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Pick up Crucial’s BX500 1TB SSD for £56 after a 24% discountA good price for a great value SATA SSD.
A good price for a great value SATA SSD.
Get the Crucial BX500 1TB for £56 (RRP £74)
Despite being a budget drive, the QLC NAND in the BX500 offers high peak speeds - up to 540MB/s reads and up to 500MB/s writes, which allows it to run right up to the limits of the SATA interface originally designed for hard drives. Its DRAM-less design means that performance dips in sustained read/write scenarios, but if you’re using this for media or game storage, you’ll experience this tech’s limitations less frequently than if you were using the BX500 as your Windows/Linux/macOS install drive.
Looking at the Amazon price graphs, the 1TB BX500 normally costs around £62, so this is around a £6 drop - and a historic low price for this model. Searching online, I can’t find any other drives of a similar spec (and from a reputable manufacturer rather than DestructionDarius2.totallyarealcompany) apart from theIntegral V Series at £51which offers significantly lower specs and was released in 2016, making it relatively ancient. Still, it’s also worth considering.
