Crucial M500 SSD

usability, price, reliability, design

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

usability, price, reliability, size, design

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

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...

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,...

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...

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....

A huge storage pool at an excellent price. Hardware support for cutting-edge encryption standards

Slightly lower performance than alternatives from Samsung and Sandisk

The Crucial m500 (960GB) ($475) is an internal solid-state drive (SSD) that's priced to move and built to fly. It's the first internal SSD we've reviewed that closes in on a 1TB capacity, but after seeing the drive's overall performance, we suspect...

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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....

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

Bare-bones bundle; 3 year warranty.

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

Not the fastest on the market