Rating 4.4 49 reviews
Manufacturer: Crucial
price $163.88
Amazon
8 years ago

Would recommend price depending, a good run SSD, if you just need a SSD

Just another SSD, average speeds and this is you get what you pay for in this one. Would recommend price depending, was a really good replacement for my gaming pc.
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The SSD Review
12 years ago

Crucial M500 M.2 NGFF SATA 3 SSD Review (480GB) – High Capacity and Power Loss Data Protection

It has been almost a year since Crucial/Micron introduced their new M500 family and, with that, came the news of what we then termed as a new Crucial M500 NGFF SSD that would be introduced to retail consumers.
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Top Ten Reviews
13 years ago

The Crucial M500 solid-state drive may be at the bottom of our lineup, but it can still hold its own. This SSD is quick and efficient and will do the job in just about any machine. A Marvell controller drives this device along with MLC flash-component technology and SATA 3 compatibility.
Pros:
  • The Crucial M500 solid-state drive is fast
  • and Crucial has fantastic help and support options
Cons:
  • This is a 2.5-inch form factor SSD that does not come with a 3.5-inch mounting kit
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Overclock
12 years ago

Affordable, awesome as an OS drive

There was nothing special or remarkable about installing the device (it did come with two mSATA sized screws tho), and consecutively installing Windows 7 Pro on it was a breeze on my Lenovo Y500.
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Hardware Info US
13 years ago

Crucial M500 480GB SSD review: Crucial m4's successor

At the CES 2013 conference earlier this year Crucial announced the successor to its popular m4 series of SSDs. The new M500 series uses the new Marvell 88SS1987 controller and Micron 20nm MLC flash memory. We had to wait a few months, but now the new M500 is finally available.
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AnandTech
13 years ago

The Crucial/Micron M500 Review (960GB, 480GB, 240GB, 120GB)

For SSDs to become more cost effective they need to implement higher density NAND, which is often at odds with performance, endurance or both. Samsung chose the endurance side of the equation, but kept performance largely intact with the vanilla 840.
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StorageReview.com
13 years ago

Crucial M500 SSD Review

The Crucial M500 (and the OEM-tailored Micron M500 ) are a new mainstream SSD family that offers a SATA 6Gb/s interface, Marvell controller, 7mm drive height and Micron's latest 20nm MLC NAND.
Pros:
  • Highest capacity of any mainstream consumer SSD
  • Very attractive pricing
  • sub $600 for 960GB
  • Excellent performance/cost ratio
Cons:
  • Corsair Neutron GTX
  • Intel SSD 520
  • Samsung SSD 840 Pro
  • Plextor PX-M5S
  • Crucial m4
  • OCZ Vector
  • Highest capacity of any mainstream consumer SSD
  • Very attractive pricing
  • sub $600 for 960GB
  • Excellent performance/cost ratio
  • Weaker performance than other mainstream SSDs
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Legit Reviews
13 years ago

Crucial M500 480GB Solid-State Drive Review

The M500 Series from Crucial won't win any extreme performance awards but it's certainly fast enough for virtually anyone and the price per usable GB of the 480Gb and 960GB drives is extremely attractive.
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The Register
13 years ago

Review: Crucial M500 960GB SSD

But even the blue-hued chip giant must have been somewhat surprised by just how cutthroat this SSD marketplace has become. While SSDs may never quite reach parity with HDDs when it comes to price per gigabyte, they have become sufficiently less expensive to make the combination of a small SDD (for...
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eteknix.com
13 years ago

Crucial M500 480GB SSD Review

On the broad scale, there is quite a substantial gap between solid state drives that offer up massive storage capacities and those that offer blazing performance, making the process of choosing a drive that offers both to a certain extent rather hard.
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