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		bluedino on March 27, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Benchmarking Cheap SSDs for Fun, No Profit The 'expensive' SSD used for comparison is a 6-7 year old Crucial MX500 Oddly enough this test doesn't even get 300MB/s writes for the Crucial drive, where other benchmarks are 400MB/s or above for the same drive https://www.anandtech.com/show/12165/the-crucial-mx500-1tb-s...

zebracanevra on March 27, 2023 | [–]

Yes, a lot of SSD vendors scam their customers by releasing the first batch with a lot of SLC, reviews are released, and then months or years later silently swap it out with inferior flash.

404mm on March 27, 2023 | [–]

Can confirm. I still use MD500’s

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