Testseek.com have collected 93 expert reviews of the Crucial / Micron 2.5 inch BX500 Series SATA600 and the average rating is 74%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Crucial / Micron 2.5 inch BX500 Series SATA600.
July 2019
(74%)
93 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
(94%)
44 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
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The editors liked
Great Performance
SATA 6 Compliant
96-Layer 3D NAND
Available in Sizes up to 960GB
More Storage Less Cost
Included Imaging Software
Performance (Compared To HDDs)
Features (NANDXtend / SLC Write Caching / DevSleep)
Crucial Storage Executive Software
3 Year Warranty
Price
Great Sequential Read/Write Speeds
Free Acronis True Image Software
Significantly Faster Than a HDD
Highly Affordable
Three-Years Warranty
High performance to price ratio
Inexpensive
High compatibility
Momentum Cache
3-year warranty
Strong sequential burst performance
Low cost
Supporting software
On-point testing results for a value-minded SATA drive
Four capacities to choose among
Comprehensive drive dashboard
Good everyday performance
Low price per gigabyte
Very cheap drive from a proper brand
Mostly good specifications
Extremely affordable
Just 17 cents per GB
Excellent sequential read and write performance
Solid real-life application performance
DRAM-less design reduces cost
The editors didn't like
TLC NAND
Wear rates are pretty high
Overall Performance Levels (DRAM-Less Design)
Plastic Enclosure (Temperatures)
Available Capacities (120/240/480GB)
Not Available In The M.2 Form Factor
Low Random Write Speeds
Limited To 480GB Max Capacity
Crucial's SSDs have always been competitively priced compared to the competition and the BX500 is no exception. At $80
The BX500 480GB is affordable but not by much compared to the MX500 500GB whic
Nothing worth to mention
Performance in random operations could be higher
Lower than average application performance
Low endurance
Low sustained write performance
Three-year
Versus five-year
Warranty
Lower "total writes" rating than competing drives from Crucial
Few ancillary features
Slows drastically when secondary cache runs out
Minimal SLC cache and no DRAM kills performance
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Weak random writes
High read latency
Only available in capacities up to 480 GB
Very large writes (>30 GB) see significant speed drop
We recommend this QLC drive in the larger capacities for those that want good everyday performance for a budget price. The smaller capacities will likely run into more slowdowns during heavy writes...
Published: 2019-11-27, Author: stefan , review by: madshrimps.be
BX500 is one of the most affordable 2.5'' SSDs you can get for the capacity and includes a 3-year warranty with 240 TBW of write endurance. While there is no DRAM cache standalone on the board, the 96-layer 3D NAND TLC packages do include SLC for caching...
Published: 2019-06-06, Author: Michael , review by: phoronix.com
Abstract: With falling memory prices, there's multiple solid-state drives available for around the $30 USD price point that offer 240~256GB capacities. Here are benchmarks of five such drives, four of which are SATA 3.0 SSDs and even one NVMe SSD. There are also co...
Published: 2019-05-17, Author: Paul , review by: modders-inc.com
Abstract: In today's market, SSDs are becoming so cheap that they are much less of a luxury and more of a standard. Both SATA and NVMe SSDs have come down in price. SSDs, in general, have become so affordable that it's now possible to replace all your mechanical ha...
Great Performance, SATA 6 Compliant, 96-Layer 3D NAND, Available in Sizes up to 960GB, More Storage Less Cost, Included Imaging Software
TLC NAND, Wear rates are pretty high
In this review we took a look at the Crucial BX500 SATA SSD. The BX series is an interesting line from Crucial as they have taken a different approach to how SSD drives are built and sold. On the surface they appear to be more affordable however when you...
High performance to price ratio, Inexpensive, High compatibility, Momentum Cache, 3-year warranty
Performance in random operations could be higher,
Crucial BX500 is a great option if we are considering an upgrade from an HDD to SSD but we don't have a high budget. Especially 960GB version is interesting if we are using a laptop which supports only one drive and we still have more data.A refreshed lin...
Published: 2019-02-20, Author: Chris , review by: pcmag.com
On-point testing results for a value-minded SATA drive, Four capacities to choose among, Comprehensive drive dashboard,
Three-year, versus five-year, warranty, Lower "total writes" rating than competing drives from Crucial, Few ancillary features
The Crucial BX500 is a solid, budget-friendly 2.5-inch SATA SSD with a value bent, but at our test capacity, the company's own MX500 is a better choice for most...
Published: 2019-02-05, Author: Alex , review by: modders-inc.com
Abstract: Crucial has been into memory and SSD business for a long time. Their most affordable line of performance SSDs is labeled as “BX”. Crucial's latest addition to the BX line is BX500. BX500 Is a 2.5” based SATA SSD that is offered in multiple capacities star...
Abstract: Crucial has updated their packaging, it's smaller in size, you don't see the drive at the front, but still it looks elegant, plus you have all the necessary information about the drive. I like this new design.The front of the box.The back of the box.After...
