of sound appear to be the same type of instantaneous speed due to the fact that the distance travelled is so relatively short.
In that same way, think of a boot up and a restart as a short distance travelled. It doesn't matter whether you have an m.2 or a SATA III SSD, because both are so fast that there is very little difference.
The type of files that you do notice a larger difference between m.2 and SATA III are the very large video files such as recordings where the files might be 30GB or 40GB that fill up an entire SDXC memory card. In that type of "long distance" environment, you would notice the faster speed of the m.2 SSD.
@@michaelzoran what is cloning software?
Imho, almost all of these SATA SSD's perform the same for daily usage. Get whichever is cheapest.
Witnaaay yes more or less, the speed difference is not noticeable enough to justify a 33% price increase for samsung. I've used both of these brands as long as adata. The adata is the "slowest" I have...but like 1 second longer boot up at most? And for tasks, barely noticeable
true. most people should only wory about the cloning software and if they dont need it then the endurance. crucial, adata, kingston, sandisk, names like this are reliable enough and have the endurance for hte average user
Some are built better and last better than others though.
So you can have two good SSD's now, but eventually one will go from good to average while the other maintains.
If you're on a tight budget then yeah go for the cheapest, but if you're not then it pays to get the one that's higher quality. Albeit in this case since Crucial's improved so much I'd probably go for it too if it were cheaper.
Witnaaay Get one SSD cheap but not the "NO BRAND" SSD, get one reliable and cheap. For example a Samsung SSD EVO or Kingston
because your data deserves the cheapest solution possible?
/smh
I've cloned 20+ hdds using Crucial ssds with Acronis and never had an issue
zly same with mwave 1tb crucial is 375 aus and the samsung is 462 for the non pro version
i treid cloning a hdd on a wd green ssd with acronis and for some reason it said that i need a crucial or wd ssd even though i had the wd green
Major problems using the Acronis software. I downloaded the Easeus ToDo software and it worked like a charm
I've had bootloader corruptions about 6 out of the 8 times I've used Acronis. Not a difficult fix since I always have a win 10 usb on hand when working on computers, but still, that's really bad. I must be pretty unlucky.
Why does no one talk about Micron 1100's they are so much cheaper than even Crucials.. is there something I don't know about.. I know they are meant for OEM's but they are basically the same company as Crucial just the non consumer side.
I've considered several SSDs for upgrading an older lappy (DELL 5420 with i3-2330m 2x2,20 Ghz) incl. Western Digital Blue and Samsung 860 EVO. In the end I opted for MX500 500GB (these days I never go for less since I like to think that the more DRAM buffer is onboard the better SSD operates). The difference compared to 250GB 5400 rpm HDD should be noticeable, esp. counting the fact that the CPU is G2 socket and can be easily swapped for a i7-2640M 2x2,8 Ghz with more L3 cache and Turbo Boost.
Now waiting for the MX500 to arrive in the mail ))
Happy user of an MX300 750GB here, upgraded to it from a Samsung 850 EVO 500GB in a new build due to the extra capacity with no real noticeable speed loss and much cheaper $/GB rating. I've been recommending Crucial SSDs for a couple of years now and that won't change a bit with the MX500 being so much cheaper than both the 850 EVO and 860 EVO.
Been very tempted to pick up an enterprise Micron 1100 2TB off Amazon though; $375 USD for 2TB of SSD storage, using similar tech to what's in the MX300 consumer SSD.
SSD heaven right now on Amazon and Newegg. I just ordered a 1TB 860 evo for $120
250€ for 2TB Crucial MX500 some days ago on Amazon ... same SSD on "MediaMarkt" (Germany) was very fast sold out for 219€.
It will be soon the regular price since 2TB and 4TB SSD's arrived.
@@_K.A.R. I bought 500GB 860 Evo for 73 euro on this black Friday, half the price I paid for 500GB 850 Evo last year. I am from Ireland btw.
