(Review written by item recipient not by above account holder)
Fast and reliable drive at a great price/GB price point. I've owned SLC, MLC, and TLC drives before but this TLC is certainly the fastest. Due to the blue PCB and Micron DRAM It appears to be manufactured by Crucial/Micron so it could be a larger variant of the MX200 mSATA but with the Marvell controller chip the BX200 uses. The NAND though is Sandisk's "6th generation 15nm TLC" which is jointly manufactured with Toshiba. With 320TBW lifespan, this should last a long time. Sandisk's tool also can show any bad cells on the drive (this is normal on every drive, even hard disks - they always have spare to account for minor flaws but I've never seen an SSD expose this value to users. mine came with 47).
From my tests the drive gets about 530MB/s read and 300ish write (sustained write seemed to hold steady at around 300 unlike a lot of other TLC based drives that slow to a crawl).
The only downside is that it's still SATA. PCIe based ones aren't as good price/GB but it's questionable how much faster this drive could go on PCIe anyways. The performance is still great, but if you spend more (with supported system or PCIe to mPCIe card) you can get a much faster M.2 SSD
| Hard Drive | 1 TB Serial ATA-600 |
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