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Samsung 860 QVO vs Crucial MX500 (both 1TB) for Games and VMs

Trinopoty
By Trinopoty
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I'm confused between the Samsung QVO 1TB and the Crucial MX500 1TB for my upgrade. I'm currently running a Kingston A400 500GB and running pretty low on space.

I have only two purposes for this drive, as a game drive and as a VM drive to keep Ubuntu VMs mostly. Which one would you people suggest?

I've run out of free SATA ports so I don't have to option of just keeping the current one and adding a 500GB one unless I get a HBA card that costs as much as the SSD upgrade in my area.

Both the Samsung and Crucial are at the same price point.

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MX500 is better, about on par with Samsung's 860 EVO rather than the QVO.

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Something tells me that I saw that Samsung's QVO drives aren't quite the general purpose drives they appear to be... but I forget where I saw it.

I frequently edit any posts you may quote; please check for anything I 'may' have added.

 

Did you test boot it, before you built in into the case?

WHY NOT...?!

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