I did not purchase it, just sharing it was cheap during that sale

What's good SATA SSD with DRAM nowadays?
Looking for 1TB

MX500 stopped production. Only left Samsung 870 Evo and Kingston KC600 which is overpriced.

Taiwanese brand..

DRAMless trash with potential side of QLC garbage.

Only one reasonably priced one left

Transcend SSD230S

basically same internals as Crucial MX500, but MX500 is EoL already

KC600 so many fakes in Shopee/Lazada

All popular SSDs have fakes you just have to buy from reputable sellers. Then you sure to get ori.

Hi all , any m2 SSD recommend for support mobo ROG STRIX Z370-F GAMING ? currently has 500GB i looking for add another 1/2TB storage. any recommendation ?

Your mobo only up to Gen3 x4. Primary boot OS drive? If want just ngam, Adata SX8200Pro or Crucial P3 Plus. If want overkill can go for Gen4 x4 SSD with DRAM ie P5 Plus, S70 Blade.

For storage... I would consider TeamGroup MP44L

The current 500Gb is my only primary boot OS drive .. looking for another m.2 for gaming purposes .

Just for storage then? No fight, NV2 if still can get or NV3 or go whichever cheapest

very sad news, SATA is still my friend ...

If you ady have a good SSD as primary boot OS drive and just want SATA SSD as storage, just about any capalang but branded drive will do just fine ie Kingston A400. Just make sure you get ori.

Normally 1TB drive usable is 931GB,
Transend 230S that i use 1TB usable is 953GB, got extra a bit

But is slow down about 85% full, as i got post before

This post has been edited by PJng: Apr 11 2025, 02:21 PM

shit happened to some of my transcend mte220s 2tb. they kept showing bad sectors. since data are backed up regularly, nothing was lost.

here is the interesting part: after i did a diskpart > clean all to them, error messages that report bad sectors stopped, and there is no more corrupted files. their lifespan is still 100% according to crystal diskinfo.

so, if your ssds are working, but keep reporting bad sector errors, it's good to try diskpart > clean all (or secure erase) to see if it can bring them back to normal haha

Actually SSD got 2 percentage, health and available spare, what is available spare?

If your being using, no way it can go back to '100%' thats physically not possible. Its likely your SSD really is failing but doing a diskwipe just resets its status but the physical damage is still there. Sooner than later the bad sectors will pop up again or worse starts to corrupt your data and sudden death w/o warning cuz you reseted its error reporting.

Imho its time to replace them.

(Quite surprised it can fail so soon as advertised it has skyhigh MTBF & TBW, maybe its the controller thats dying or something).

Spare is what it says; spare NAND to replace failing ones. Unformatted free space also works the same to give additional spares.