Samsung 980 Pro vs Crucial MX500

**GPU** As for the GPU, I went with a 3-fan, 2-slot RTX 3060 Ti from EVGA. This case supports even larger 3-slot cards, but I wasn't looking to break the bank on anything fancier than a 3060 Ti. There are 2-fan variants available, but considering I had the space for some extra cooling and I'm hoping this thing runs quietly, I decided to upgrade to a mid-range 3-fan card.

For best results, make sure your target and destination drives are exactly the same capacity, skip the frustrating and buggy Acronis software entirely and download something like Macrium Reflect. Not only is it also free, but it actually works and is not entirely impossible to figure out. The hour+ I spent with steam coming out of my ears trying to get Acronis to do anything at all was wasted time. Macrium installed in a few minutes and in less than 10 minutes of tinkering and reading their online help pages, I was cloning my old drive to my new drive

99 for 1TB), launched last week, gives the SSD 980 some healthy competition, the SSD 980 has come right in and stolen the first-place performance and value crown for PCI Express 3.0 drives back for Samsung once again.

I have over 2,000 hours of operation at the time of this writing on a 4 disk array of these in a hardware RAID 5 on a MegaRAID 9361-8i controller. On the plus side this has partial power loss protection and RAIN protections and it looks like it covers what it needs to while the controller with RAID controller BBU covers the rest. They are also really fast and especially in a 4 disk RAID the performance is quite impressive. One thing I am finding out is hardware RAID tends not to support TRIM

Samsung has re-ignited the debate over what an SSD should cost these days, and it enters the midrange with an MLC drive that carries a surprisingly high durability rating for its product class. Here's a breakdown of the specs and pricing by capacity..

I bought two of these. This first review is for the 500GB SSD. My review for the 1TB drive is below. This serves two purposes for me

Not a bad compromise as I at least don’t have to have any software just to do that at start up.

I wish I'd done it years ago! The hardest part was my failing eyes trying to screw the drive caddy to the new drive. If you can follow simple instructions and a desire to keep your old laptop instead of buying a new one then this is for you BUY IT! The only snag I ran into was my laptop not "seeing" the drive when I plugged it in. It took a while, some reboots, checking my BIOS settings and some Googling, but it was eventually recognized. Honestly, i think i should have just been patient when i initially plugged it in for cloning and waited an hour or so for it to be recognized

I do think these are a bit pricy even on sale, but if you play a lot of console games, a necessary purchase. 4 stars

Crucial MX500 1TB 3D NAND SSD. The best value for money. It would make some sense to buy small 2242 m.2, e

will i recommend it to a friend? no! do your research and find out which other pcie4.0 m.2 drives beat this one and buy literally any of those.

I have been using Crucial SSDs since 2010. After getting my first one, I never went with a different brand unless there was some unavoidable reason. Crucial has consistently delivered me quality products with excellent performance and longevity. To this day, I still use my first SSD from them and it works just as well as the day I got it

And just to address the elephant that I’m sure somebody will try to let into the room - yes this case has the completely new PCIe riser in it. No fire risk included.

Update (11 Feb 18): I'm not sure whether it is the drive or the solution provided by Crucial in the comments to this review, but I now have a working SSD on my troublesome Windows 10 machine. I followed the suggestion to turn off "Secure Boot" for the clone to see what would happened. I cloned my Win10 HD to aMicron 1100 2TB SATA 6Gb/s 2.5-inch MTFDDAK2T0TBN-1AR1ZABYY using Macrium Reflect (rather than Acronis) with Secure Boot disabled