Testseek.co.uk have collected 219 expert reviews of the Crucial / Micron 2.5 inch MX500 Series SATA600 and the average rating is 91%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Crucial / Micron 2.5 inch MX500 Series SATA600.
January 2018
(91%)
219 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
(96%)
2272 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
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The editors liked
Very attractive price
Five-year warranty
Power-loss immunity
Robust endurance claims
Latest Micron 3D NAND technology
Large capacity options
Plenty of features
Including NAND-integrated power-loss protection
Impressive performance
Low asking price
Hardware-based encryption with AES 256-bit
5-year warranty
Competitive pricing
Good performance
Included software is useful
Long lifespan with high TBW rating
Steady performance
Impressive feature set
Large capacity and multiple form factors
Cloning software included
Competitive performance
Long endurance rating
Excellent software package
Host power failure protection
Very fast
Competitive price
Lengthy warranty
64-layer 3D NAND
Overall performance
Price
5 year warranty
The editors didn't like
Sata interface
None
“Crucial shows everyone how a SATA3 SSD should be created in 2017. The MX500 simply delivers performance and features.”
Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive Review
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Drive looks dated
“Crucial sets new standards for what you should expect from a budget-oriented SSD. The MX500 is something different.”
Crucial MX500 1TB M.2 SATA SSD Review
The look appears dated
NVMe option
Drive cloning software not built into the Storage Executive utility
Kitguru says
In the MX500
Crucial have a mainstream drive that mixes good performance with a highly competitive price tag that may well make competitors sit up and take notice
Published: 2020-10-19, Author: Tim , review by: techspot.com
Abstract: Today we're revisiting storage performance with an emphasis on gaming. Since we tested the first batch of PCIe 4.0 SSDs about a year ago, we've been wanting to run more tests. Up until now, most games have been built with hard drives in mind, but as we mo...
Great price per GB, Huge storage capacity, Excellent performance
Slightly slower write speeds than contemporaries,
What this SSD review ultimately revealed is that Crucial MX500 2TB is a shoe-in for one of the best SSDs for its price. With its excellent performance, quality, and huge storage capacity, you're going to have plenty of space for video games, and still hav...
As we said at the beginning of this review, we have had the Crucial MX500 250GB for a few months now and we didn't just review it, we have been using it as a backup drive for various systems and activities. So far it's been a reliable SSD, as you would ex...
Published: 2019-06-20, Author: stefan , review by: madshrimps.be
The 1TB version of the MX500 Crucial SSD does trade punches with the 500GB and 250GB versions we have previously tested and overall we are seeing good mainstream performance for both reads and writes. We are getting plenty of storage space for different a...
Published: 2018-12-21, Author: Michael , review by: hothardware.com
Abstract: The solid state storage market is highly competitive, and it is also one that changes rapidly as the technology continues to evolve and prices fluctuate due to various factors. There are dozens of companies with multiple product lines that vie for dominan...
Traditional hard drives won't disappear anytime soon, but unless you need heaps of storage space for as little money as possible, you should buy an SSD instead. If you're a regular computer user, an affordable SATA SSD such as the Samsung 860 Evo is a sen...
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Published: 2018-08-27, Author: stefan , review by: madshrimps.be
The M.2 Type 2280 Crucial MX500 250GB does have about the same performance as its 500GB version and the installation process is pretty straight-forward. With a MTTF of 1.8 million hours, an endurance of 100TB (TBW) and a limited five-year warranty, we can...
Published: 2018-08-11, Author: Alex , review by: wccftech.com
Great value, High performance, 5 year warranty
When I got this drive I expected it to perform very similarly to the 500GB I really liked last month, I was not surprised in any way, and well at it's current price point its an even better value than the 500GB was, with prices on NAND continuing to drop...
Published: 2018-07-10, Author: Alex , review by: wccftech.com
Fantastic performance, Great Warranty, Great File Transfer Speed
All in all at $110 on Amazon right now, the Crucial drive is a great pick at the higher end of SATA SSDs, while in many cases the differences between it and the MyDigitalSSD SuperBoot were very minor, it did jump ahead quite a bit in our file transfer tes...
Published: 2018-07-06, Author: Tom , review by: pcmag.com
Low cost per gigabyte, Excellent performance for a SATA SSD, Available in 2.5-inch or M.2 SATA versions, Capacity options from 250GB to 2TB, Long warranty,
Endurance rating low for usage cases involving heavy data writes
An aggressively priced SATA SSD, the Crucial MX500 still manages swift read and write speeds, making it a very good value for upgrading a mainstream laptop or desktop PC...
