Testseek.com have collected 219 expert reviews of the Crucial / Micron 2.5 inch MX500 Series SATA600 and the average rating is 91%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Crucial / Micron 2.5 inch MX500 Series SATA600.
January 2018
(91%)
219 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
It is funny how the mind works. A 2.5" regular SSD showing the perf numbers we've seen today, would be considered fast. However, on M.2, that same result set all of the sudden feels, or seems, slow? Weird huh? Yeah, an M2 SSD at these read/write levels is...
Available in 250GB, 500GB, 1TB and 2TB capacities, Silicon Motion SM2258 controller, Micron 64-layer 3D TLC NAND, Good sequential and random read and write performance, Dynamic Write Acceleration, Data Defense and RAIN technologies, AES 256-bit full disk
Write speed drops when SLC cache is full
If you read our review of Crucial's 1TB MX500 SSD, you already knew that it's one of the better mainstream drives on the market today. The MX500 combines Silicon Motion's SM2258 controller with Micron's new 64-layer 3D TLC NAND to deliver good performance...
Outstanding price-per-GB, Great price/performance, 5-year warranty, Encryption, Power-loss protection, 7 mm thin—Ultrabook compatible, Acronis TrueImage HD included (via Crucial website)
TLC not trusted by as many users as MLC, Slightly reduced performance in mixed random accesses
The Crucial MX500 500 GB SSD is currently available online for $125. Outstanding price-per-GB Great price/performance 5-year warranty Encryption Power-loss protection 7 mm thin—Ultrabook compatible Acronis TrueImage HD included (via Crucial website) TLC n...
Published: 2018-04-02, Author: Bình , review by: topnewreview.com
Abstract: Technologically speaking, the SATA SSD market has been pretty stagnant over the last couple of years. NAND flash shortages in 2017 have also somewhat bottlenecked the industry. The rise of PCI Express based NVMe drives with their performance advantages me...
Published: 2018-03-26, Author: Tony , review by: Techreport.com
Crucial's MX500 duo delivers just the sort of performance we expect out of an enthusiast SATA drive. Read speeds and sustained write speeds are much improved over the MX300, but burst writes and load times weren't quite so clear of a victory. On the whol...
Published: 2018-03-09, Author: stefan , review by: madshrimps.be
Conclusive ThoughtsConsidering the fact that the MX500 SSD does feature TLC NAND packages, we were expecting a sudden performance drop after the buffers have been filled, but fortunately it was not the case! The drive succeeded to maintain write speeds ar...
The MX500 does an amazing job of balancing an affordable price with top notch performance in its class. We highly recommend it as a pick for your storage solutions...
Great Performance, SATA 6 Compliant, 3D TLC NAND, Available in Sizes up to 2TB, Available in M.2, More Storage Less Cost, Included Imaging Software
No NVMe Version. Yet,
Shopping for a SSD can be a little confusing. For instance do you focus on storage capacity and price or do you look at performance and pick the best one. As you may have noticed I included two very similar drives in this review both using Micron 3D NAND...
