Crucial MX500 2TB SSD Review

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TIMESTAMPS for video:
0:00 start;
0:50 Main Features;
1:07 Price;
1:40 Packaging & Accessories;
2:09 Internal construction;
3:35 Crystal Disk Mark Test;
3:58 ATTO Disk Benchmark Test;
4:27 Video Game Level Load Test;
4:49 File Copy Test & Performance;
5:29 Conclusion;
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[@Thrasher1984]

Just ordered one last week and installed it on the weekend. I use it for my Steam games because my P5 already holds my OS and apps. Also, my 3 TB BarraCuda HDD caused slow loading times and sometimes even annoying shader compilation/texture streaming stutter, which is why I only use it for my lossless music collection and documents from now on. The MX500 instantly removed the HDD bottleneck, holds quite a few games and doesn't run hot at all. I definitely recommend it as a gaming drive 👍

[@TechLegend-com]

It is a good SSD even today, too bad that it has a high price.

[@ThisOrThat13]

I appreciate seeing a benchmark graph. Crucial MX500 and the Samsung 870 EVO both seem to have their own issues. Though just having something else to compare them too helps a bit.

[@TechLegend-com]

Glad to hear that it was useful to you! :)

[@jeanmont]

The quasi-technotronic opening tunes in the video got me all hyped up

[@TechLegend-com]

Glad to hear!

[@chriscox6222]

I love the mx500 drives. I have quite a few. with the 2TB one being my latest purchase :D

[@TechLegend-com]

Great to hear, I hope the price was good!

[@chriscox6222]

@@TechLegend-com £120, so not too bad 😆

[@TechLegend-com]

@@chriscox6222 Not bad at all!

[@casperacy]

thank you for this review. i needed something pretty fast and reliable to store my torrents, and i wanted something a bit cheap as Australian prices are royally fucked, and the better brands go up to 200-400 dollars. so thank you again for this review😁

[@TechLegend-com]

You are very welcome! :)

[@Destructor8031]

Getting a couple of these for an ITX build as it has limited M.2 slots. MX500 is one of the cheapest SSDs that actually have a DRAM cache.

[@edlittle8831]

Would be interesting to see a comparison of TBW for these SSD's

[@TechLegend-com]

The issue with a direct comparison for TBW is that it's tricky to test them. In addition, a lot of people barely use their SSDs to make the TBW rating relevant.

[@vBDKv]

1TB cost LESS compared to my old 120GB Samsung 850 Evo :p Amazing how ssd prices are going down. I'll grab this drive soon. Also the tiny pcb size is due to the "3D" NAND layer. A regular non"3D" takes up more space and is inherently slower.

[@TechLegend-com]

I have to agree on the pricing. I remember when a 128GB SSD was expensive.

[@jayhussain6959]

Bought. I have a nvme by crucial and needed more storage. Got this one cause price is right, Samsung and WD are like 30-60% more in price.

[@TechLegend-com]

Indeed WD and Samsung are expensive, especially now.

[@megabaneen8057]

excellent comparison. very well done. Do you know how much cache is on the drive?

[@TechLegend-com]

It has 2 GB of DRAM for its cache.

[@TheRealJohnHooper]

You are lucky.. Someone left this SSD in the grass 🙂

[@TechLegend-com]

I know, right! :D

[@shahbaaz2958]

@Tech Legend Great video! I am looking to buy a data SSD but I'm confused between Crucial mx500 and Samsung 870 evo. Please help me pick one! Thanks!

[@TechLegend-com]

Hi, get the one that is cheapest. Both are good, the Samsung is slightly faster but you will not notice the speed in your daily usage.

[@shahbaaz2958]

@@TechLegend-com thanks!

[@PietroGanciPsicoman2011]

Inserito nella mia PlayStation 4 Pro con pasta termica Noctua H2 , ottico sonoro, hdmi orange 8/4k 🔥

[@domantasdobrovolskas2759]

Some people say they started to fail in considerable amounts during last year. So I personally won't buy it, even just for storage. What's your opinion?

