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Posted . Owned for 7 months when reviewed.
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This drive has shown no issues and is still holding my games.
Posted . Owned for less than 1 week when reviewed.
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After using this drive for a day, I was on the fence about returning it. For those unaware, it uses QLC flash and has no DRAM buffer. Sometimes drives can get away with that, but this one really can't. It was replacing two 90% full 2TB drives, so there was a lot of data to copy over. I'm really glad I don't use or change the data on it very often. It took about 8 hours to transfer the first 1.65GB of data from the first drive, and equally as long for the second. The only reason I'm not returning it is because I only have to do that once. After a couple seconds of its SLC cache exhausting, the average speed was 20MB/s. That's not something I've seen from a storage drive since the late 90's.
Once all the data is on it, read speeds are excellent. If you are like me and have two full 2TB drives of data that doesn't change, this could be an option as long as you have 16 hours to dedicate to the initial transfer. It is a good price compared to other 4TB drives, but honestly it would have been less of a headache and less hassle to just get a traditional platter-based 4TB drive. The data transfer would have been much faster and the price per GB would have been more agreeable. Of course, you won't have the same access speed once the data is there, but overall, it would have taken a lot less of my time. My PC case doesn't have any provisions for 3.5" Sata drives at the moment, so unfortunately that wasn't really an option for me.
The day after buying this, I went to Best Buy and bought an additional 4TB drive. This time I made sure it used TLC flash (3-bits per cell) and had a DRAM cache. I've been copying over files from other drives on that one and been achieving well over 300MB/s all throughout, even accounting for when it exhausts its SLC cache. Yeah, it was appreciably more expensive than the MX500, but based on my experience yesterday, that price was completely worth it to me.
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I dont know too much about hardware but if you need to fix your PS4 i HIGHLY recommend one of these they are a bit pricey but you will be thankful you did