Crucial Discontinues One of Its Most Popular SSDs After 7 Years

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The MX500, one of Crucial's most popular SATA SSDs, is no longer in production, according to a new statement that the company has shared with the press.

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I have one of their BX500's in one of my PC's. Been a good drive.
 
I have a 500 gig samsung sata sitting in a bag somewhere.... don't even know where. It makes sense for Crucial to move on here.
 
Grimlakin said:
I have a 500 gig samsung sata sitting in a bag somewhere.... don't even know where. It makes sense for Crucial to move on here.
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The MX500 is not called that because it is 500GB, it is a name of a series. I believe it goes from 250GB to 2TB.

Besides I think 500GB is still more than enough as a boot drive for most people.
 
Zarathustra said:
I haven't used a SATA SSD in years...
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Kind of the same. For me that was the whole point of doing my X570 and B550 builds. For a time, as an experiment to see what could be done, I did include SATA SSDs and an 8 or 10 TB HDD in the NZXT7 build but I didn't make much use of them (assorted media and whatnot) since everything I really need is on the 2x NVMe drives on the motherboard. I tore that one down over the summer and moved both B550 boards to the mATX builds and so no non-NVMe stuff is in use at all anymore.
 
I'm a data hoarder of sorts so I have plenty of drives, currently 4 NVMe and 3 SATA (I have 2 2TB QVO drives which are plenty fast for older games and were relatively cheap compared to other 2TB drives at the tome) in my main machine, mostly Samsung, but my main drive is a WD black SN850X 2TB drive, my previous OS drive was only a 500GB Samsung NVMe, I normally use a smaller OS drive so it's easy to format in case needed.

I did have one of these crucial drives at one point, but it kept dissapearing from my system, RMA'd it but there was no stock to replace it so I had a refund and bought a different brand.
 
I recently purchased a 2TB BX500 to replace my "misc" drive which I just used for downloads and stuff I didn't intend to keep long term. It was an 1TB Hitachi HDD manufactured in 2009, so 15 years old, and it didn't fail, I just wanted better performance.

I still have two SATA spinners (18 + 10 TB) beside that one SSD as long term storage. The rest of my drives are NVME SSDs: 2 + 2 + 2 + 4 TB
 
I've owned many an MX500 over the years.. Great drives... I use them as inexpensive SSD storage for my test benches in the office for ProxMox...
 
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