Crucial - T500 2TB Internal SSD PCIe Gen 4x4 NVMe M.2
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- Crucial
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- CT2000T500SSD8
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- 649528939234
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Fuel your system performance with the Crucial® T500 Gen4 NVMe® SSD. Experience faster gaming and amp up your creative potential with an SSD that moves as fast as you need it to. Heavy tasks are no problem with better performance to power efficiency, and the T500 works with your laptop or desktop.
Dimension
Product Height : 0.09 inches
Product Width :0.86 inches
Product Depth :
Product Weight :0.35 ounces
Features
Lightning speeds Get incredible performance with sequential reads/writes up to 7,400/7,000MB/s and random read/writes up to 1.18/1.44M IOPs
Compatible Ready for performance with your laptop, desktop or motherboard, the T500 installs easily in your M.2 slot.
Ultimate gaming Load games up to 16% faster and get faster texture renders and less CPU utilization with Microsoft® DirectStorage
Content creation Get up to 42% faster performance in content creation apps, run heavy workloads, and render photos or videos faster
Easy to install Online tutorials, how-to guides, videos and free Acronis® True Image cloning software help you install your SSD, set it as your boot drive and migrate your data
Innovation Produced in house by Micron® with cutting-edge 232-layer TLC NAND
Spacious Store more games, UHD/8K+ media, apps, files and more with 2TB of capacity
What's Included
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Very Fast, Great for Gaming
The T500 is a great choice for a top of the line SSD. With synthetic read speeds around 7,000 MB/s and write speeds around 6,700 MB/s. I was able to move all of my steam games very quickly from a 2TB HDD to the SSD. Immediately I noticed faster load times in my games. Even the few games I had on a slower 5,500 MB/s loaded noticeably faster. I wouldn’t say it’s leaps and bounds vs the other SSD, but it dominated the HDD. Outside of gaming it’s easy to recommend this for anyone who moves a lot of large files such as creators who do a lot of video editing or could even be used as a cache drive for a NAS storage solution. The fast transfer speeds can allow for quick loading of videos from a micro SD card as well as let video editing software quickly load files. Installation can be a bit intimidating if you’re not comfortable with PC components, but most modern PCs and Laptops will take this drive. Installation is as simple as finding a free M.2 slot on your motherboard and slotting the drive and securing it with a screw. It may be a bit more daunting to open your laptop but many manufacturers make upgrading or adding a 2nd drive as easy as popping off the bottom panel. I would have liked to see an included screw for mounting the drive. While most PCs come with an included screw in the slot, I’ve found that some don’t. I wouldn’t recommend installing without one. It’s also nice knowing that this comes with a 5 year warranty. TRIM support, garbage collection, and other features ensure the drive lasts long and remains reliable for that time frame. I would be surprised if you didn’t get a few more years after the warranty period without any issue. Crucial also has software you can download to upgrade firmware, check drive status and health. It’s intuitive, light weight, and easy to use.
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A top performing drive
As someone who is fortunate enough to own both the WD SN850X and the Samsung 990 Pro I can say confidently that the Crucial T500 is a contender and performs at the same levels trading some blows depending on the test/environment. As this is a high-end Gen 4 SSD. As seen by the specs below. Most specifically, up to 7,400 read, 7,000 write speeds, 232-layer 3D TLC NAND, Micron LPDDR4 DRAM, 1 GB per 1 TB of NAND flash, and Phison PS5025-E25 controller. Supports Microsoft Direct Storage and can be used PS5, PC, or laptop. For my testing I put it in my gaming laptop. Which is an Acer Predator Helios 16 (2023). I didn’t get max speeds, ~7,000 read and 6,900 write speeds. Which is extremely close to what I am getting with my SN850x and 990 Pro. The differences between them I don’t think is meaningful. Transferring large files (>200 GB) went quickly and stayed at high speeds throughout. Again, traded blows with both the SN850X and 990 Pro where no one was an easy winner. I didn’t have any issues with thermal throttling. But that will depend on how much of a demand you are constantly putting on it along with if you have a heat sink or not. Overall, great SSD that I have no complaints about. I can’t mention an increase in speeds or game loading times compared to my old drives as I’ve already been using high-end SSDs. But can say this is very similar and if I was doing blind testing, I wouldn’t be able to tell a difference. If you are using an HDD or a gen 3 SSD (and your PC supports a Gen 4 SSD) I highly recommend the upgrade. As there are a lot more things that are starting to utilize these faster speeds so you will see a difference in multiple aspects such as boot times, transferring large amounts of files, loading files, texture loading in games, games loading up, and loading screens to name a few. Especially, with games that support Microsoft Direct Storage. The 5-year warranty is greatly appreciated and has multiple features to keep it fresh and as fast as possible. SPECS: Built for gaming, photo/video editing and high workload applications. Gen4 high-end 2280 M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD. 232-layer 3D TLC NAND Up to 7,400 MB/s read speeds and Up to 7,000 MB/s write speeds. But this varies a bit depending on storage size. Random read/write speeds up to 1.18/1.44 IOPs 2280 M.2 SSD Supports Microsoft DirectStorage Comes with or without integrated heatsink Supports, 500 GB, 1 TB, 2 TB capacities. With a 4 TB option to be available sometime 2024. Supports PS5, desktops, and laptops. Micron LPDDR4 DRAM, 1 GB per 1 TB of NAND flash Phison PS5025-E25 Controller Microsoft DirectStorage optimized with Phison I/O+ technology 5-year warranty Static and dynamic SLC caching Redundant array of independent NAND (RAIN) Multi-layer data integrity algorithms Adaptive thermal protection Data protection for power loss events TRIM support SMART monitor technology Error Correction Code (ECC)