Hybrid Theory good looking out. Check who the seller is always before buying. If they have no reviews or bad reviews I wouldn’t recommend buying from them
@Hybrid Theory there are some comments about something like this for the 2TB Crucial SSD on German Amazon (Edit: directly from Amazon, NOT marketplace) too ... that there were a 1TB drive in a 2TB box with 2TB Label.
As long as it is from Amazon you can still return or excahgne it ;)
You know what else gets a yes your video editing production it's just gone through the roof!
I bought a Crucial BX 100 250GB 2.5 years ago and it still holds up perfectly
You might wanna keep an eye out on the following S.M.A.R.T attribute in Crucial's Storage Executive software: 173 Average Block-Erase Count. This shouldn't go up by more then 1 or 2 a day at most!
I just last week found out that on my Crucial M4 drive something (probably chrome and the drives own garbage collection system) made this go up to 2700 which is when windows started to give me imminent drive failure warnings. and Attribute 202 has risen to 91% drive lifetime used up. All this in less then 1.5 years of drive usage (this used to be a secondary computer system that had mostly been turned of for years until my main system died halfway last year) Apparently, at least for the M4, 3000 writes is the expected maximum for a block to be erased before they start to fail. I monitored this attribute for a few days and in 1.5 days it went up to 2730. :(
Apparently browsers like Chrome and firefox cause excessive writes to drives while idle. Anywere between 10GB/day and 60GB/day depending on the number of tabs open (And I usually have 20+ tabs open in chrome with youtube video's I still wanna watch, damn recommendation lists in UA-cam ;) )
And the BX drives are rated for about 21GB/day of writes if the drive is to last for at least 5 years.
@@PhoenixNL72-DEGA- which one you recommend to me, Crucial MX500 500GB or Samsung 860 Evo 500GB?
@@sabaruengineering3843 The samsung. It has a much higher TBW (total bytes written). The Crucial has guaranteed 180TB written before it dies. The Samsung is guaranteed to 2400TB written. So it has a 15 times higher life expectancy and can handle the daily writes from Chrome, Firefox and possible you swapfile and temp folder much better/longer then the Crucial would.
"Are you in the market for a new 2 and a half inch SATA SSD?" No, but I'll still watch the video because I know it'll be good
I actually am
Looks like a great winner Crucial MX500! :)
I have been using 2 MX500s in my server in RAID 1 for a while, they're amazing SSDs for virtualization!
never thought I would see the day that the 860 evo would be $1 cheaper than the MX500, but it has finally happened
The demand of 860 is so high.
So the production cost is decrease dramatically
Its a good time to grab these.... prices are almost a hundred dollar less and Samsung Evo price is nearer to crucial. Like $8 price gap at this point
crucial is shit ssd samsung evo is better
Perfect timing! I was just going to order a new SSD to replace the hardrive in my laptop. Thanks for the good videos as always.
Just got my very first 850 Evo a few weeks ago. :3 It's lovely!
Sounds good about the MX500 - got my first one in the mail as my two month old Kingston A400 system disk gave up in the midst of an upload job hvis weekend.
Have both the mx500 and 860 evo drives and absolutely love them both.
it's quite interesting to look at the price of SSDs five years ago compared to now.
To many FENOMENAL things to say about this drives 👍 fenomenal video as always Bryan 😄
take a shot each time it's phenomenal :)
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Both drives are absolutely phenomenal heh
Just bought a 2TB MX500 for $180. Seems like a pretty nice price point! Under $0.10 per GB.
still working?
For cloning, I simply remove the old source drive and clone it to the new SSD within a desktop using Macrium....(no issues of cloning within an active Windows installation)
and with MX500 being $100 for 1 TB vs. (normally) ~$160 for the EVO, i go for the MX500 (I see some sale prices currently, however, so, would certainly choose the Samsung at equal or only $5 more levels of pricing...)
