Storage Solutions SATA SSD - is BX500 good enough ?

I have one, and I'm using it mainly for games, and as a backup drive for photos. It's been running smoothly for the last 2 years.
Good enough depends on your expectations. For me, it's fast enough, and I think it'll last at a long time, but who can say for sure.
 
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_kit3_ said:
looking for sata ssd, is bx500 good enough long term, its dram less but will only be used for gaming.
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Have been using a couple of them oldest one over 3 years as main drive with windows on my laptop, no issues it works great. They are durable and reliable.
 
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thanks for the help, i guess i will go ahead with it.
one more thing, if i do end up buying sa510 or mx500 both with dram, am i getting anything extra other than maybe longer life, i just need the drive to not die in 3 years with 1 or 2 games installed every 2 months.
 
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I have seen BX500 being the bottleneck in a 3700X + 2070S rig as an OS drive. If you have a relatively powerful PC, new games with SSD as mandatory requirements might stutter because they are optimised for 5000MBps SSD as present in PS5, not a much weaker low tier SATA SSD. Gen3 NVMe is fine for most games, so people don't necessarily need Gen4 NVMe or see a difference upgrading from Gen3 to Gen4. For older games, BX500 is definitely not an issue.
 
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thanks for the help, i guess i will go ahead with it.
one more thing, if i do end up buying sa510 or mx500 both with dram, am i getting anything extra other than maybe longer life, i just need the drive to not die in 3 years with 1 or 2 games installed every 2 months.
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I have a used but perfect 850 evo 550gb dram drive that I can consider selling for 1k less than new. Btw dram less drive will not die, dont worry about it.
 
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I have been using the BX500 since the last 2 years, and snagged a couple more today. Very reliable, at least for the basic usage that I have.
 
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I have a BX500 which is used for running older (ish) games. Reliable drive for the last 2 years. As long as you don't fill it to the brim (write operations will take a huge hit, in that instance), it'll serve you just fine.
 
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OMEGA44-XT said:
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I have seen BX500 being the bottleneck in a 3700X + 2070S rig as an OS drive. If you have a relatively powerful PC, new games with SSD as mandatory requirements might stutter because they are optimised for 5000MBps SSD as present in PS5, not a much weaker low tier SATA SSD. Gen3 NVMe is fine for most games, so people don't necessarily need Gen4 NVMe or see a difference upgrading from Gen3 to Gen4. For older games, BX500 is definitely not an issue
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it is a mid to high end build, OS is on nvme and no more slots avaiable for it, thus looking for sata ssd only for games, most are going to be modern 100+ or close to 100 gb games.
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I have a used but perfect 850 evo 550gb dram drive that I can consider selling for 1k less than new. Btw dram less drive will not die, dont worry about it.
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thanks for the offer but i need a tb atleast.
 
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Black_Hawk said:
Is the Crucial BX500 series good for gaming? I'm currently running a Samsung EVO for games but would like to upgrade to a 1TB SSD.
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It is alright as long as installed games don't require a large update often. Basically, BX500 has good read speeds but below avg write speeds once cache is filled (cache is around 1/4th of free space in drive).
 
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