Testseek.com have collected 219 expert reviews of the Crucial / Micron 2.5 inch MX500 Series SATA600 and the average rating is 91%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Crucial / Micron 2.5 inch MX500 Series SATA600.
January 2018
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Great Performance
SATA 6 Compliant
3D TLC NAND
Available in Sizes up to 2TB
Available in M.2
More Storage Less Cost
Included Imaging Software
Solid Performance
Great Design
Excellent Price
Solid overall performance and performance consistency
The new MX500 series will be king of the budget. It does so while offering solid performance in the 400/500MB write ranges as well and comes with proper endurance levels, neither does it seem to suffer from the TLC write hole (slowing down once caches run...
Solid overall performance and performance consistency, Competitive endurance, Good cost/GB
TRIM-related performance issues
The SSD market certainly needed a good kick in the pricing, and the MX500 has certainly delivered. While we haven't seen products out in the open, the 1TB MX500 is available directly from Crucial at their stated MSRP. What do you get for your money? A sol...
Published: 2017-12-19, Author: Billy , review by: anandtech.com
Most of the time, it seems like all the interesting new developments in the SSD market are in the NVMe segment, while SATA SSDs are stuck with the same performance limits and decreasing endurance. The Crucial MX500 bucks the trend by setting several surpr...
Outstanding price-per-GB, Large capacity, Great price/performance, 5-year warranty, Encryption, Power-loss protection, 7 mm thin—Ultrabook compatible, Acronis TrueImage HD included (via Crucial website)
TLC not trusted by as many users as MLC, Slightly reduced performance in mixed random accesses
The Crucial MX500 1 TB SSD is currently available online for $260. Outstanding price-per-GB Large capacity Great price/performance 5-year warranty Encryption Power-loss protection 7 mm thin—Ultrabook compatible Acronis TrueImage HD included (via Cr...
Published: 2017-12-19, Author: Sean , review by: thessdreview.com
Performance, features, accessories, price, and warranty? Where do we begin? The Crucial MX500 has a superb mix of all of these. Performance has improved a from the previous model. All capacities of the MX500 series are rated at 560MB/s read and 510MB/s wr...
Published: 2017-12-18, Author: Chris , review by: tomshardware.com
Competitive performance, Competitive pricing, Fiveyear warranty, Long endurance rating, Excellent software package, Host power failure protection
The look appears dated
The Crucial MX500 1TB is the product to buy in the 1TB SATA SSD space. It checks all of the feature boxes like the previous MX series products, but this new edition focuses on performance. The MX500 is a true competitor to the Samsung 850 EVO 1TB and...
Published: 2018-03-09, Author: Jonathan , review by: aphnetworks.com
Featuring the same Silicon Motion SM2258 controller found in theBX300and Micron's latest 256Gb 64-layer 3D TLC NAND ICs, did the MX500 deliver a new level of balance in performance, features, and price? Going through all three factors, I have to say I am...
Abstract: Coming off our review of the 2TB BX500, we switch gears to the flagship MX series with the fourth generation MX500.The MX500 has been the flagship SATA solution for Crucial for several years, and in that time, the price has come down considerably. That sa...
"The MX500 is our new SATA 1Tb drive of choice."...
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Published: 2018-02-12, Author: Jason , review by: techau.com.au
Read speeds, Write speeds, Value for money
2TB still a big premium
This 1TB Crucial MX500 SSD offers amazing speeds at a great price and storage size. The 2TB drive is still a healthy premium and will likely be some time before that becomes the default option. If you're a creative person who runs the Adobe Creative Cloud...