The Mx500 price for performance is the best. Great review again 🖒
I came to same conclusion couple of years ago when I was thinking Samsung 840 EVO vs MX300 vs SanDisk X400. Ended up with the later simply due to the price.
Today, I'd probably choose between MX500 and WD Blue (former SanDisk) as they are so similar in everything.
MX500 1Tb $90 cheaper at PLE Computers for those in Aus.
it's $105 cheaper in The Netherlands, so buying the Samsung is quite stupid.
now its almost the same price, maybe 20 dollars cheaper
In Germany is € 180,24 >
@@ThijsVanDalen Micron 1100 my dudes.. Thank me later
Thanks for guiding me to buy SSD for my laptop, I was confused whether to buy Crucial MX500 but now I am pretty clear that I will go for MX500 as it is "cheaper" in India too by AUD 30 (INR 1550) as compared to Samsung EVO 860. Also, the performance of both of them are nearly the same.
Thanks again! Cheers!
Using hdd is absolute hell I have a mx500 coming soon hopefully it’s way better
It's phenomenal! I replaced old timer with the mx 500 and my laptop boots from 5 min to just 15 sec...I can never go back, it spoiled me too much lol
@@aadeshsenthilkumar still working?
@@gtf2584 yeah but i got a new laptop for college now.
@@aadeshsenthilkumar how does it perform under heavy load
Just got mx500, looked all day for measurements on what the HDD Bay would hold in my laptop, and crucial came through with the information I needed so I ordered a 2TB on the spot, and going by your results it seems it was a good buy.
It is an amazing drive. Just put a 2TB in my xbox one.
I'll go with Crucial. Really helpful review, it made me remember that I only trust Samsung with TVs, I prefer companies that don't try to go to broad.
For phones and computers Apple, tools Craftsman, speakers JBL.
lol samsung provide the ssd storage to apple. Storage, screen and some smaller board component in a iphone is from samsung.
Amazing, the 1TB Crucial MX500 in 2018 as shown on Amazon in this video was $259.99 so a 2TB of the same had to be just less than double near $520.00. I've finally stepped it up into the SSD today with my first buy for a 2TB Crucial MX500 at an unbelievable $174.00. Probably due to mass production (supply & demand) more in supply, so lowered cost. It's insane that we have gone from HDD to SSD (computers) within computers and the tech is moving faster by the weeks it appears.
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The demand has shifted into Nvme.
So sata drive bcome less expensive bcus more supply
Just got an MX500 500GB. I replaced my two-year-old Samsung 750 EVO 250GB which had high temperature and extreme slowdown problem ever since I got it. After about 1 minute of copying at 150-200 MB from a hard drive it slows down to ~20MB per sec and cripples the system too. I have no such problem with the MX500 so far, though temperature goes above 50 celsius here too, but there is no serious slowdown. Relating to temperature I do not have a dedicated cooler, but the front intake is next to the SSD, so it should get enough airflow. All in all I am having a mixed experiences so far with SSDs, though I am quite sure that the Samsung drive is faulty in some way, maybe sensor-wise.
Excellent review.I was going to go with the Samsung QVO 2tb but i am going with the Crucial mx500. especially with sustained writes. The samsung drops off after seeing your review 100gb with no drop offs. Thanks for this review
Still happy with my 840 PRO, I don't see a reason to upgrade in the real world
opposed to what ? upgrading in Narnia ?
still rocking my 830 evo
that pro shit is long lasting....really long lasting..
the samsung Pro SSDs still use MLC so take quite a punishing before they fail, every test has shown they will work flawlessly until they suddenly fail, but we are talking over 1PB of data (850 pro and higher over 2-3PB of data) witch no normal person would od unless your using them in a server or client for video editing large sets, TLC drives seem to start having issues around 500-900GB of written data (assuming around 250GB SSDs,Writen data can be much higher if the SSD is larger)
In terms of daily use or even heavy workstation flows?
