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.

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

No desktop drive bracket included; No software bundle included in the box for migration

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...

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

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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.

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.