[@TechLegend-com]

I can't say as the failing SSDs might be a different batch. Best is to check the return rate of the SSD with your preferred retailer and make an educated decision based on that.

[@roninzero12]

How exactly? I have mine for a year already and not a single problem.

[@TechLegend-com]

@@roninzero12 I'm not clear on the issue. It can be either a bad batch that had a lower life span or something else happening. If yours is working after one year than I'd say that it will continue to work for many years.

[@hanrinch]

To be honest, there is no way to find out which model is the one with 176 layers qlc b47r and which is the older model with b16a(64 layers) and crucial never release any info for the manufactured date. Whatever crucial is doing is confuse the shit out of the consumers. Ps: the one that you broke down was b27a 128 layers tlc, I just hope that the one I bought is b27a or b16a

[@TechLegend-com]

Unfortunately this is the case with many brands and many products, especially the older models. Please let me know what model your SSD is.

[@hanionline563]

Crucial P2 is QLC and MX500 is TLC thats why its expensive personally i will go for MX500

[@TechLegend-com]

It all depends on what your needs are from an SSD. Some want speed some want more storage.

[@joseph2235]

The P2 lacks DRAM, just something to consider.

[@TechLegend-com]

Indeed, but it is better as it's an M.2 drive. Also, you can forget the P2 for a moment, you can find some decent M.2 SSDs for less.

[@edlittle8831]

yep - also the P2 uses QLC whereas the MX500 is TLC. Endurance much worse on the P2. Not a direct comparison really.

[@TechLegend-com]

@@edlittle8831 M.2 vs SATA. It is a valid comparison when they are at the same price.

[@barrysbaps01]

I need the fastest SATA SSD I have the 4TB Version and the VRAM is 512 and I am running into issues. It is fora Black Magic Production Camera 4K the card just can't handle the workload even in 1080p Pro Res. Please Help.

[@TechLegend-com]

I'd say that the Samsung Evo series is one of the best speed wise.

[@user-vr6ke6tl2o]

Are you sure the interface isn't the bottleneck?

[@TechLegend-com]

​@@user-vr6ke6tl2o Yes, given that I've used a direct SATA connection on the SSD.

[@virallzone]

Hello, is it still worth getting 1TB version for gaming? Are there any updates on failing?

[@Animal_lives_matter]

I have researched all the competing brands at similar price point, and I find similar reports of failures on those too, and some worse reports like 970 EVO and WD Blue SA510. Both of those received firmware updates that claim to have resolved their issues. Crucial have also claimed to fix some "corner case" problem in their latest firmware M3CR046. I keep coming back to the MX500 even though I want to get something else, there just doesn't seem to be a better option in the price bracket. If money was no object I'd get the Seagate IronWolf NAS SSD. I don't know, I think all low-mid tier SSDs are poor in 2023. Even WD Red SSDs have reports of premature failures in Amazon reviews. All of the cheaper ones are slow, DRAMless and use cheaper and cheaper designs to drive the price down while quality and performance suffers. I get the feeling something went wrong with SSDs in the last couple of years. I don't know what it could be, maybe Covid related somehow. Maybe it's just a small amount of users having issues while the majority who had no problems don't feel the need to write reviews saying they had no issue. On the other hand the large amount of positive Amazon reviews for 970 EVO are all just short term reviews. Sort by lowest rating tells a different story, people reporting back after 1 year, 2 years. And then you have some reports from people claiming to have bought large batches of MX500 for schools and businesses with 30% failure rate. But maybe this was because they were running old bugged firmware which corrupted the data. So the drive is not really dead but just corrupted data, so perhaps it could be used again with new firmware and reinstalling everything? I'm writing this on a 2013 SanDisk SDSSDXP240G (TLC). According to CrystalDiskInfo: 20,004hrs usage, 94% health, 14TBW, 20TBR, 0 uncorrectable errors, 0 reassigned blocks. It has never done anything weird and the OS has never crashed (Windows 7).