The Samsung 860 Pro drive is missing. With low use there is no reason to have the Pro, however, when the cache fills up on the other drives performance drops greatly and that is the only reason I purchased an 850 Pro when I rebuilt my computer a year ago.
Realistically, you should go for a 960 Pro over a 860 Pro, as the pricing of the 860 gets wayyy to close to NVME territory.
I purchased an 850 Pro because I did not have the money for NVMe a year ago.
The pro drive is in a totally different price category and normally 75% more on top of these drives.
Got my 1TB 850 evo for $230 in 2016. Feeling good about it :)
Great video! Finally someone providing much needed comparison in the right way!
WooooW man
I really was confused which one to get from these two .
Big thaaaaaanks ❤️
man... im watching this December 28 2018 and the 1TB crucial sells for 120$ and the Samsung 860 EVO 1TB sells for 155 prices have dropped big time! I am ordering the Crucial 1TB now thanks for the vid
Good to know. I always have held Samsung's SSDs as the king, but clearly Crucial's just fine too. I think I wanna get myself a 500gb, they're pretty cheap now in Canada. 500gb MX500 for 165$, not bad at all :o
no it's very bad , what's wrong with this price ? 😂😂😂😂
@@magedsobhy7351 that was 3 yrs ago, now mx 500 500gb is $55-60 and 840 evo is $80
thx, cause of you im gonna buy the crucial! thx
I installed an SSD for the first time. It was in an old work computer, an Acer X480G. I used Samsung 860 Evo. Unfortunately the Samsung Data Migration software didn't create a successful bootable drive. Ultimately I needed to use Clonezilla bootable usb to do the clone.
At 1:57 you said "860 Pro", I think you meant 860 Evo. Thank you for another good video.
You forgot to mention about endurance 860 EVO 1TB is 600TB write. MX 500 1TB is 360TB write
check at 6:20
I went with the MX500, I'm using it for external storage for my Series S.
Crazy how much price has come down now, I paid £30 for 500GB
My samsung EvO 860 failed after 3 years... Normal use.. I have a 5 year old 120gb Sandisk SSD which is still running perfect..
TBH the Samsung has left a bad taste for me...
Sir what happened?
Is it died suddenly or bad sector??
860 EVO 500GB, 24x7, almost 50,000 hours (5.7 years), no issue in SMART.
Been there since the first SSD's came out... Was a choice between Samsung and Crucial for me at that time. Was going for Samsung as it was a bit faster (did a lot of benchmarking back then) BUT then they suffered from data loss after a firmware upgrade so eventually went Crucial. Never went back. But any of these 2 will be my recommandation as well... Just grab the cheapest, which most of the time will be Crucial
I can confirm the same speeds on my half full mx500 500GB it's a very nice ssd and my first ssd i have it since last summer and it's doing great, not problems and incredibly fast, win 10 boot in 8 seconds
MX500 is the ultimate gamer's SSD. By far the best balance of price, capacity and performance.
thats your opinion cruical is shit samsung is better
I use the free AOMEI cloning software on mechanical and SSD's. It so simple, it's free and seems to work on every drive I have ever tried on it. It does have a little quirk. Sometimes it changes the 2nd and 3rd partition letters around but I just change them back in drive management. It doesn't affect the system drive or the reserved partition. The price of the MX500 has plummeted. I picked one up this week for £75! I am deleted with its performance.
Now at the end of 2020 both Crucial and Samsung SSD 500 GB are about the same price on Amazon, C$90, myself I got Crucial. Such a big difference compared with HDD. Acronis cloning software worked like a charm. Remember for you guys wanting to clone laptops HDD, you will need an USB to SATA cable wich is not included in any of these brands packages.
6:22 - TBW for the MX500 is 360TB - not 300TB. That's quite a big difference.
Great explanations of the old and new flash and the comparisons
My mx300 1tb is working great love it. Had it for a year.
