Re: Suggest me a cost effective SATA SSD?

On Wed, Apr 29, 2026 at 6:09 PM Andy Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've inherited a system with a pair of these:
>
> Model Family:     Crucial/Micron Client SSDs
> Device Model:     CT4000BX500SSD1
> User Capacity:    4,000,787,030,016 bytes [4.00 TB]
>
> Their write performance is terrible. Struggling to get 20MB/s sequential
> write. Their TBW count is low so it's not an issue of excessive write
> cycles. I've searched around and established they are just really bad
> SSDs. They also don't support SMART self-tests, which seems like a
> really cheap thing to do.
>
> I'm further confident that the problem lies with these SSDs because
> there is a pair of much better SSDs in there and they perform as I would
> expect. However, the use case for this storage is for lower cost so it's
> not an option to just buy more of those.
>
> So, could anyone suggest a decent low end (consumer/prosumer market) SSD
> model that is known to work well without terrible firmware bugs under
> Linux, preferably with power loss protection? Low write endurance is
> fine. Capacity of 4TB ideally.
>
I would suggest that power loss protection be sought using a UPS - - - imo a
better idea.

HTH