What's the difference between Crucial MX100 and MX500? Which is better as an external hard drive?
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Indeed I did not see any MX500 on Crucial's website. There is the M500, the M550, and the latest MX100. The are subtle differences between them, and even in the same model, for example, writing speeds vary according to capacity... With so many subtle "differences", it's hard to say which is best. There is also the matter of the price to take into account. I suggest you read this review by TechReport, which also has reviews for the other two SSDs. Loads of tech info to weave through. http://techreport.com/review/26532/crucial-mx100-solid-state-drive-reviewed
575314
I think there is no such thing as a MX500, it is the M500. There is the M550 which delivers similar performace as the MX100 Series. The latter is newer and faster than the ageing M500. There is a preference towards the latest MX100. I would definitely go for the MX100.
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Indeed I did not see any MX500 on Crucial's website. There is the M500, the M550, and the latest MX100. The are subtle differences between them, and even in the same model, for example, writing speeds vary according to capacity... With so many subtle "differences", it's hard to say which is best. There is also the matter of the price to take into account. I suggest you read this review by TechReport, which also has reviews for the other two SSDs. Loads of tech info to weave through.http://techreport.com/review/26532/crucial-mx100-solid-state-drive-reviewed
1576967
Just checked one of mine (using a great tool called "Crystal Disk Info". Great Tool, just choose "Custom install" {not express} and opt out of anything else, it's just bogus ads)So the speed says 5400RPM and it says 8Meg of flash (RAM). The actual internal hard drive is: wd10jmvw-11ajgs1 Look it up for more specs on the drive inside. Enjoy!
1760260
Absolutely perfect for it. You can pick out the various components to suit your wallet and needs, but do NOT skimp on the RAM! And, install a second drive if possible. They're both very inexpensive if you you know where to buy them. I have always used http://www.transintl.com/macupgrades/index.cfm for my HDs and RAM.
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Amazon have been sending me the WD20EARS-00MVWB0!If you do buy it, please buy it thru my Amazon Store, its the same price and I get a small kickback from the sale.http://astore.amazon.com/brisperpag-20/detail/B002ZCXK0IGreat drive btw, use this for my main data partition and for an external backup drive on many servers.
267953
The short answer is, "it depends." The dependent factors are how much data you are going to back up, whether or not you have a SATA connection for the drive and how many generations of backup you want to maintain. With so many backup alternatives available, and for the price, you might consider one of the larger-capacity Western Digital USB-attached backup drives instead. The only reason I bought this drive is because I needed to repair an old desktop PC. It was the lowest cost alternative available.
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Sorry, I run Windows, don't do "I" products, the actual available storage is slightly less than 500GB's, so if you need 500 I'd go bigger, there is a 750 & a 1TB on Amazon
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It is but you won't get the full performance out of the drive. A Mid 2010 MBP has a SATA 1 interface and will max out at 150 MBps. The MX100 supports SATA 3 which is much faster. Even though it isn't the fastest SSD out there (still great and a fabulous price for the size) it will never show the performance it is capable of on that model MBP. That's true of any SSD though and the current price makes this a great upgrade. Note that OS X does not enable TRIM support on non Apple SSDs and you will need to download TrimEnabler or something similar to enable TRIM support and prevent degradation of performance. It is but you won't get the full performance out of the drive. A Mid 2010 MBP has a SATA 1 interface and will max out at 150 MBps. The MX100 supports SATA 3 which is much faster. Even though it isn't the fastest SSD out there (still great and a fabulous price for the size) it will never show the performance it is capable of on that model MBP. That's true of any SSD though and the current price makes this a great upgrade. Note that OS X does not enable TRIM support on non Apple SSDs and you will need to download TrimEnabler or something similar to enable TRIM support and prevent... » Read More It is but you won't get the full performance out of the drive. A Mid 2010 MBP has a SATA 1 interface and will max out at 150 MBps. The MX100 supports SATA 3 which is much faster. Even though it isn't the fastest SSD out there (still great and a fabulous price for the size) it will never show the performance it is capable of on that model MBP. That's true of any SSD though and the current price makes this a great upgrade. Note that OS X does not enable TRIM support on non Apple SSDs and you will need to download TrimEnabler or something similar to enable TRIM support and prevent degradation of performance. « Show Less
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Another internal should generally be faster, as it's not hindered by USB speeds. But whatever burns put your main drive is likely to kill the secondary drive,too. The external is good for portability, but tend to have a shorter lifespan compared to a internal drive. ( That's why people say "mine has lasted over a whole year now". My current HDD is over 4 years old now.