The MX500 seems like the better purchase. Quick question, *For Adobe Premiere Pro Video Editing* I'm looking to add two SSD's to my editing machine so I can improve the read and writes performance. I currently have a 1TB Samsung 850 Pro for the OS and Apps installed. I'm probably going to get a 1TB drive for the project files. For the media cache and database aspect, should I get a 1TB or a 500gb ssd drive or can I go as low as 250gb's? I'm thinking 500gb since the cache will be deleted but I'm wondering will there be a performance difference between the drives. Note, I record videos in either 1080p or 4k. Thanks for the video and any advice you might have.
dude I'd love a M.2 version of this video!
Crucial any day a friend of mine has had 2 Samsung evo's fail. I on the other had have had the same 64GB crucial since 2011
Lol do you still use a fricking 64gb hdd? ex dee
Duffimus Prime thats because you can only fit and run MS-DOS and Oregon Trail on it.
IF ACRONIS FAILED JUST USE ANOTHER Free software like Partition Wizard👍
The problem with numbers on paper, is they don't really tell the whole story. For example if you put a lower end sata SSD against a high end M.2 SSD, it's on paper numbers will blow it out of the water by 5 times +, which is about the same difference between a fast mechanical hard drive and a standard sata SSD. However real world the load times between a mechanical hard drive and a sata SSD are night and day different, where as the real world difference between a sata SSD and M.2 are practically negligible. There is also preformance as the drive becomes full to consider.
There was so much info in this video. Such an awesome video. Thanks..
Nice video Brian! Thanks for sharing it with us.😎👍JP
What makes the Samsung one 40 bucks more expensive above the Crucial one?
@Michael Adel I found that over time the Samsung one might be able to keep up working better than the Crucial one. The TBW (total bytes written) has a value of 600TB for the Samsung and 360TB for the Crucial, which bassically means that the Samsung one should last longer for whatever work you might be doing on it. (Source is a Dutch website called Tweakers)
How about the longevity? Thats the most important, speed is all the same.
They both have 5 years warranty, if that can help.
Notsheep79 Warranty is not an option to other places.
860 EVO Up to 2,400 TBW, MX500 Up to 700 TBW and 860 PRO Up to 4,800 TBW all 3 of these come with 5 years warranty
I ordered the Crucial MX500 2TB because of good reviews like in this video. However, while I've been waiting for it to arrive I've been reading 1 star Amazon reviews describing failures after 3 months.. now I'm worried.
@@DerekMoore82 so whats up?
most important factor : ssd endurance (TBW): mx500 1tb = 360TB , 860 evo 1tb = 600TB
Realizing this video was published not quite one year ago... in that period of time one can now purchase the Samsung 2TB for $299, or the Crucial 2TB for $289 (Amazon and other sources).
At the time of this video, a $40 difference might be a profit-point for a builder, or a major issue for someone short of cash. But not so much any longer. So for the end user there are two important issues here (even when this video was made):
1) MTBF. While both have identical warranties, the Samsung has a far greater projected lifespan. I'll go with the longer-life, super-tested drive any day, especially if the difference is only $40 (or now, $10).
2) Backup software is important. The Samsung clone software is easy to use-- so if one is not a tech and gets easily confused by such software, the simpler the better.
So while these drives run neck-in-neck performance-wise, I find this video most informative in providing these two bits of information. To some people the software used or listed MTBF may not be important and they'll go for the low-dollar every time. For others though, the price may not be so important as long-term reliability.
As me pops said many years ago, "Quality is remembered long after low price is forgotten." Both of these appear to be quality drives. Will they continue to be quality drives as that 5-year warranty runs out? Dunno. That's why the MTBF figures.
Considering how close these drives are in price today, my question comes down to: "Which comes with the ready-to-go software and which has the greatest MTBF figure?" I generally root for the underdog (I have Crucial RAM in my system), but for a difference of $10, these days the price difference becomes moot and it comes down to pure specs.
