Product Description
Fuel your system performance with the Crucial® T500 Gen4 NVMe® SSD. Experience faster gaming and amp up your creative potential with an SSD that moves as fast as you need it to. Heavy tasks are no problem with better performance to power efficiency, and the T500 works with your laptop or desktop.
Dimension
Product Height : 0.09 inches
Product Width :0.86 inches
Product Depth :
Product Weight :0.35 ounces
Features
Lightning speeds Get incredible performance with sequential reads/writes up to 7,400/7,000MB/s and random read/writes up to 1.18/1.44M IOPs
Compatible Ready for performance with your laptop, desktop or motherboard, the T500 installs easily in your M.2 slot.
Ultimate gaming Load games up to 16% faster and get faster texture renders and less CPU utilization with Microsoft® DirectStorage
Content creation Get up to 42% faster performance in content creation apps, run heavy workloads, and render photos or videos faster
Easy to install Online tutorials, how-to guides, videos and free Acronis® True Image cloning software help you install your SSD, set it as your boot drive and migrate your data
Innovation Produced in house by Micron® with cutting-edge 232-layer TLC NAND
Spacious Store more games, UHD/8K+ media, apps, files and more with 2TB of capacity
What's Included
Reviews
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A solid entry into the NVMe space
Crucial’s T500 SSD is their competitive offering in the PCIe NVMe Gen4x4 SSD market, aligning with their new, clearer naming system exemplified by their top-tier Gen5 SSD, the T700. The T500 represents their Gen4 solution, rounding out their product lineup. Enter the T500, equipped with the Phison E25 controller, boasting Sequential Read/Write speeds of up to 7400/7000MB/s. This puts it on equal footing or even ahead of Samsung’s 980 Pro and 990 Pro, as well as WD’s SN850X. Crucial leverages their own Micron DDR4 DRAM and proprietary NAND flash, outsourcing only the controller, giving them significant control over the technology in this SSD. Performance-wise, the T500 excels, I received Sequential Read/Writes of 7400/7000 mb/s + and Random 4K of around 900/700 mb/s. The T500 is a solid entry into the nvme market from a solid brand like Crucial. It has good speeds at a very reasonable price. It’s a no-brainer for anyone looking to give their system a little love and a lot of speed.
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Excellent Upgrade Option for PCs!
My current desktop PC only had 1 TB of storage so I was desperate for more space and faster read/write speeds. This 2 TB solid state drive from Crucial was just what the doctor ordered. Before purchasing, you will want to ensure that your motherboard has an M.2 slot available. And if you already have one solid state drive installed, you will need to check if your motherboard has a second M.2 slot. If you don't have an open/usable slot, there are adapters that can be considered but you will not get the full performance benefits that solid state drives offer. You would likely be better off upgrading your motherboard in a case like that. Installation for me, however, was very smooth and simple as I had an M.2 slot ready and waiting for me. The difference between using a standard hard drive compared to a solid state drive like this one from Crucial is night and day. Particularly for gaming, I observed a huge difference in load times. Whether you are launching a game, or loading maps / new levels, everything happens significantly more quickly. I can say that I will likely never use a hard drive again, as SSDs are now cost-effective and superior in basically every way. I feel like I'm getting 5-10 minutes back in my day with how much faster everything loads. That time adds up over a year! If you are looking to expand your computer's storage space AND improve its performance, the T500 from Crucial is a great SSD to consider.
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Very Fast, Great for Gaming
The T500 is a great choice for a top of the line SSD. With synthetic read speeds around 7,000 MB/s and write speeds around 6,700 MB/s. I was able to move all of my steam games very quickly from a 2TB HDD to the SSD. Immediately I noticed faster load times in my games. Even the few games I had on a slower 5,500 MB/s loaded noticeably faster. I wouldn’t say it’s leaps and bounds vs the other SSD, but it dominated the HDD. Outside of gaming it’s easy to recommend this for anyone who moves a lot of large files such as creators who do a lot of video editing or could even be used as a cache drive for a NAS storage solution. The fast transfer speeds can allow for quick loading of videos from a micro SD card as well as let video editing software quickly load files. Installation can be a bit intimidating if you’re not comfortable with PC components, but most modern PCs and Laptops will take this drive. Installation is as simple as finding a free M.2 slot on your motherboard and slotting the drive and securing it with a screw. It may be a bit more daunting to open your laptop but many manufacturers make upgrading or adding a 2nd drive as easy as popping off the bottom panel. I would have liked to see an included screw for mounting the drive. While most PCs come with an included screw in the slot, I’ve found that some don’t. I wouldn’t recommend installing without one. It’s also nice knowing that this comes with a 5 year warranty. TRIM support, garbage collection, and other features ensure the drive lasts long and remains reliable for that time frame. I would be surprised if you didn’t get a few more years after the warranty period without any issue. Crucial also has software you can download to upgrade firmware, check drive status and health. It’s intuitive, light weight, and easy to use.
