• Welcome to TechPowerUp Forums, Guest! Please check out our forum guidelines for info related to our community.

Crucial BX500 480 GB

Joined
Jan 17, 2018
Messages
433 (0.17/day)
Processor Ryzen 7 5800X3D
Motherboard MSI B550 Tomahawk
Cooling Noctua U12S
Memory 32GB @ 3600 CL18
Video Card(s) AMD 6800XT
Storage WD Black SN850(1TB), WD Black NVMe 2018(500GB), WD Blue SATA(2TB)
Display(s) Samsung Odyssey G9
Case Be Quiet! Silent Base 802
Power Supply Seasonic PRIME-GX-1000
I guess you haven't seen the $300 2TB Micron 1100 SSDs that are widely available on Amazon.

Sure I have, but 2TB @ $300 is still $1,200 @ 8TB. Sure, it's actually realistic to fit 4 SSD's in a case as opposed to 16, but it's still a long shot from the value that an 8TB HDD can give you in terms of storage.
 
Joined
Mar 6, 2017
Messages
3,332 (1.18/day)
Location
North East Ohio, USA
System Name My Ryzen 7 7700X Super Computer
Processor AMD Ryzen 7 7700X
Motherboard Gigabyte B650 Aorus Elite AX
Cooling DeepCool AK620 with Arctic Silver 5
Memory 2x16GB G.Skill Trident Z5 NEO DDR5 EXPO (CL30)
Video Card(s) XFX AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE
Storage Samsung 980 EVO 1 TB NVMe SSD (System Drive), Samsung 970 EVO 500 GB NVMe SSD (Game Drive)
Display(s) Acer Nitro XV272U (DisplayPort) and Acer Nitro XV270U (DisplayPort)
Case Lian Li LANCOOL II MESH C
Audio Device(s) On-Board Sound / Sony WH-XB910N Bluetooth Headphones
Power Supply MSI A850GF
Mouse Logitech M705
Keyboard Steelseries
Software Windows 11 Pro 64-bit
Benchmark Scores https://valid.x86.fr/liwjs3
Hard drives will probably always be around for mass storage of huge amounts of data simply because of the cost-to-capacity ratio. SSDs still do have their place in the market. SSDs are used for your main system/OS, programs that are loaded on startup, and any and all programs you want fast performance for. Anything else like your multimedia and pr0n collection can be on your old spinning rust HDD.
 
Joined
Jul 5, 2013
Messages
27,854 (6.69/day)
Hard drives will probably always be around for mass storage of huge amounts of data simply because of the cost-to-capacity ratio. SSDs still do have their place in the market. SSDs are used for your main system/OS, programs that are loaded on startup, and any and all programs you want fast performance for. Anything else like your multimedia and pr0n collection can be on your old spinning rust HDD.
While I would not disagree, who are you talking to?
 
Joined
Mar 6, 2017
Messages
3,332 (1.18/day)
Location
North East Ohio, USA
System Name My Ryzen 7 7700X Super Computer
Processor AMD Ryzen 7 7700X
Motherboard Gigabyte B650 Aorus Elite AX
Cooling DeepCool AK620 with Arctic Silver 5
Memory 2x16GB G.Skill Trident Z5 NEO DDR5 EXPO (CL30)
Video Card(s) XFX AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE
Storage Samsung 980 EVO 1 TB NVMe SSD (System Drive), Samsung 970 EVO 500 GB NVMe SSD (Game Drive)
Display(s) Acer Nitro XV272U (DisplayPort) and Acer Nitro XV270U (DisplayPort)
Case Lian Li LANCOOL II MESH C
Audio Device(s) On-Board Sound / Sony WH-XB910N Bluetooth Headphones
Power Supply MSI A850GF
Mouse Logitech M705
Keyboard Steelseries
Software Windows 11 Pro 64-bit
Benchmark Scores https://valid.x86.fr/liwjs3
Joined
Oct 31, 2012
Messages
8 (0.00/day)
System Name Plopy
Processor i7 3770k @ 4.6ghz
Motherboard Asrock Z77 Xtreme 6
Cooling Noctua NH-14
Memory G.Skill Ripjaws 32gb
Video Card(s) 2x GTX 1080ti's FTW3's
Storage 2x FAEX Caviar Black 1tb
Case CM Storm Series Trooper
Power Supply Seasonic 1000e Platinum
It's not hard to see metrics for SSD's vs Raptor HDD's... just go back like 8 years for the first ssd reviews and you will find them. Back then it was a joke comparing them because of how fast the ssd's were compared to hdd's, now it's just silly.
 
