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crucial SSD refresh?

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the MX500 is due for a refresh but I can't find any news, even contacting micron nobody has a clue

my thought would be early 2025 and call it the MX550
 
I read someone saying Amazon didn't have stock recently and some Amazon rep said they weren't sure what was happening but is there anything more to it?

They'd better not switch to QLC else its major benefit is lost.
 
Okatis said:
I read someone saying Amazon didn't have stock recently and some Amazon rep said they weren't sure what was happening but is there anything more to it?

They'd better not switch to QLC else its major benefit is lost.
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hopefully not but they have a new 256 layer nand flash, it won't be any faster for sata but consume less power and be like a paperweight. this allows them to have room for some buffer ram. I'd rather buy a crucial than give money to samsung, both are practically equal bench wise
 
Crucial now has the 4tb marked as end of life. I don't know if we will really see new SSD Sata drives. I keep looking since limited NVME slots, but with them costing the same as NVME it hasn't been worth picking any up.
 
At least with the latest gen consumer NVMe QLC the baseline speeds (after SLC cache exhaustion) have increased substantially. Saw independent benchmarks for the WD SN5000 and it was like ~640MBps for long write tests, compared to the old gen QLC which was ~150MBps (less than even NAS grade HDD sequential speed), with reasonable pricing.

That said very few reviews I see test at different free space points (eg: 25/50/75% full), which sometimes dramatically change the speed of long writes.

QLC for SATA SSDs OTOH (that's a lot of acronyms) was never feasible for my use cases as the baseline speeds after SLC cache exhaustion can tank to even sub 10MBps.

So I'm curious where Crucial will go with this.
 
Micron G9 NAND delivers the industry’s fastest NAND I/O transfer rate, 3.6 gigabytes per second (GB/s), they should have a refresh out in the spring, my guess they will call it the MX550 or maybe 600
 
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