Product Description
Fuel your system performance with the Crucial® T500 Gen4 NVMe® SSD. Experience faster gaming – perfect for PS5 upgrades. Amp up your creative potential with solid state storage that moves as fast as you need it to. Heavy tasks are no problem with better performance to power efficiency, and our heatsink gives you quiet heat dissipation in a sleek design.
Dimension
Product Height : 0.38 inches
Product Width :0.92 inches
Product Depth :
Product Weight :1.23 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
PS5 ready Heatsink version is easy to install in your PlayStation® 5 (non-heatsink option also available)
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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Reputable brand with a great warranty
I’ve been looking into memory expansion for my PS5 for some time now. Right before getting is Crucial T500, I had to delete some games due to shortage of space. The installation of the T500 was extremely easy. Of I’ve never done this, it is super easy to do. Just make sure you get the appropriate T500 with integrated heatsink for your gaming system. Removal of the panel on the PS5 is very easy. You lift a bit and slide the panel off, and it will reveal the SSD slot. Make sure that you don’t drop the screw and locating spacer that is pre-installed on the PS5. Insert it at an angle and slowly press down into place. It’s very easy. There are plenty of YouTube videos on it. I’ve been able to download a few games on it so far. There have been no issues, or game lag, since installation. With 2tb of space, I’ve got enough room to download enough games to keep me happy for the time being. The Crucial T500 has a 5 year limited warranty! That is a big plus for me. I would definitely recommend it to anyone.
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Crucial upgrade for all systems!
The Crucial T500 is an absolute monster when it comes to Read and Write speeds , data processing, data security, machine learning and content creation. Best way to put it is this is a must for anything and everything digital in your world. I used the T500 for my PS5 and it was a breeze to install, the heat sink is the perfect size and I didn’t struggle at all inserting the drive into the expansion slot. The drive was instantly recognized by the PS5 and worked without a hitch. I know the T500 is rated at 7000+ read/write speeds under perfect conditions (usually when system is cold without anything else on the drive), I decided to do something push the drive to see how it would respond. I downloaded 2 games from PSN straight to the T500 and installed Spiderman 2 from disk to the PS5 hard drive and than moved it to the T500 (all games being 60-80 GB not including updates). After this I erased the contents of the T500 and reintroduced it to the PS5 to see how well it would perform and I was surprised that even after 3+ hours of constant use the drive was still doing over 5000+ read/write speeds which was mind blowing that after that amount of time the drive was performing at such a high level. I continued playing my PS5 after these test for 4 hours ( don’t judge me too hard) and there was no visible slowdown what so ever, load times stayed the same and no hiccups in any of the games. I even moved games back and forth from the PS5/T500 and speeds remained constant. This seems to be because of some of the best industry components, the T500 has 232-Layer NAND along with one of the best controllers from Phison. The tech behind the NAND and the controller make it so you can game/create content and anything else for hours on end without having drops in performance as you would with prior hard drives. Besides the PS5 the T500 can used to game on windows since it can utilize DirectStorage which can cut down load times from 2.5 seconds to under a second which is substantial. The T500 is a perfect storage device for all your digital needs and has a crazy 1200 terabyte endurance which means this drive wont fail you even if you added/removed 80 GB a day for over 10+ years. Overall I think this drive is great, there is very little thermal throttling and Crucial being a leader is memory give me comfort that everything on the drive you be protected for a long time.
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Yur
best thing i’ve bought, works perfectly, and i recently transferred from her to sdd and this made my computer run up so fast. i really recommend
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Fast drive with few if any caveats
The Crucial T500 is a high speed PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSD. This particular model is equipped with a heatsink that fits perfectly in a PS5, and meets the appropriate minimum requirements that Sony mandates. It’s also a great drive in general. I started with it in use on my PC, but then swapped it to my PS5 for the extra space. A generous 2TB of space is just what the gaming doctor ordered. The T500 is one of Crucial’s first 232 layer TLC drives (manufactured by micron). TLC has better write endurance than some of the cheaper QLC drives, which in this case means your 2TB drive should be able to handle a minimum of 1.2 petabytes of writes (1200 TB). Also, the drive employs 2GB of DRAM cache to help speed up reading/writing. This use of DRAM means it makes a good OS drive. The cache however hides the fairly slow TLC writing. In my tests however, I was not able to hit that, but I have seen theoretical tests that show this. If you're looking for a drive to constantly read and write large 4 or 8K video files, this might not be it. Inside the box, you’ll find the drive. It’s compact, as any m.2 drive is, but it includes a black heatsink that has decent thermal mass and cooling fins. It’s not the best heatsink design, but it handles the crucial branding well while keeping the drive at reasonable temps. I first installed it on a PCIe expansion slot adapter, as all my primary m.2 slots were filled. Initial testing showed the drive a bit slower than the claims of 7400MB/s. My crystal disk mark hit about 6300 and the PS5, when installed showed just below 6000MB/s. While not as fast as advertised, it’s still really fast, and shows the power of PCIe 4 drives, and comes in well inside what the PS5 needs. Overall, this is a good DRAM based drive with a decent amount of cache. Could you find faster drives? Yes. Can you find drives that are better for the PS5? Maybe? Can you find a better OS drive for a PC? Maybe? Overall this drive isn’t going to lead any categories, but it's faster than most at a competitive price. The use of DRAM cache makes it very attractive, and the general overall performance seems to be great. Definitely recommended.