Joined
Jul 5, 2013
Messages
27,854 (6.69/day)
It's not hard to see metrics for SSD's vs Raptor HDD's... just go back like 8 years for the first ssd reviews and you will find them. Back then it was a joke comparing them because of how fast the ssd's were compared to hdd's, now it's just silly.
That's actually a very valid point.
 

FreedomEclipse

~Technological Technocrat~
Joined
Apr 20, 2007
Messages
24,067 (3.74/day)
Location
London,UK
System Name DarnGosh Edition
Processor AMD 7800X3D
Motherboard MSI X670E GAMING PLUS
Cooling Thermalright AM5 Contact Frame + Phantom Spirit 120SE
Memory 2x32GB G.Skill Trident Z5 NEO DDR5 6000 CL32-38-38-96
Video Card(s) Asus Dual Radeon™ RX 6700 XT OC Edition
Storage WD SN770 1TB (Boot)| 2x 2TB WD SN770 (Gaming)| 2x 2TB Crucial BX500| 2x 3TB Toshiba DT01ACA300
Display(s) LG GP850-B
Case Corsair 760T (White) {1xCorsair ML120 Pro|5xML140 Pro}
Audio Device(s) Yamaha RX-V573|Speakers: JBL Control One|Auna 300-CN|Wharfedale Diamond SW150
Power Supply Seasonic Focus GX-850 80+ GOLD
Mouse Logitech G502 X
Keyboard Duckyshine Dead LED(s) III
Software Windows 11 Home
Benchmark Scores ლ(ಠ益ಠ)ლ
Old review I know but crucial did eventually come out with bigger capacities. I think they go as high as 2TB now.

Only mentioning it because the price of these SSDs have been really dropping as of late and I was considering picking one or two up.

Shame the review wasnt revisited with the higher capacity drives.
 
Joined
Feb 20, 2020
Messages
9,340 (5.35/day)
Location
Louisiana
System Name Ghetto Rigs z490|x99|Acer 17 Nitro 7840hs/ 5600c40-2x16/ 4060/ 1tb acer stock m.2/ 4tb sn850x
Processor 10900k w/Optimus Foundation | 5930k w/Black Noctua D15
Motherboard z490 Maximus XII Apex | x99 Sabertooth
Cooling oCool D5 res-combo/280 GTX/ Optimus Foundation/ gpu water block | Blk D15
Memory Trident-Z Royal 4000c16 2x16gb | Trident-Z 3200c14 4x8gb
Video Card(s) Titan Xp-water | evga 980ti gaming-w/ air
Storage 970evo+500gb & sn850x 4tb | 860 pro 256gb | Acer m.2 1tb/ sn850x 4tb| Many2.5" sata's ssd 3.5hdd's
Display(s) 1-AOC G2460PG 24"G-Sync 144Hz/ 2nd 1-ASUS VG248QE 24"/ 3rd LG 43" series
Case D450 | Cherry Entertainment center on Test bench
Audio Device(s) Built in Realtek x2 with 2-Insignia 2.0 sound bars & 1-LG sound bar
Power Supply EVGA 1000P2 with APC AX1500 | 850P2 with CyberPower-GX1325U
Mouse Redragon 901 Perdition x3
Keyboard G710+x3
Software Win-7 pro x3 and win-10 & 11pro x3
Benchmark Scores Are in the benchmark section
Hi,
480gb weird size.
 
Top