Crucial T500 2TB PCIe Gen4 NVMe Solid State Drive

Model: Crucial T500 2TB PCIe Gen4 NVMe Solid State Drive
Manufacturer: Crucial
Provided By: Crucial

Crucial is a global brand of Micron Technology, Inc., one of the largest memory and flash storage manufacturers in the world. The company's product lineup includes award-winning solid state drives (SSDs) and computer memory upgrades (DRAM) for more than 50,000 systems. These products have been qualified and approved by major original equipment manufacturers and every single module has been rigorously tested at the component and module level. Each SSD also undergoes over a thousand hours of prerelease validation testing and hundreds of qualification tests to ensure optimal reliability and performance.

This past fall, Crucial introduced its latest Gen4 NVMe SSD, the T500. Designed for console and PC gamers, photo and video editors and content creators, this M.2 form factor drive is powered by Phison's new PS5025-E25 controller and is available with up to 2TB of Micron's industry-leading 232-layer 3D TLC NAND flash. The T500 is also available with or without an integrated, premium heatsink and is equipped with an ultra-fast PCIe Gen 4.0 x4 NVMe 2.0 interface to deliver up to 7,400 MB/s read and 7,000 MB/s write speeds. To top it all off, the drive supports Microsoft’s DirectStorage API software technology for faster game load times, quicker texture renders and reduced CPU utilization.

The T500 is available in 500GB, 1TB and 2TB capacities. For this review, Crucial sent us the 2TB, heatsink-equipped version of the drive, which is capable of delivering up to 7,400 MB/s sequential read and 7,000 MB/s sequential write speeds as well as up to 1,180K random read and 1,440K random write IOPS.

Needless to say, this is only a taste of what the T500 has to offer. To give you an idea of what to expect, we'll take a closer look at Crucial's latest PCIe Gen4 SSD and then see how well it performs. Does the T500 have what it takes? Can it deliver the performance and features that we've come to expect from Crucial?  Keep reading as we find out.