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Yes, it realy is 500GB. It is this capacity because it uses that extra space for additional wear leveling. This is known as over provisioning. The extra space needed for over provisioning on this drive is necessary because it is triple level cell technology. Because of this, the flash actually has less endurance than the generation before it. With the proper wear leveling though, this is compensated for, and the drive is designed to last for quite some time. If you are a heavy user (meaning professional video editing, or any other use case where you are writing more than 10GB a day everyday), you should get the pro line anyway, as that is still multi level cell, and has greater endurance. But if you do that kind of heavy work, you should probably be getting an enterprise grade drive anyway with single level cell technology. So yes, this drive is genuine and it is fantastic. It is actually close to one of the fastest drives on the market, and the only that I know of that is optimized for larger capacities. Most other brands (particularly LSISandforce drives) are designed to be fastest at ~256GB, so if you want a large drive that doesn't suffer because of it's size, this is it. Edit: BTW, there are some non-insightful posts below claiming this is because it is what you get after formatting. Know that formatting will always use some of the storage and you will end up with slightly less. But in this case, it will be actually lower than the 500GB as 500GB is what it would be raw, not after formatting. My 250GB Sansung 840 came out to about 233GB. This is also partially because, for whatever reason, the solid state world measures in Gibibytes (GiB) or 1000MiB, while the rest of the storage/computer world (except for the silly apple world) measures in Gigabytes(GB) of 1024MB.
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I took a look at the Samsung site and it is touting MLC (V-NAND) as having higher endurance (MTBF), but that doesn't jive with some papers like this :http://www.oempcworld.com/support/SLC_vs_MLC.htmMLC definitely gives you higher densities, but I'm still not sure which disks are more reliable.
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Well, I have a test tool, that shows 233.7MB/s write and 319.0MB/s read with a SSD drive in an USB 3 enclosure via an iogear USB3 hub.Most USB sticks, or SD cards are way slower than this.The USB3 hub disconnects, when Yosemite goes to sleep. Then via eSata it copies 1.4GB in less than 5s to my backup drive, not sure, if my drive is a bottleneck, but I am happy with the speeds.
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I believe the Flash Survivor may be USB 2.0 and the Stealth may be USB 3.0; I have only owned the former (and wasn't impressed, per my review - mine didn't Survive), though I've had other Corsair drives. I believe this theoretically results in faster data transfer, but I didn't notice a big difference back when mine worked.
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I don't have any experience with either of these programs, but being that it is solid state and 1Tb you should not have any storage problems. Sorry I could not be of more help.
318885
I used a 1T that I already had; it was more than enough.The external HD depends on how much data you stored in it.250 should be enough, in my opinion.
1634952
Thank you for the info, I'll take a look. By the way would you recommend a 1tb 5400rpm or a 750gb 7200rpm? Is the speed trade-off worth the space trade off? thank you
1533838
The NAS drives are more a hardware difference than software. Sure they may offer some enterprise features like secure erase in hardware, etc. but the real difference is the hardware. These drives are designed to better dampen internal generated and externally received vibrations. This design is due to the close proximity of the drives and the 24/7 operation. Check the specs and these drive typically rank between desktop and enterprise drives in terms of MTBF. They may have longer warranties as well. All-in-all it simply boils down to how much do you love your data? What is being stored on the NAS. Is it precious? I ran a DroboFS for two years with WD green drives. I replaced them with these drives thinking this was a better choice for my circumstances. The choice is ultimately yours.
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No advantage as it's an internal drive, better to use the internal SATA connectors. You would not be able to plug an external drive in later.