News Crucial discontinues the popular MX500 SSD to make way for next-gen drives — SATA III SSD retires after seven years

[Admin]

Users will now have fewer SATA-based SSDs since Crucial is no longer manufacturing its popular seven-year-old MX500.

Crucial discontinues the popular MX500 SSD to make way for next-gen drives — SATA III SSD retires after seven years : Read more

 

[bit_user]

For those wanting a TLC SATA drive, Samsung 870 EVO is still available and uses TLC. They introduced a separate QVO model that uses QLC, so I think the EVO will continue being TLC as long as it's still available. I think it's also newer than the MX500, but both drives are pretty much running at the limit of their SATA interface.

I've bought many Crucial SATA drives, over the years. Most of them were MX-series and the ones I'm still using are still going strong. I've got an even older M500 in my PS3 and it's still working, too.

One thing I'm not sure about is whether any TLC M.2 SATA drives are still available. If you have a laptop made in the 2016-2017 timeframe, before M.2 NVMe became ubiquitous, it's possible that it doesn't support NVMe drives in that slot, and that's where I think the MX500 will missed the most.

 

[SocDriver]

I hope the 8 drives I have in my Hyper Visor don't crap out, its been nice having them as a couple of storage arrays for my servers in my home lab. Price to performance of the MX500 was something nobody could beat. I hope there is a new TLC line Crucial makes with newer and higher density chips. Bring on the 16TB SATA SSDs!

 

[King_V]

Definitely gonna miss these. I've got a few of them. They're great for older systems, or systems with only one M.2 NVMe slot.

A shame the M.2 SATA versions seemed to disappear some time ago. I think at least two of the machines I have are equipped with an M.2 SATA-only slot as their secondary M.2 slot.

Admittedly, having a NAS means that huge storage on my PCs isn't as much of a need as it once might've been.

 

[TCA_ChinChin]

I've bought many Crucial SATA drives, over the years. Most of them were MX-series and the ones I'm still using are still going strong. I've got an even older M500 in my PS3 and it's still working, too.

One thing I'm not sure about is whether any TLC M.2 SATA drives are still available. If you have a laptop made in the 2016-2017 timeframe, before M.2 NVMe became ubiquitous, it's possible that it doesn't support NVMe drives in that slot, and that's where I think the MX500 will missed the most.

Crucial has been a solid RAM + SSD manufactorer for me. Started out on Crucial ballistix DDR3 and my first SSD was an older crucial drive. Used their BX, and MX SSDs for myself and others with very little hassle. Using their more recent P3 drives, and hope they continue with their nice NAND products.

 

[Amdlova]

Have some cheap team group ssds with old tlc chips... got one last year. Not good has the mx500 but the price is right.
Got some inland too. Don't have time to do some test but I think these ssds will be way better than these cheap ones with out cache.

 

[froggx]

Have some cheap team group ssds with old tlc chips... got one last year. Not good has the mx500 but the price is right.
Got some inland too. Don't have time to do some test but I think these ssds will be way better than these cheap ones with out cache.

Teamgroup's Vulcan Z SSDs are where it's at if you want some good cheap TLC NAND. They usually cost less than competing QLC drives like Crucial's BX500 while performing better.

I've got an MX500 from when they first came out and used it across multiple systems over the years as a boot drive. Coincidentally, I just pulled it from a laptop that's getting a new system board a couple hours ago and threw it in a USB dock to prep it for a new project.

The thing about the MX500 that makes it special is that DRAM cache. It just got harder to find SATA drives that still have one.