Crucial BX500 SATA SSD review: An affordable upgrade drive

Crucial’s BX500 internal SSD offers a lot of capacity for not so much cash, along with great everyday, real-world performance. Most users will be perfectly happy with this QLC drive, as long as they don’t bang on it too hard—as in writing large amounts of data in a short period of time, or filling the drive to point where it runs out of NAND to treat as cache. At that point, write performance drops to around the hard-drive level. This review is part of our ongoing roundup of the best SSDs. Go there for information on competing products and how we tested them.To read this article in full, please click here https://www.pcworld.com/article/3613856/crucial-bx500-sata-ssd-review.html#tk.rss_all

Created 4y | Apr 16, 2021, 10:20:36 AM


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