MX500 vs 860 Evo

[Marfe]

Good day!

 

It’s prime day today and I’m thinking of buying a 500GB SSD for the games that I play most of the time. 

 

I was original going to buy the 860 Evo at the end of the month when I receive my salary but today MX500 is included in the prime day sale.

 

Today the price of MX500 500GB is $97(Prime day discount, not on sale = $125) while the 500GB 860 Evo is $125(Not included in the prime day sale)

 

Can anyone tell me their experience with Crucial SSDs? I’ve been using Samsung SSDs for years (My cousin still uses my 128gb 830 evo until now) and I didn’t have a problem with them.

 

I just want to hear your thoughts on Cruicial SSDs. Thank you!

[Jurrunio]

They are very similar. Both are the fastest bunch of SATA SSDs, both have 5-year warranties, both produce their own flash memory so it's unlikely for them to use worse parts (and worsen their reputation).Crucial is a brand owned by Micron btw.

 

Get the cheaper one

[dizmo]

I'd just get the Crucial. You won't notice any difference between the two.

[robertPdrake]

Similar dilemma , Samsung and Crucial make the fastest and cheaper drives than the competition, but here in Canada Samsung as a reputation for not honouring warranties on SSDs.  Crucial give me a real hard time when I refused to pay brokerage on replacement ram module they sent and were not helpful in resolving the issue.  So I'm stuck with Kingston pretty much.

[TheReal_ist]

12 hours ago, Marfe said:

Good day!

 

It’s prime day today and I’m thinking of buying a 500GB SSD for the games that I play most of the time. 

 

I was original going to buy the 860 Evo at the end of the month when I receive my salary but today MX500 is included in the prime day sale.

 

Today the price of MX500 500GB is $97(Prime day discount, not on sale = $125) while the 500GB 860 Evo is $125(Not included in the prime day sale)

 

Can anyone tell me their experience with Crucial SSDs? I’ve been using Samsung SSDs for years (My cousin still uses my 128gb 830 evo until now) and I didn’t have a problem with them.

 

I just want to hear your thoughts on Cruicial SSDs. Thank you!

Are u in Canada because an 860 evo 500gb costs 117US bud??

 

 

edit: You can get a Sandisk 1tb ssd for 145 link 

Come on 30 bucks more another 500gb of flash storage thats dumb not to buy. If your buying US that is. 

[Marfe]

On 7/18/2018 at 3:35 AM, robertPdrake said:

Similar dilemma , Samsung and Crucial make the fastest and cheaper drives than the competition, but here in Canada Samsung as a reputation for not honouring warranties on SSDs.  Crucial give me a real hard time when I refused to pay brokerage on replacement ram module they sent and were not helpful in resolving the issue.  So I'm stuck with Kingston pretty much.

 

On 7/18/2018 at 4:00 AM, TheReal1st said:

Are u in Canada because an 860 evo 500gb costs 117US bud??

 

 

edit: You can get a Sandisk 1tb ssd for 145 link 

Come on 30 bucks more another 500gb of flash storage thats dumb not to buy. If your buying US that is. 

I live in Japan.

[SZ1357]

9 hours ago, Marfe said:

 

I live in Japan.

Crucial MX500 is good, it wa in my old laptop (sorry the Mx300 was in my old laptop) and after 4 years and about 600tb of host writes it’s still running fine and I transferred it over to my new laptop for more storage. You won’t notice a difference between the Samsung and crucial.