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Consistently fast TLC SSD for an amazing price
The last few years have been tough as the DRAM-less controllers and slow TLC and QLC flash have driven SSDs prices down while performance has taken several steps back for many SSDs. I approach the review of any new SSDs with a bit of trepidation, assuming the worst before proven otherwise. The Crucial T500 is pretty impressive, however, and seems like a step in the right direction for value performance. The T500 is the second PCIe 4 SSD I've used, and the first that has DRAM for primary cache. As a result, it's pretty freaking quick. Using CrystalDiskMark on my PC, sequential reads reach 7000 MB/s and writes are over 6000MB/s, but the real boost is in the random r/w performance and latency. Read latency is reduced by 43% from my other PCIe 4 SSD, and write latency is down by 18%. Vs a very quick PCIe 3 SSD, latency is down by 60% for reads and 34% for writes. CDM also reports more than 1.1 mil read 778k write IOPS, which is just phenomenal. Those numbers lead to the kind of real world performance that improves the "seat of the pants" feel when gaming, especially with a reasonably priced SSD. The T500 I received includes a PS5-compatible heatsink to provide consistent write performance and improve longevity of the drive. It's so nice that Sony went with a standard m.2 slot for storage expansion and that drive manufacturers are so eager to include PS5 compatible heatsinks on their drives. Another plus for the T500 is that the upcharge for the model with the heatsink is miniscule, as I've seen drives from other brands that cost quite a bit more to have some cheap metal attached with heat tape. Kudos to Crucial for that.
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Great performance and capacity!
I’m very happy to have sprung for this drive. Previously, I had added a 500GB M.2 drive to my PS5, but with the size of games these days (and the fact that all games get transferred to storage) I had filled up that drive a lot more quickly than I thought I would. This drive solved that for me. 2TB seems to be a sweet spot of added storage on PS5, IMO. It’s both fairly affordable and provides enough storage to have plenty of games on hand and ready to play. Crucial’s drive was very easy to install. Simply slide off the bottom (side) panel of your PS5 and you’ll have direct access to the M.2 slot. Since digital games can be downloaded again and save files are stored on the primary console storage, swapping this drive with the one I had was very simple. I transferred some games to the new drive from console storage and downloaded the rest. - That was it! The new drive is speedy and games run smoothly, as you’d expect. Like my prior drive, games stored on M.2 storage load faster than internal storage, with mine reported with a read speed of 6272 MB/s after initial formatting on the console - that’s slightly slower than my last drive, but not by much. I’ve had several other Crucial products in the past and think of them as a reliable brand, so I also have more piece of mind in choosing their products. I couldn’t ask for more!
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Best value SSD on sale
Perfect! Easy to set up and way faster than you would need and yet still affordable
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Lots of Storage for Your PS5
The Crucial T500 2TB NVMe is a smart choice for anyone looking to upgrade the storage on their PlayStation 5. It's a relatively fast and reliable drive with plenty of storage for games and other media. I’m upgrading from a 1TB drive, so the added space is going to be very welcomed as games just keep getting bigger. Installation was a breeze, as is the case with the way Sony made the PS5. The included heatsink fits perfectly in the slot, so all you have to do is slot it in there, screw it in, and power on the PS5. Once your PS5 is powered on you’ll receive a notification to format the drive and get it ready for use. This will also run a test to measure the read speed of the drive.. This is where things got a little interesting. The drive that I was replacing reported a read speed of 6,500MB/s while the T500 reported a read speed of 5,600MB/s. I formatted it a few times just to make sure it wasn’t a fluke, but it turns out this is an accurate result. While 5,600MB/s is above the minimum 5,500MB/s that the PS5 requires, it’s still much lower than other drives on the market. The upside to this low reading is the fact that real-world performance isn’t significantly impacted. Copying games, loading games, and other general operations don’t seem any slower than with my other drive installed. I confirmed my findings with a well-known review website and they had the same results. So, don’t put too much credence in what the PS5 states the read speed is for the T500 as it won’t matter for this use case, but I do wonder why the reading isn’t higher since the drive is capable of faster speeds. The T500 is indeed capable of its advertised speeds when put into an adequately powerful computer though, you just can’t attain them on the PS5. Here are some of the pros and cons of the Crucial T500 NVMe: Pros: Good performance: The T500 NVMe advertises read speeds of up to 7,400 MB/s and write speeds of up to 7,000 MB/s. This makes it one of the fastest drives available for the PS5, in theory. However, the PS5 read test only results in a 5,600MB Reliability: The T500 NVMe is built with high-quality components and has been tested to withstand countless hours of gaming. Plenty of storage space: 2TB of space at this price is a great deal. Comes with a heatsink preinstalled. 5 Year warranty. Cons: The PS5 will only read this drive at 5,600MB/s, which puts it only slightly above the minimum read speed spec for PS5 extended storage. Overall, if the price is right and you want more storage for your PS5, the T500 gets my recommendation.
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Easy set-up and lots of storage!
Let me just say how much I love how easy this was to install. A few quick youtube videos made this installation so easy. Before I received this product I quickly looked up how to install an internal drive and how to remove the cover and voila! Easy set-up. The instructions give you a website on how to transfer software, the installation guide and firmware optimization, but I used this for our PS5 and it was so easy to install. I received this little drive in a very large package, but it was packed nice and safe. Getting back to the installation, I took the top of the ps5 off (which was a simple secure the corner and slide). I unscrewed the screw for the area where an internal drive goes. Removed the top covering, unscrewed the tiny screw and bolt, placed it in the area closest to where the drive would be (without screwing it in yet) inserted the internal drive, tightened the tiny screw I attached, placed the small cover back on top of the internal drive section and screwed the screw back in. Then I placed the top cover of the PS5 back on, plugged it in and voila it was downloading the drive. When it asks if you want to format your new drive. I clicked yes and it took about less than 5-10 minutes and it was set-up and ready to use. Now I have console storage and internal storage that keeps everything saved on the PS5 and makes it easy to move things back and forth. This is such a huge plus because now we have so much storage space that will keep our ps5 working quickly and efficiently. This was a fast, easy set-up and was not difficult at all.
