Originally Posted by AudioTrack
I hope that I'm not tempting fate, but I have only ever used Crucial in my systems, and never encountered any issues.

Micron is very good about their Crucial brand. I bought a hundred of the 2TB MX300 for a school district a number of years ago. After they were discontinued, I had two showing signs of imminent failure within the 3 yr warranty period (I routinely tested every drive during the summer break) and they were replaced right away. I then contacted them about my concern that it would be another year before I tested the rest. They sent me 98 of the 5 yr MX500 drives and recommended that I replace them all—which I did—and provided a shipping label for return to their Nampa, Idaho service center. Although the remainder of that 3 yr warranty was all that would have applied, not one of those MX500s ever failed to my knowledge. I still have a pair of MX500s in my laptops.

That was a nice part-time gig for me but I gave it up as part of my retirement 3 years ago. All of those machines have since been sold but I do hear from many of the teachers who bought them. Still haven't seen an MX500 fail.

I now recommend the Crucial P3+ m.2 NVMe blade over the WD/SanDisk but only because they are less expensive here. A current generation 4TB NVMe4 x4 Blue is $279 while the P3 Plus is $236. There is no difference in performance or warranty.

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