The real HURT is, when the SSD crahes - and a new has to be bought, installed, made ready to run as before. That black swan is the most weight in the decision - for me. 1 week ago - a 100 GB Acronis back up .tib - was unreadable...Custer Last Stand Hill...
@@raginald7mars408 Yeah, a hard drive crash is always "panic time". Which is why I am so very glad that hard drives are dirt-cheap these days. I bought an external 2TB hard drive (platter type) just to make backups. Because no matter how good the device, there's always something that can happen. The great thing is that today's SSDs are significantly more reliable and crash far less than platter drives. And the speed... when I installed an SSD in place of my old 7500rpm platter drive, my Windows boot time went from 45 seconds to 15 seconds. I don't even notice that boot time any more, because by the time I turn on the computer and by the time I get sat down and situated, Win10 is already booted and asking my passcode. And I saw this week that MicroCenter is selling a 1TB SSD for $102. Seriously, that is just really hard to resists. (Personally, I'd go for the Samsung on sale for $129, because I'll choose quality and reliability over $27 any day. Not to mention Samsung's awesome cloning software. :D
Samsung costs more but it better to cloning or upgrade the hard drive.
I've been rocking a couple crucial SSDs for years now and I really like them. I'd rather not pay the premium for the Samsung name if the performance isn't demonstrably better.
Great video, thanks for putting in the work
Nice review I use both on my PC. Both are awesome.
Great review, has really made the choice harder as I wanted to believe the supremacy of Samsung. However when you mentioned the magician software and the fact I will be pairing it with a NVMe 970 plus in my rig I think Samsung won out. The optimisation options and ability to drill down has been useful on high end graphics processing
I have 2 Crucial drives in Raid0, served me well for the past 8 months but I do have 2 850 pros in Raid0 aswell, use the pros for the games and stuff I use the most.
Finally these are becoming affordable
Just get the 850 Evo, now that it's older, it's a lot cheaper. The only real difference between the 860 and 850 is better endurance, but both have good enough endurance for even heavy (but non-server) use. Speed is very similar too
I am soo glad I waited to buy a larger ssd. I scored 2 factory sealed 860 evo 1tb for $136 shipped on ebay. gonna swap 1 into my hp omen 15 in place of the hdd storage drive. ill hang onto the other as a spare or to use in an external case as a backup. im also thinking about using the 1tb hdd from the omen 15 and using it as storage in my potatoe build i7-880 and using my sandisk z400s 128gb for the os.
I just brough 860 evo 1tb for my ps4,same price as mx500,so i choose samsung😂😂😂
Wow its insane how much cheaper SSD has gotten, going from £250 to £85 in the UK for a 1TB SSD
NEVER buy a Quad Level SSD. Triple is fine for medium usage. (Like these that are reviewed)
@@HermanWillems most of the £85 1TB ones I am on about are in the same level as the crucial SSD. £42 for a 500GB Drevo SSD
i'M Also with Crucial MX500, budget-wise for the performance
6:04 "The MX500 is coming in around 260$ for the 1TB"
Wow, time is really changing. Paid 80€ for mine MX500 1TB today
Picking up the 4tb 870 QVO it’s £50 cheaper than the crucial one, this is my first Samsung ssd so I hope it’ll be worth it!
Great video on comparison. I purchased a crucial 500gb over the samsung even the the samsung is very marginally better than the crucial. The crucial was £12 cheaper
I use Paragon.Hard.Disk.Manager.14.Suite got 2nd hand cheap £10 on ebay and works.
Nice to see competition from Crucial!
Now THIS is a late night video I can get into. Thanks Bryan!
My Crucial MX200 just crashed with my Lenovo T450s. So think I will try Samsung.
What’s the difference between the BX500 and MX500
Bx500 doesn't have dram. It's therefore cheaper but has it's own disadvantages like slower speeds and lesser durability.
