Crucial M500 SSD

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alaTest has collected and analyzed 3602 reviews of Crucial M500 SSD. The average rating for this product is 4.6/5, compared to an average rating of 4.5/5 for other products in the same category for all reviews. Comments about the design and size are on the whole positive. The reliability and usability also get good feedback.

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We analyzed user and expert ratings, product age and more factors. Compared to other products in the same category the Crucial M500 SSD is awarded an overall alaScore™ of 93/100 = Excellent quality.

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Consumer review (amazon.co.uk)

Amazon.co.uk review summary for Crucial M500 SSD

alaTest has collected and analyzed 332 user reviews of Crucial M500 SSD from Amazon.co.uk. The average user rating for this product is 4.7/5, compared to an average user rating of 4.5/5 for other products in the same category on Amazon.co.uk. People are impressed by the design and reliability. The price and usability also get good feedback. There are some mixed views about the size.

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95% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

May, 2025

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Amazon.com review summary for Crucial M500 SSD

alaTest has collected and analyzed 1718 user reviews of Crucial M500 SSD from Amazon.com. The average user rating for this product is 4.6/5, compared to an average user rating of 4.5/5 for other products in the same category on Amazon.com. People are impressed by the design and size. The reliability and price are also appreciated.

usability, price, reliability, size, design

95% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

May, 2025

Expert review by : Andrew Harrison (techadvisor.co.uk)

Crucial M500 SSD review

Crucial specifies the M500 with 72 TB data writing endurance. That converts to 65 GB of writes every day for the 3-year warranty period, so providing the drive is smart enough to not write over the same cells every time, longevity should be...

Crucial has returned to the hit list of must-have SSDs with its M500. Not because it’s the fastest but because it has great multi-platform PC support, a good balance of large- and small-file transfer speeds, and an attractive price without relying on...

May, 2013

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Expert review by : MyCE (myce.com)

Crucial M500 SSD Review – A continuing evolution (14)

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...

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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,...

Jun, 2013

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Expert review by : Hardware Canucks (hardwarecanucks.com)

Crucial M500 480GB SSD Review

Crucial’s new M500 480GB is an interesting drive since it happens to be one of the first which brings relatively high performance and a large capacity to an affordable price point. This was accomplished by eschewing the SSD industry’s usual design...

Jun, 2013

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Expert review by : eteknix.com (eteknix.com)

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....

May, 2013

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Expert review by : Joel Hruska (pcmag.com)

Crucial m500 (960GB) Review

The Crucial m500 (960GB) internal solid-state drive (SSD) trades some performance for encryption capabilities and a larger pool of redundant flash.

Mar, 2014

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Expert review by : Anand Lal Shimpi (anandtech.com)

Crucial M500 SSD Giveaway: Holiday 2013

I've been a huge fan of SSDs ever since I started looking into them back in 2008. The impact to the overall PC user experience is nothing short of tremendous. Honestly, whenever I use a system without an SSD I end up frustrated at just how slow it...

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. PURCHASE DOES NOT INCREASE CHANCES OF WINNING.

Dec, 2013

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Expert review by : Anand Lal Shimpi (anandtech.com)

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

This is probably the most excited I've been about any SSD launch in quite a while. At CES this year, Crucial announced its M500 SSD - the world's first to use Micron's new 128Gbit MLC NAND die. Courtesy of the cost savings and density increase...

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....

Apr, 2013

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Expert review by : maximum pc (maximumpc.com)

Crucial M500 480GB SSD Review

Fastest drive in its class by a hair; great value.

Bare-bones bundle; 3 year warranty.

Apr, 2013

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Expert review by : PureOverclock (pureoverclock)

Crucial M500 960GB

If you need a very large capacity SSD and don't want to break the bank, then the Crucial M500 960GB is your best bet.

Sleek design; Excellent incompressible data results; Great value; Massive storage capacity

Not the fastest on the market

Oct, 2013

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Expert review by : Chris Ramseyer (tweaktown.com)

Crucial M500 240GB SSD Review

We've seen the large 960GB M500 and the smaller 120GB drives. Today we look at the sweet spot for enthusiasts and power users, the 256GB class model. Sold with 240GB of user capacity, does the mid size model suffer from the same performance issues that...

Jul, 2013

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