Crucial (Micron) quite silently has launched the the new Crucial BX500 SSD series, a value offering. They will offer a 120, 240 and 480 GB version with writes in the 500 MB/sec and reads at the 540 M... Crucial Silently Launches BX500 SSD
Pending performance numbers and trusting Crucial's good reliability record (which should be on par with other BX drives), those prices look pretty awesome. For people who don't need the latest and greatest M.2 drive (which 99% of people don't need because there's barely no performance difference on normal use), these look like a great upgrade for a PC with a traditional hard drive.
Why would the BX have the same warranty as the MX? It wouldn't make much sense to buy the higher class version then I guess.
Wonder what sustained write performance will look like and how big SLC cache is. The Intel QLC drives are terrible once the cache is used up, like worse than an old hard drive.
Just get the BX300, almost as good as a 850 Pro. All of the BX300 line are based on MLC, 480GB model with an absurd 32GB of "SLC cache" for an MLC that doesn't need "SLC" cache. Even the 120GB will perform well at near full state compared to crappy TLC, worst the dramless models.
For reference guys this is not even TLC it is a QLC drive, probably why no review samples were sent out and just a press release copy and pasted onto sites.