I love Crucial MX500 maybe this year I will buy 1TB. ^ _ ^ Lovely drive!
I love Samsung SSDs. Wondering where you saw the $300 price for the 1TB Samsung 860 Evo, because in Canada right now it costs 220 CAD $.
awesome video on ssd guide. by the way when is the monthly hunt for PC parts?
I've got both of these. They both perform very well and it is hard to pick the difference. Random reads is higher on the EVO but it isn't noticeable. Samsung cloning software is the best. The closing software that comes with other brand SSD isn't always the best.
Thanks for the great review. Looks like all reviewers like these drives. I currently have a Ryzen 7 1700X build with a 5 year old Corsair Neutron 256GB boot drive (140GB used) and a WD black data drive with 173GB in games. Should I get the MX500 as a new boot drive and put the old Corsair as a data drive. Or, should I get the EVO 960 as boot drive? Or, leave the Corsair as boot and put the MX500 as data drive? In short, is the 960 worth double the money (per GB) currently and would I notice any difference between the corsair and the MX500 or 960 EVO? P.S. I don't move large files regularly. I use my PC for games, multi browsers, SQL management, RDP and very occasional Premiere and Photoshop use...
man i love the wood in your table. that is top notch wood!
MX500. Had it for a couple of years and works just fine. I do not clone so that is irrelevant. I prefer fresh installs. My user files always sit on regular hard disk.
MX500 claims power loss protection. How about durability and failure rates over time?
The Crucial product was something I would've been considering if it wasn't for a recent *flash* sale (ha ha ha) on the Samsung drives I spotted on Ebay.
Get the cheapest as the difference is very small in performance! But Samsung's cloning software is miles ahead off the others.
It’s good software
I just bought a Crucial MX500 2TB for my PS4 Pro for $187 on eBay. There's deals around if you look for them.
hey brian id just like to say im a big fan of yours and i appreciate your videos. I have restored an old del xps 410 with a core 2 quad 6700, 8gb ddr2, 600 watt psu and rx 470 for my 6 yr old son to play games with but its still not to my liking. I have a person whos selling an old custom full tower with psu, case, i5 2400, 8 gb ddr3 and a gtx 760 for 100$ or should i get an old hp z400 workstation with psu, case, dvdrw, 12 gb ddr2 in triple channel, w3675 with no os and hd for 150$. Do you think i should jump on either and which one? And install a ssd and add 16 gb ddr3 or ddr2 depending for my son and how much of a difference do you think it would make? The division gets around 40-50 fps with his current setup in 1080p low detail and black ops 3 gets about 50-60 fps in 1080p all with low detail on. The stutters are kinda annoying in division and it also has some menu quirks in game not pulling up straight away. I got him the one x for christmas but id like to get him away from that and solely into pc gaming with me for bf1 and some other fps and rpg games. Remember he has the rx 470 card i bought for 155$ at best buy to use so the gtx 760 i can sell on ebay.
if you was going to put it in a server you use the samsung Pro drive not EVO (far more reliable as they still use MLC and have about 2-4x the DWP on them even and dont use SLC cache so they stay same speed under any size of write conditions),
unless i am wrong data is written directly to the NAND no DRAM buffering, the DDR ram on the SSDs is only used for PAGE table (as to why Dramless SSDs are very poor as they have to access the PAGE table from NAND on any access and any changes to the PAGE table have to be committed right away to the nand very slow)
takes about 5-8 minutes to fill up the SLC cache before the drive slows down on the samsung evo and crucial MX drives (samsung Pro drives are MLC so no SLC cache so they are very consistent)
Good review. Thanks.
The Samsung pro cost 3 times more than the MX500. I've been using Crucial for good number of years now and will stay there. No Problems at all. Look up the Samsung EVO's on youtube. I don't think they have completely fixed their EVO problems either becasue people are still reporting problems with them after the 2020-2021 date.