Crucial M500 CT120M500SSD1 120GB
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13 years ago
Today we have in our labs the latest SSD offering by Crucial, the Crucial M500 series. Announced earlier this year at CES, it is the world's first SSD series to use Micron's new 128Gbit MLC NAND die.
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13 years ago
Crucial M500 480GB SSD Review
The big news surrounding the Crucial M500 during CES this year was the shockingly low price per GB. The price of a 960GB for $599 brings the price per GB down to 63 cents. This is the lowest price on the market, and with Crucial's solid reputation in the SSD space it makes for a safe bet.
13 years ago
Crucial M500 480GB SSD Review
Crucial's M500 offers the lowest price per gigabyte for an MLC SSD with enterprise-class features not seen on typical consumer SSD data drives. With new 128Gbit MLC NAND paired with the Marvell 9187 controller the M500 should deliver great performance at a historically low price point.
13 years ago
Crucial M500 480GB SSD Review
At CES 2013 Crucial announced the release of their new M500 series SSDs. This new model was meant to replace the aging M4 series and push the SSD industry towards a more budget friendly direction.
12 years ago
Crucial M500 SSD Review – A continuing evolution (10)
Let us summarise the most important positive and negative points below: As I said at the beginning, ‘ evolution' , is the word that describes the M500 and reflects the work that Crucial has put into this drive not only to make it faster than the M4, but also implement technologies such as hardware...
Pros:
- Outstanding operation as a system drive
- Is able to achieve 80.000 IOPS without sweating
- SATA 6Gbps support
- 7mm thick SSD ready for Ultrabooks
- Hardware data encryption
- Very fast recovery from a used state
- Adaptive thermal protection
- 3 year warranty
- Very well priced
Cons:
- None
12 years ago
Clash of the terabyte titans: Crucial M500 960GB vs. Samsung 840 EVO 1TB
We've waded through a lot of performance data, and we'll indulge a couple more graphs before weighing in with our final verdict. The following scatter plots use an overall performance score derived by comparing how each drive stacks up against a common baseline.
12 years ago
Crucial M500 SATA III Solid State Drive - 240GB
My HP Pavilion has had a new lease on life. Windows starts up in about 25 seconds! A massive improvement. All apps start more quickly in Windows 7. Quite simple to install too.
12 years ago
Crucial M500 480GB SSD Review
When i first started testing SSDs (Solid State Drives) roughly 5/6 years ago even the cheapest 60GB model cost more than a 2TB HDD and although SSDs had a very large and clear advantage in read/write/access speeds over regular HDDs it wasn't until a couple of years later that consumers actually got...
Pros:
- - Build Quality
- - Very Good Overall Performance
- - Features (RAIN & eDrive Support
- - 3 Year Warranty
- - Available In 960GB
- - Price (For Some
Cons:
- - Bundle
11 years ago
Crucial M500 960GB 2.5-inch Internal SSD
Over a year ago at CES 2013, Crucial teased us with the promise of a "Terabyte-Class" SSD that was coming later that year. They were of course talking about the M500 series - and more specifically the 960GB version.
Pros:
- Exceeds rated read and write speeds
- 7mm low profile fits in many Ultrabooks and thinner laptops
- Excellent compatibility
- Decent 3 year warranty
- Massive storage (for an SSD
- Very affordable for a terabyte-class SSD
Cons:
- No desktop drive bracket included
- No software bundle included in the box for migration
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