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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Crucial’s new M500 480GB is an interesting drive since it happens to be one of the first which brings relatively high performance and a large capacity to an affordable price point. This was accomplished by eschewing the SSD industry’s usual design phil...
Initially when SSDs were introduced, it was the clear performance choice with a premium price tag to boot. But as SSDs have become mainstream, the competition has now split into two categories – performance and value. The M500 is Crucial's attempt to offe...
Very good price, Good performance, Temperature control features, Good RAID 0 performance
Not as fast as the Samsung EVO
Unsurprisingly, RAID 0 gives a nice bump in the headline sequential read/write scores. The reads jumped from 496MB/s up to 979MB/s, while the writes rose from 440MB/s to 842MB/s. When it came to dealing with the small bitty files of everyday use though, ...
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Published: 2013-07-18, Author: Chris , review by: tweaktown.com
When asked at CES about the M500 price points, we were told the 960GB model would hit the $600 price point and the other capacity would scale from there. Although not specifically stated, I took that to mean $300 for the 480GB, $150 for the 240GB and aro...
Published: 2013-07-16, Author: Chris , review by: tweaktown.com
What a difference one-process node makes. However, the Crucial M500 240GB does in fact still suffer from low write speeds, compared to other products on the market. The 240GB model does double the performance offered by the 120GB model, but it's not like...
We've talked about the new IMFT 20nm flash on a few occasions already. This is the second review we've published with the Crucial M500, the first being the 960GB model. In the highest capacity size the M500 is a very good drive with good read and wri...
Great value for money, Good performance, Capacitors to stop drive errors with power cut, Temperature monitor
M4 series quicker in some benchmarks
Crucial's M500 series offers a glimpse of what the future might hold with the pricing of large capacity SSDs, and is a sign of how far the market has come in a short space of time. If you'd have said barely a year ago that you'd be able to buy a 480GB SS...
It's a good thing Crucial released the massive 960GB capacity size because without it the M500 series wouldn't be all that exciting. The new capacity size is exciting, but if you aren't willing to spend $600 for an SSD, I'd say it doesn't really matt...
Abstract: Last year, we remarked that prices of SSDs have fallen dramatically, to record lows even, making them more accessible to even mainstream users. In the past year, we saw prices of SSDs stabilizing and also noted several trends in the industry.Although 2013...