[@Nahi_dungi_free_me]

​@@Animal_lives_matterso who should go for Mx500 ?

[@minukarodrigo]

​@@Nahi_dungi_free_meliterally everybody!!! As long as you can afford it 👍

[@marshal7969]

5:44 you do realize that the P2 has no dram cache right?

[@TechLegend-com]

Yes, I also realize that we are talking about an M.2 SSD against a SATA SSD.

[@marshal7969]

@@TechLegend-com Ahh I see that makes sense, it's like saying why would I want a high end hard drive vs a budget sata ssd. But! for me personally, unlike sata ports on your motherboard, m.2 are scarce on your motherboard, so then my question is why would you want a budget m.2 on one of your or only your only m.2 slot?

[@TechLegend-com]

@@marshal7969 Usually, people that want a budget storage SSD are not concerned with using their M.2 Socket. That's why I recommended the Crucial M.2 SSD even though it has no DRAM cache.

[@CelestialxPanda]

Can I game with this in a sata to usb c / usb 3 config ???

[@TechLegend-com]

I believe you can.

[@kath4rsis513]

Mine just came with 1.8Tb available, is that normal? Sorry i'm don't speak English

[@TechLegend-com]

It is normal, don't worry. A 1TB drive will have around 980GB of space available, same with 2TB having only 1.8TB.

[@kath4rsis513]

@@TechLegend-com and what about when u buy 4TB, how much less it has to be?

[@TechLegend-com]

@@kath4rsis513 For a 4TB Drive, you'll expect to have 3.73 TB of space available. This is not an issue. In general terms, the capacity of an SSD or HDD is measured in decimal bytes, but your computer uses binary bytes. Thus, your computer converts the number of bytes into gigabytes by dividing by 1024 all the way up through the scale, not by dividing by 1,000. And this is why you get less space than advertised.

[@kath4rsis513]

@@TechLegend-com i see, thanks a lot

[@TechLegend-com]

@@kath4rsis513 Glad I was able to help!

[@TheRealJohnHooper]

1 TB MX500 is 50 Euros in Germany.. Incredible.. 😮

[@TechLegend-com]

It is!

[@Animal_lives_matter]

I just bought 2TB MX500 for 90 EUR on Amazon AU, it's too cheap and I am worried they are cutting corners somewhere

[@TechLegend-com]

@@Animal_lives_matter Let us hope not!

[@Animal_lives_matter]

@@TechLegend-com Well, it arrived with latest firmware M3CR046 pre-installed, which Crucial Storage Executive describes as an "optional update which repairs a hang condition occurring under corner-case workloads". On reddit some server admins with RAID arrays of MX500s were saying it fixed their issue. I'm having trouble imagining how a certain workload could make it hang - the controller should be able to deal with any pattern of requests to read or write data. This is basic low level stuff that should be bulletproof from day 1 firmware. The previous MX500 I bought in Feb 23 had M3CR045 from factory, which I updated to M3CR046 as a precaution. Have barely used it, only as a backup drive to reimage OS drive to. So no data from me on that one. The previous MX500 I bought before that was from 2021 and had M3CR023 from factory, and that one cannot be updated to M3CR046 because it uses a different controller for which M3CR023 is the latest version. I am using this one as OS drive and will continue to do so as I read some comments that M3CR023 is for drives that use the older controller which is rumored to be more reliable. Looking at comments it seems the problematic ones seem to be around the batch that was shipping with M3CR043. This was coincidentally around the time Samsung started having issues with their EVOs. Could it be related somehow? Weird temporal correlation. Nobody seems to really know what's going on. Some comments are saying to monitor the S.M.A.R.T F7 and F8 properties to check for unusually high write amplification factor (WAF) which if present would mean the NAND chips will fail quickly due to "drive health" falling rapidly, which some users have experienced (even on M3CR023). The WAF can be calculated by doing (F7+F8)/F7. On my OS drive I have 2.2 WAF, which is within normal range but not great. I just copied 1TB onto my new 2TB MX500 and it has 1.1 WAF after that procedure.

