Testseek.co.uk 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
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
(89%)
773 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
840100138
The editors liked
Huge 960GB capacity
Attractive pricing
Capable allround performance
Encrypted Hard Drive support
Available in mSATA and M.2. form factors
Great value for money
Good performance
Capacitors to stop drive errors with power cut
Temperature monitor
Very good price
Temperature control features
Good RAID 0 performance
A huge value
For
Money storage pool
Cutting
Edge encryption
Smart data redundancy capabilities
The editors didn't like
120GB and 240GB models inherently hamstrung
Faster drives are readily available
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Crucial M500 SSD (960GB)
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The Crucial M500 SSD is available to purchase from Scan Computers
Published: 2013-05-18, Author: Mark , review by: micromart.co.uk
Abstract: Crucial doesn't normally make the quickest SSD drives. That crown wanders between Samsung, IBM and OCZ, and occasionally others. But what it generally does do is make drives that are fast enough, but also priced for a wider audience. That's what made the ...
On the broad scale, there is quite a substantial gap between solid state drives that offer up massive storage capacities and those that offer blazing performance, making the process of choosing a drive that offers both to a certain extent rather hard. Ove...
Crucial's M500 SSD series has some interesting and forward-thinking technology built in, and it's the first family of solid-state drives that uses the latest 128Gb NAND chip technology. The flagship 960GB drive is the real star of the family. It's one of...
The Crucial M500 doesn't set any new benchmark records, but that's also not what Crucial set out to do. Nevertheless, the Crucial M500 480 GB is one of the fastest SSDs in this segment. It has an AS SSD score of more than 1040 points and a PCMark Vantag...
One of the things we always like to see on a SSD is a good solid casing and Crucial don't disappoint here. We appreciate that a drive tucked away in a system isn't likely to get damaged but the metal gives a feel of quality and shows that the manufacturer...
One of the things we always like to see on a SSD is a good solid casing and Crucial don't disappoint here. We appreciate that a drive tucked away in a system isn't likely to get damaged but the metal gives a feel of quality and shows that the manufacturer...
Build Quality, Very Good Overall Performance, Features (RAIN & eDrive Support), 3 Year Warranty, Available In 960GB, Price (For Some)
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The previous M4 model by Crucial/Micron was launched back in 2011 and although it offered very good read speeds (up to 500MB/s) it did lack the punch needed in write speeds (up to 260MB/s) and 4KB random IOPS performance (read 45k/write 50k) to compete wi...
Published: 2013-12-19, Author: Les , review by: thessdreview.com
As much as we want the unbelievable performance that we see in PCIe M.2 SSDs, the name of the game today is capacity and the number of e-mails received from people looking for higher capacity SSDs is amazing. As much as we see those that already have M.2...