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Great NVMe M.2 Drive
The Crucial T500 2TB NVMe M.2 SSD is a quality hard drive that offers impressive performance. * Competitive benchmark scores - I ran various synthetic benchmarks on CrystalDiskMark. Using the NVMe setting, 1 run and 1 GiB test size I achieved a sequential (Q8T1) score of 6278 MB/s read and 6222 MB/s write. This is a vast improvement over my other Crucial P5 1 TB NVMe M.2 SSD which scored 3538 MB/s read and 3321 MB/s write. I achieved approximately 85% of the maximum advertised read speed and 89% of the maximum write speed. Overall, I am happy with the performance provided by this drive, especially at its price point (on sale). * Competitive real world performance - Games installed quickly onto the drive. Transferring old Steam game files only took a matter of minutes. The load times are not noticeably shorter than my other M.2 drives but still significantly faster than loading from a HDD/standard SSD. * Great warranty - Solid 5 year limited warranty included with the purchase. * Easy installation - I removed the M.2 cover on my motherboard, inserted the drive into the slot, and tightened the screw. The whole process took less than 30 seconds. Overall, the Crucial T500 2TB NVMe M.2 SSD offers great performance and a large amount of storage.
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Blazing fast speeds
This drive is insanely fast. I think the only way you can get faster is if you have a PCIe 5 system and drive. With my out of the box testing, it still came up faster than other drives I have had, but like they even state in the small print “System variations will affect measured results.” I’m sure there are other settings I could probably change on my system to try and get the results higher, but this is already twice as fast as my older 512GB drive and of course the capacity. It is so hard to fathom 2TB on something so small. As with any NVMe drive, installation is pretty straight forward. A single screw for most computer systems, some just a clip. Of course, pending what you intend to use the drive for makes the rest of the process dependent on what you are doing. If you intend for this as a main OS drive, if you have the second slot, cloning the main drive first saves so much time and effort. As a secondary drive, just mounting it and assigning a drive letter and you are up and running. Overall, this is what I expect from Crucial, a company that has been in the memory business for 25 years. Now to fast forward time 5 years or 1200 TB written and see how well this drive stands up to time and use. It certainly will get the data usage there faster than my old drive.
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A Quality Fast SSD Lacking Random Read/Write Power
This crucial T500 2TB SSD to the naked eye is a contender to lead the market on read and write speeds per their specifications and testing using CrystalDisk as a benchmarking test. I was expecting to be able to get 7400Mb/s Sequential Read, which was met, 7000Mb/s Sequential Write which it met, and a random read/write of 1,180 / 1,440 mb/s which unfortunately also fell short of in a significant manner. When I ran CrystalDisk on a fresh installation, no files on the SSD, and disabling memory integrity in Windows, the random read write just performed abysmally. I was getting about 570 mb/s Random Read, and 350 mb/s random write. That is far below the expected performance of 1,180 and 1,440. I am happy to see that the sequential read and write was spot on specification as that is what matters most with an SSD. Most tasks executed on an SSD are in sequential manner, especially if using as a secondary drive for gaming/media storage. The actions are more sequential and predictable. However if you plan on using this drive as a boot drive that is where I would personally have some concerns because as soon as you start attempting to open multiple programs and files at once on the SSD thats where the random needs to kick in and you will see a slight performance drop. Granted to most this test specification will not be noticable to most except to those power users. This is a great drive for gaming and media storage but just do your research about random read/write before committing to using as a boot drive.
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Crucial's new T500 is legit!
TLDR : Near top tier performance without the top tier $$$! Crucial has been around for a LONG time and has been a “go to” for many of my PC builds, first with their memory, and now with their SSD’s. I’ve used their SATA units many times, but this is my first foray into their NVME line. (which is crazy because I’ve been using NVME’s since 2016) At the top level, it just looks like another run of the mill 2TB higher end PCIE 4.0 drive from a reputable brand. Once you start testing it, you’ll realize that it's crazily close to the top tier (which I own a 2TB model of) of PCIE 4.0. I was able to peak at 7.1GB per second reads, and 6.8GB/s writes, and that was on the chipset fed M.2 slot on my motherboard. (Had it been directly attached to the CPU lanes, I would expect a slight increase in performance, but nothing noticeable in everyday use) A couple of its RND4K speeds in crystaldiskmark actually beat my other top tier drive. All while staying under 60c (according to HWINFO) which is crazy considering I tested it in a mini ITX box on the back PCIE slot that has little to no airflow! If you need a solid near top PCIE 4.0 NVME drive, I’d heartily recommend this Crucial!
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Wow! A night-and-day difference from Gen3 to Gen4.
The Crucial T500 Gen4 M.2 2TB SSD offers a performance/price combo that is hard to beat! Documentation indicates speeds up to 7,400 MB/s read and 7,000 MB/s write. Installing the Gen4 2TB Crucial T500 went exactly as expected (almost). I had one remaining available M.2 slot, slid the new drive into place and snugged up the screw. When I benchmarked it, I was seeing numbers about half as fast as what was expected. After consulting my motherboard’s manual, I learned that one of its four M.2 slots is Gen3 – and I found it on the first try! Go figure. The fix was easy. I swapped the new Gen4 drive with an existing Gen3 drive and I was off and running. (As an aside, I was concerned that the OS (Windows11) might have a problem with the unexpected drive/M.2 slot reassignments, but drive letters were retained and the system didn’t miss a beat.) Benchmarking the new drive in the Gen4 slot shows that I’m getting read speed at 96% of rated and write speed at 99% of rated (see image). I’ll call that good enough! I moved my Steam library from its Gen3 home to the Crucial T500 Gen4 SSD and got an immediate performance boost. I expected some noticeable improvement, but wow! Load times are significantly reduced. The biggest change has been with Starfield; load time is actually cut in half (~25 seconds vs. ~50 seconds) and the incessant loading screens between environments are noticeably shorter. I’m sold on the Crucial T500. About my setup: -
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Worth the purchase
Incredibly fast for the price. Crucial has really done it with this one.
