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this may be just nitpicking but I have the impression it feels cheaper? they went in BX direction in the case, nothing to do with my mx300 

 

this is the MX300 forgive me for all the dust and RGBlightingless... I just don't care xD

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this is the new MX500:

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Hi, my first post here!

I currently have a MX 300 for my system, the 525gb one, and some spinning HDDs for the files, some month ago I bought a BX 300 240 as cache for my work, mostly AE disk cache and auto save, scratch and stuffs, but now the MX 500 is out there so... I want to know how could both compare... 

BX300 240GB vs MX500 250GB

 

any thoughts?

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MX500 is definitely quicker.

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MX500 is faster, but not fast enough to replace your BX300

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spec wise the mx500 is faster but idk about anything else

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Hey thank you so much! you have been so more helpful than amazon answers! in almost an entire day I have received only one answer and it's not even related with what I'm asking 

so is faster, but not that faster? I have already bought the ssd but well... at least isn't gonna be slower :D

the outgoing BX300 have around 2 tb or so written and have already paid for itself but it writes ok even nearly at full, I have an over provision of 5%, the MX500 being a TLC how could fare in this respect? 

I haven't found a review or comparison of the two models   

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2 minutes ago, iskander87 said:

Hey thank you so much! you have been so more helpful than amazon answers! in almost an entire day I have received only one answer and it's not even related with what I'm asking 

so is faster, but not that faster? I have already bought the ssd but well... at least isn't gonna be slower :D

the outgoing BX300 have around 2 tb or so written and have already paid for itself but it writes ok even nearly at full, I have an over provision of 5%, the MX500 being a TLC how could fare in this respect? 

I haven't found a review or comparison of the two models   

Cell type doesnt matter much on durability because the controller is what dies first 95% of the time. Controllers on Crucial's SSDs are good so dont worry.

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1 hour ago, Jurrunio said:

Cell type doesnt matter much on durability because the controller is what dies first 95% of the time. Controllers on Crucial's SSDs are good so dont worry.

well, this is the first time I read that... in all the sites and reviews they're always saying tlc doesn't last etc. good to know, and what about performance when the drive is full or nearly full? 

could you point me to some review about the MX500 250 gb version?

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4 hours ago, iskander87 said:

well, this is the first time I read that... in all the sites and reviews they're always saying tlc doesn't last etc. good to know, and what about performance when the drive is full or nearly full? 

could you point me to some review about the MX500 250 gb version?

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MX500 is so new there arent any reviews. All we know is that the controller is made by Silicon Motion, which isnt a bad name.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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27 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

MX500 is so new there arent any reviews. All we know is that the controller is made by Silicon Motion, which isnt a bad name.

yeah, it's exactly the same controller of the BX300 the SM2258

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this may be just nitpicking but I have the impression it feels cheaper? they went in BX direction in the case, nothing to do with my mx300 

 

this is the MX300 forgive me for all the dust and RGBlightingless... I just don't care xD

20180205_220658.thumb.jpg.14817e19291aece350f794569d3a5893.jpg

 

this is the new MX500:

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