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are you in the market for a brand new 2.5 inch SATA SSD drive well if you are then you've come to the right place because today I have five different SSDs that I'm comparing and you guys have been requesting every time I have a crucial Drive come through here you want to see it compared against the Samsung equivalents so today I've got the 860 Evo from Samsung the one terabyte version going up against the mx-5 hundred one terabyte version and I've also thrown in the pro models the 830 Pro and the 840 pro to see how they fare against these latest two SSDs and of course the previous generation from crucial def MX 300 drive which was the first introduction of their TLC based drives on their MX lineup the MX 500 doesn't really change that but it does introduce a new variant and that is the 64 layer 3d NAND technology they've also switched it up from the Marvell controller which will sorely be missed here on the channel and they've gone with a silicon motion controller now silicon motion are hitting the market very hard for controllers you'll find them on a lot of MVM a budget drives that are really fast and they're obviously giving good value and since everyone's using them they must be very competitive as an independent vendor providing controllers to companies like crucial but of course onto that main question of how will these five drives perform let's find out welcome back to tech yes City this is brand coming to you guys today with that five-way SSD showdown now recently crucial of sending the MX 500 drive and I'm just going to pull up some of the numbers here for you the performance numbers are impressive now as I said in the intro they've gone from that Marvel control up which of course when I've tested it in the past has been a very impressive controller they're going with the silicon motions 2200 series controller and after doing some tests on this it is very impressive as well it's so impressive to the point now where Samsung actually have a worthy competitor in the 2.5 inch SATA SSD market the 860 Pro going neck-and-neck with the M X 500 these are the two main drives that I'm going to focus on here today and of course I've thrown in the other results here of the 512 gigabyte 840 and 830 Pro and you can see over the years how things have aged and they've gotten better and better in the SSD market not only if prices come down but we can see here with the MX 500 with 522 megabytes per second of reeds and 466 megabytes per second of write speeds came very close with the 522 of the Samsung Evo 860 and 512 on the writes now inputs/outputs per second the maximum here was about 97 thousand on the MX 580 4500 on the rights and then comparing that to the Evo that scored a little bit higher in ninety seven thousand five hundred and the 85 thousand two hundred so Samsung do use their own in-house controller as opposed to crucial who are outsourcing it from silicon motion and moving on here with the temperature test as requirements get better over the years so do temperatures and of course power consumption this enabled the MX 500 with its aluminium casing to perform really well on these tests scoring and tying in with the Samsung 860 Evo both at 38 degrees this is with an ambient temperature of 30 degrees might add and now how I stress these is I do a 4k intense right I just load this thing up with 10 gigabytes of continuous 4k writes which really stresses the drives and the temperatures were really good on both though of course speaking of those 4k read and writes which surveys estimate that the average user would use about 90% of their SSD or even more in 4k random reading rights here we saw a Thai 43 megabytes per second on the read sides on both these drives and then 113 on the MX 500 versus a hundred and 18 on the 860 Evo 1 terabyte so a slight edge here to the Evo but what about the simulated threaded benchmarks this is where the MX 500 scored a little victory coming in with 378 megabytes per second versus 374 and then 329 versus 333 and then to top all that off the total scores in a s SSD came in at 1200 and 16 versus 1224 so really when it came down to the numbers both the MX 500 and the 860 Evo were performing neck-and-neck this was really close and it's great to see MX 500 right up there in terms of performance as you guys all the time when I look at SSDs and drugs you always tell me about how good Samsung's lineup is and to me personally when I'm doing client builds I actually do use Samsung drives a lot because they're cloning software is phenomenal and so when a client gets a drive say for instance they're going from a hard drive to an SSD it's so easy to use that Samsung software and this is where I'm gonna critique crucial a little bit they're still using the acronym software I have had problems with this in the past they're using it this time around it did work okay though I'd like to see crucial use their own in-house software as the executive software that they've recently released is phenomenal looks great it allows you to do things like monitor and also optimize your drive and even receive firmware updates for latest improvements if there are any bugs introduced