Crucial MX500 250GB M.2 OR WD Blue 250GB M.2

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rcald2000

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I need a few new SSD's. One for my four year old Lenovo laptop, and another for my Dell Micro PC. I don't plan to purchase anymore 2.5" form factor drives, so I'm going with M.2; I have an adapter. My main considerations are reliability first and performance second. Thank you.

Crucial MX500 M.2 2280 250GB SATA III 3D NAND Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CT250MX500SSD4
$67.82
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820156176

WD Blue 3D NAND 250GB PC SSD - SATA III 6 Gb/s M.2 2280 Solid State Drive - WDS250G2B0B
$62.99
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820250090

Addendum question:

I noticed that Crucial has a firmware updating utility called Storage Executive, but where is Western Digital's utility? The one I found on their site only applies to hard drives.

http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/support-ssd?cm_re=top-nav-_-flyout-support-_-us-support-product-support-ssd
 
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I have 2 laptops with the MX500 M.2 drives and they work great. not sure about speeds etc.. but boot is great.. opening stuff is great. I don't have any access to the WD ones or I would do some real tests. but yea I would just go with what ever brand you like better.. (the manufacture specs are similar.. other then the mx500 has a little on paper faster on some things and has also on paper 1.8 MTBF vs 1.75 so it should according to them last longer.
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I have 2 laptops with the MX500 M.2 drives and they work great. not sure about speeds etc.. but boot is great.. opening stuff is great. I don't have any access to the WD ones or I would do some real tests. but yea I would just go with what ever brand you like better.. (the manufacture specs are similar.. other then the mx500 has a little on paper faster on some things and has also on paper 1.8 MTBF vs 1.75 so it should according to them last longer.
 
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rcald2000

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envy14tpe / Doctor Rob I thank you both for your counsel. I opted for a new choice: Intel 660p 512GB. It's a recent QLC NVMe SSD, that's set at the same price point as high-end SATA SSDs:

[video] Podcast #509 - Threadripper 2950X/2990WX, Multiple QLC SSDs, and more!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhmc2BYA_yQ&t=32m53s

[written article] Intel SSD 660p 1TB SSD Review - QLC Goes Mainstream
https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Storage/Intel-SSD-660p-1TB-SSD-Review-QLC-Goes-Mainstream

Intel 660p Series M.2 2280 512GB PCI-Express 3.0 x4 3D NAND Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) SSDPEKNW512G8XT
$99.99
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167460
 
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