Micron M500 480GB SATA Certified Refurbished.

[orson]

Hi.

Newegg has Micron M500 480GB SSD for sale for 132.99 with additional -25% with promo code EMCETFT33.
Link: Micron M500 480GB SATA 6Gbps 2.5" Internal Solid State Drive (SSD). Micron MLC NAND Flash memory MFR PART# MTFDDAK480MAV-1AE12ABYY (OEM) | Certified Refurbished. - Newegg.com
500 read/400 write
Micron MLC NAND Flash memory
Temperature sensor,
Self Encrypting Drive (SED),
Power Loss support,
Adaptive thermal monitoring,
TCG Opal Encryption 2.0,
Thermal throttling ,
S.M.A.R.T.

What do you think?

 

[Northern]

These are not new (and that would concern me) they are
Refurbished
Only 180 day warranty

 

[frogtech]

is this an enterprise drive? like a crucial m500 with diff firmware

 

[xnoodle]

No, those are crucial M500's with the latest(still broken) firmware.

You don't want to use M500/M550s with old linux kernels (3.12-3.17) that haven't been patched to blacklist these drives.
Queued trim will cause data corruption in those cases.

If you use Windows / patched Linux systems you should be fine. I have a 960gb in my desktop myself.

 

[Fritz]

Amazon has these much cheaper. $109.99 and they are new, not refurb.