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
(84%)
138 Reviews
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776 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
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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
Published: 2013-04-09, Author: Les , review by: thessdreview.com
The Micron/Crucial Team must have one day sat down and decided they were going to produce an SSD with the best of everything. They have exceeded expectations, not only in value that everybody expected but also, in performance, enterprise features as well ...
Very fast 539/445 MBps read/write speed with ATTO, TCG Opal 2.0 security with 256bit AES hardware encryption, Marvell 88SS9187 controller supports TRIM, NCQ, and Windows 8 drive telemetry, 3Year Micron Technology product warranty support, 120/240/480/960GB highspeed SSD storage capacities, Device sleep (DEVSLP) function extends battery life, Delivers nearly 63K IOMeter IOPS performance, L
Some manufacturers offer fiveyear warranty, Highend performance only available from 480/960GB versions, Expensive enthusiastlevel product
IMPORTANT: Although the rating and final score mentioned in this conclusion are made to be as objective as possible, please be advised that every author perceives these factors differently at various points in time. While we each do our best to ensure...
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Published: 2014-02-07, Author: Benjamin , review by: Bcchardware.com
Exceeds rated read and write speeds, 7mm low profile fits in many Ultrabooks and thinner laptops, Excellent compatibility, Decent 3 year warranty, Massive storage (for an SSD), Very affordable for a terabyte-class SSD
No desktop drive bracket included, No software bundle included in the box for migration
I've been looking forward to trying out the Crucial M500 for a while now. While I have been using a smaller one in a different production machine, there is something about a "terabyte class" SSD that makes most computer enthusiasts hearts beat a bit faste...
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 phil...
Initially when SSDs were introduced, it was the clear performance choice with a premium price tag to boot. But as SSDs have become mainstream, the competition has now split into two categories – performance and value. The M500 is Crucial's attempt to offe...
Very good price, Good performance, Temperature control features, Good RAID 0 performance
Not as fast as the Samsung EVO
Unsurprisingly, RAID 0 gives a nice bump in the headline sequential read/write scores. The reads jumped from 496MB/s up to 979MB/s, while the writes rose from 440MB/s to 842MB/s. When it came to dealing with the small bitty files of everyday use though, ...
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Published: 2013-07-18, Author: Chris , review by: tweaktown.com
When asked at CES about the M500 price points, we were told the 960GB model would hit the $600 price point and the other capacity would scale from there. Although not specifically stated, I took that to mean $300 for the 480GB, $150 for the 240GB and aro...
Published: 2013-07-16, Author: Chris , review by: tweaktown.com
What a difference one-process node makes. However, the Crucial M500 240GB does in fact still suffer from low write speeds, compared to other products on the market. The 240GB model does double the performance offered by the 120GB model, but it's not like...
We've talked about the new IMFT 20nm flash on a few occasions already. This is the second review we've published with the Crucial M500, the first being the 960GB model. In the highest capacity size the M500 is a very good drive with good read and wri...
Great value for money, Good performance, Capacitors to stop drive errors with power cut, Temperature monitor
M4 series quicker in some benchmarks
Crucial's M500 series offers a glimpse of what the future might hold with the pricing of large capacity SSDs, and is a sign of how far the market has come in a short space of time. If you'd have said barely a year ago that you'd be able to buy a 480GB SS...