with the MX 500 from its release date though of course what about the MX 300 and the 840 and 830 Pro well of course they are a little bit dated in today's standards so if you still have one of these drives you're going to have a really good experience as when I look at things when I've used hard drives in the past versus SSDs I haven't really noticed a big difference between an SSD and a better SSD versus a SSD versus a hard drive there's a massive difference when you step it up from a hard drive to an SSD and nvme drive you will notice the differences in those massive speeds when it comes to things like using maybe 100 gigabytes at one time and dropping although files into Adobe Premiere Pro otherwise known as a scratch disk but for most people who are just burning up their computer want to boot up their games really fast have a very snappy experience then the neccessity like the MX 500 or the 860 Evo are going to serve you extremely well and this is where we get down to the price so the MX 500 is coming in around 260 dollars for the one terabyte the one that I have here very impressive very hard-hitting price the Evo is about $40 more expensive now they both carry a 5 year warranty which is phenomenal and the Evo I believe has six hundred terabytes written and the mx518 undred terabytes written so they are both extremely generous terabyte written ratings of course if you're putting this thing in a server then you might want to go with the Samsung Evo six hundred terabytes though is huge I don't even know me editing 4k videos day-in day-out would use that over five years so both of them offer a really good warranty and of course the 860 Evo steps it up over the 850 Evo by offering four times the amount of terabytes written the one more thing we're going to talk about as these drives go over the years and I will point out that I absolutely love the build quality of the 830 Pro it's got a machined finish on it looks absolutely phenomenal now you may be wondering what about the old-school drives that use the MLC NAND flash banks versus now the Evo and the MX 500 which you're using TLC and what I can say here is that from the results that I've seen in the warranties offered TLC especially the 64 layer 3d nine that crucial is using that's their in-house design and also Samsung they're using their v-nand they're both phenomenal the performance figures are there the warranty and the terabytes writtens there to back it up so I can only really see this as a win for the consumer I don't really see the need now to go with MLC personally what I see here is just TLC has come such a long way now where the performance is there and we pull up the access times and we can see that the access times on both the MX 500 and the 860 Evo are the best here in today's benchmarks a really big step up for the mx-5 the MX 300 as well but what we're seeing here is just performances there the consistency is there as well the MX 500 and both the X 60 Evo perform phenomenally in the consistency tests Sophia this is a hundred gigabytes to by the way very intense test so if you're dumping a hundred gigabytes of file from your SD card for example 4k video camera footage you're not going to notice any slowdowns on both these SSDs here but another thing as well is those access times they've gotten a lot better so and the warranty is there to back it up so the TLC in 2018 or at least in 2017 late 2017 has been extremely good and it's come to the stage now where it's a seriously good contender especially for your hard-earned dollars and for the price per gigabyte there's some other last-minute things with the MX 500 itself it has 16 banks at least the one terabyte model of around about 62 gigabyte NAND flash banks it's also got a ddr3 512 megabyte burst Bank connected to the silicon Motion's controller I believe that is double the size of the previous MX 300 ultimately when it comes down to it is the mx518 the answer is by far yes it's a very solar drive great to see crucial really stepping up their game especially from their previous model everything's improved and I even liked the MX 300 as well I thought that was a great Drive they've stepped it up a notch and they're basically making it as good as it gets the 860 Evo as well you guys love Samsung and I know why because it's a seriously good drive as well especially for the money so both drives here on the bench I can recommend them both they both have a support for encryption as well if that's something you need so there's no big difference between both the 860 Evo and the MX 500 for me to justify getting one over the other except this does come in $40 cheaper the arcanist software did work this time around it is good though The Magicians software from Samsung they're cloning software does have a track record of working exceptionally well so both drives guys it's up in the air I would probably go with the MX 500 being $40 cheaper it's really good value for money crucial are definitely hitting it hard and I'd love reading your thoughts and opinions as always so let me know in the comment section below which one would you get and why and I'll catch you guys in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye