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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Shocked to see these speeds for Gen 4
Crucial does it again. I have been using their little brother NVMe's (P5) in my other PCs and builds and have never failed me once. Speeds are always as advertised and performance is top tier. The T500 is their next entry into the aging Gen4 (T700 is the Gen 5 version) and I am quite surprised to see and reach speeds up to 7400+ reads. Just note when buying the drive that there is no included screw so make sure you have one on hand or there is one already on your MB. Installed on my gaming laptop and is using it for my Steam/Epic library currently. I have 0 complaints as everything loads fast and nothing studders at all. Temps range from ~30 idle to ~65 during heavy loads. Ran Crystal Disk (see pic) and constantly was getting 7400MB/s+ reads. If you have a Gen 4 NVMe slot open and are looking to add more storage or just plain upgrade, you cannot go wrong with Crucial. They have slowly started pulling me away from Samsung because of reliability and amazing Price to Performance ratio.
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Big Upgrade for HDD users
I've always heard of Crucial but never used their SSDs. The T500 is my first one from the company. My system is currently using a WD SN850X NVME for Windows, Samsung 850 EVO SSD, and my big boy WD Black 4TB HDD. This Crucial drive will alleviate some of the "pressure" on my 4TB HDD. Starting off, installation for me was very simple. I had access to my M.2 slot on my motherboard right above my graphics card. Took less then 3 minutes. Next was initializing it in Windows, and after that it was ready for work. I ran some tests using Crystal Disk Mark to get an idea of what gains I would be seeing. My current system is running an Intel 9th Gen i9, so my speeds are only PCIe Gen 3. The T500 supports Gen 4, so my results are a little lower than what they can be. But nonetheless, speeds blow my older drives out of the water. Compared to my WD NVME, the T500 sits almost the same or even better. Where the true difference lies is with my WD Black HDD. The new T500 sees speeds more than 15x that of the WD Black. It's crazy! Compared to my Samsung SSD, the T500 is more than 6x faster. I'm very happy with the results. Speed tests are great, but what counts is real world tests. I moved 5 games from the WD Black HDD to the T500, and this is where the magic happens. Loading screens are almost nonexistent. Playing Horizon Zero Dawn I saw load times drop from almost a minute to just 15 seconds or less. And with this drive being 2TB, it will hold a lot of games for years to come. For someone looking to upgrade their main drive or have extra storage for games, the T500 is one of the best drives I have used. It doesn't matter if you're using a motherboard with PCIe Gen 3 or Gen 4, you will see huge speed gains in everything that you do.
