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
Abstract: Today we have in our labs the latest SSD offering by Crucial, the Crucial M500 series. Announced earlier this year at CES, it is the world's first SSD series to use Micron's new 128Gbit MLC NAND die. The move to 20nm MLC NAND with a larger 128Gbit die ...
Great pricing, 7.5 mm thin—Ultrabook compatible, Adapter for 9.5 mm drives included, Supports TRIM, 3-year warranty
Can't find anything wrong
The Crucial M500 480 GB SSD is available online for $395. Great pricing 7.5 mm thin—Ultrabook compatible Adapter for 9.5 mm drives included Supports TRIM 3-year warranty Can't find anything wrong 9.4 Crucial has been in the SSD market for a while now, and...
Published: 2013-04-26, Author: Joe , review by: legitreviews.com
The M500 Series from Crucial won't win any extreme performance awards but it's certainly fast enough for virtually anyone and the price per usable GB of the 480Gb and 960GB drives is extremely attractive....
The Crucial M500 fundamentally changes the math for SSD performance. It's not so much the drive as the underlying 128Gb NAND chips, which have double the capacity of the flash dies used in most other SSDs. Since SSD controllers rely on parallelism to extr...
The Crucial M500 fundamentally changes the math for SSD performance. It's not so much the drive as the underlying 128Gb NAND chips, which have double the capacity of the flash dies used in most other SSDs. Since SSD controllers rely on parallelism to ext...
Highest capacity of any mainstream consumer SSD, Very attractive pricing, sub $600 for 960GB, Excellent performance/cost ratio
Weaker performance than other mainstream SSDs
The Crucial M500 is the first consumer SSD model offering a near-terabyte capacity, and it does so while still providing solid performance and an extremely low price point...
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. Give...
We come to the end of the review, and Crucial certainly left a big impression. They delivered on every promise and advertised value since the M500 was announced months ago. It is still a tad unbelievable that a 960GB SSD of this calibre is only $600. It ...