[@Nahi_dungi_free_me]

​@@Animal_lives_matteri don't know this technical terms too well can you conclude wheather one should buy it or not if the only purpose to use is some videos lecture and basic office releted stuff(most of Excel)?

[@TheRealJohnHooper]

Wooo.. Prices exploded.. Crucial MX500 2TB is now 150 Euros! I got it for 100 Euros at black Friday amazon Germany.. WTF However: They are still affordable..

[@TechLegend-com]

Not sure why that would happen, perhaps they are made in less quantities.

[@TheRealJohnHooper]

@@TechLegend-com Nope. Quote: SSDs are getting more expensive, and we’re just getting started. The prices of NAND chips that are used in SSDs are expected to jump by 50% over the coming months, according to TrendForce, which will translate into higher prices for storage. Even at the start of 2024, we’re already seeing some of those price increases in effect.

[@TheRealJohnHooper]

@@TechLegend-com Before shaking your first at greed, though, it’s important to establish some context. The prices of SSDs dropped continually over last year, mostly driven by consistent price drops on NAND flash. The turnaround in pricing is to ensure NAND suppliers like Samsung, SK Group, and Western Digital can turn a profit. Even with the first wave of price increases, SSD prices are still far lower than they were a couple of years ago. Still, if you’re planning on picking up a new SSD for your PC, it’s a good idea to get one soon. We’re already seeing an upward trend in prices, and multiple sources over the past few months indicate major NAND flash manufacturers are going to continue to push prices up. They may never climb to the heights we saw at the end of 2022, but it’s still best to pick up an SSD sooner than later

[@TheRealJohnHooper]

@@TechLegend-com Last year was rock bottom of SSD prices..

[@michaelmcconnell7302]

i just picked up another 1tb mx500 for $52.

[@TechLegend-com]

That's a great price!

[@michaelmcconnell7302]

@@TechLegend-com it's a great drive. I may even put a few in my own pc 😎

[@mastracu66207]

I just got 2TB for $95!

[@TechLegend-com]

Awesome deal!

[@bigbiscuit6751]

Just picked up a 2tb for 117$ after taxes

[@TechLegend-com]

Good price! :)

[@EyeNVNo1]

$114 on Amazon after taxes as I’m typing this

[@TechLegend-com]

@@EyeNVNo1 It will hit 100USD in no time at this rate.

[@TheRealJohnHooper]

I purchased another 1gb at black friday, just because it was so cheap.. I am rich.. Haha

[@TechLegend-com]

Rich boy take it easy!

[@woodbine66]

My MX500 only lasted 3 years in home pc - light use. Not impressed.

[@TechLegend-com]

That's too bad. It's unfortunate hearing many people having issues with these SSDs.

[@Animal_lives_matter]

ASMR :3

[@TechLegend-com]

Really?

[@Animal_lives_matter]

@@TechLegend-com Yeah I found your voice made me unusually relaxed and I felt a bit hypnotised. Sorry if that's a bit weird. I'm not usually into ASMR or anything. I find the intentional ASMR videos a bit weird and cringey to be honest. However this particular video of yours was a case of so-called "unintentional ASMR".

[@TechLegend-com]

@@Animal_lives_matter Ah, I understand now! Glad to hear it thank you for the kind words! :)

[@Kreemerz]

Where are the Americans?

[@dandcarter]

Where is Jay?

[@roryodonnell]

Game loading graph not to scale. Unsubscribing

[@TechLegend-com]

Not to scale in what way? It's using the numbers to create the graph bars.

[@Wlad1]

@@TechLegend-com it's not what he talking about, your graph starts at "18" or something, not @Zero.

[@TechLegend-com]

@@Wlad1 Oh! Now I see it! My bad guys. I've corrected the graph and all new reviews from this point forwards will have the correct scale. Thank you for letting me know! :)

[@mr.movietrailers3591]

Crucial is Junk! Nothing but problems

[@f0rsakenPT]

why?

[@yomismo1888]

Tell us more 😮