Testseek.com have collected 138 expert reviews of the Crucial / Micron 2.5 inch M500 Series SATA600 and the average rating is 84%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Crucial / Micron 2.5 inch M500 Series SATA600.
May 2013
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Highest capacity light-enterprise SSD
Very low cost thanks to 128Gb 20nm NAND
Balanced performance against other client or light-enterprise SSDs
Highest capacity of any mainstream consumer SSD
Very attractive pricing
Sub $600 for 960GB
Excellent performance/cost ratio
Build Quality
Very Good Overall Performance
Features (RAIN & eDrive Support)
3 Year Warranty
Available In 960GB
Price (For Some)
A huge storage pool at an excellent price. Hardware support for cutting-edge encryption standards.
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 wa
Sleek design
Excellent incompressible data results
Great value
Massive storage capacity
Very fast 539/445 MBps read/write speed with ATTO
TCG Opal 2.0 security with 256bit AES hardware encryption
Build Quality, Very Good Overall Performance, Features (RAIN & eDrive Support), 3 Year Warranty, Available In 960GB, Price (For Some)
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The previous M4 model by Crucial/Micron was launched back in 2011 and although it offered very good read speeds (up to 500MB/s) it did lack the punch needed in write speeds (up to 260MB/s) and 4KB random IOPS performance (read 45k/write 50k) to compete wi...
Published: 2013-12-19, Author: Les , review by: thessdreview.com
As much as we want the unbelievable performance that we see in PCIe M.2 SSDs, the name of the game today is capacity and the number of e-mails received from people looking for higher capacity SSDs is amazing. As much as we see those that already have M.2...
Abstract: I feel a little silly saying this, but the Crucial M500 960GB and Samsung 840 EVO 1TB are two of the best values in the SSD market. Both drives sell for north of $500, which puts them firmly in high-end territory. However, they also have loads of storage....
With Crucial/Micron's consumer grade products, it's not all about maximum performance. Rather, it's about pricing, features and reliability. This is the philosophy that made the Crucial M4 one of the best selling SSDs to date and this is the same philosop...
Sleek design; Excellent incompressible data results; Great value; Massive storage capacity
Not the fastest on the market
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....
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Published: 2013-08-06, Author: Christopher , review by: tomshardware.com
Abstract: Micron's consumer products division, Crucial, wasn't the first brand to introduce a 1 TB SSD. But it was the first to sell one for less than a fortune, and it sports some snazzy new features to boot. We got our hands on the entire line-up to test. Idaho...
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 wa
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Let us summarise the most important positive and negative points belowPositiveOutstanding 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...
The Crucial M500 looks to bring MLC into a price-competitive position with TLC. This has paid dividends with a very low-priced SSD with decent performance. When comparing the price vs. performance of the M500 against the other top-flight SSDs in our round...
The Crucial M500 looks to bring MLC into a price-competitive position with TLC. This has paid dividends with a very low-priced SSD with decent performance. When comparing the price vs. performance of the M500 against the other top-flight SSDs in our round...
