Crucial reveals MX500 SSDs with capacities up to 2TB

Crucial today revealed its MX500 SSD series. The drives feature Micron 64 layer 3D TLC NAND combined with a Silicon Motion SM 2258 controller. The drives make use of the SATA-600 interface and are able to achieve maximum sequential reads of 560 MB/s and maximum sequential writes at 510MB/s.

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The speeds are only little higher than the maximum speeds that Micron specifies for its MX300 SSDs series. The speed of the SSD is likely limited by the SATA-600 interface, which in theory allows speeds up to 600MB/s.

The MX500 series will be available in 2.5" and M.2 2280 form-factors and in capacities of 250GB, 500GB and 1TB. Also a 2TB drive will be available, but only in the 2.5" form-factor.

Crucial specifies maximum random reads at 95,000 IOPS and maximum random writes at 90,000 IOPS. The MX500 SSDs come with a five year limited warranty, two years more than its predecessor, the MX300 series. TBWs are specified from 100TB TBW for the 250GB model to 700TB TBW for the 2TB model.

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The Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" drive is currently available on the Crucial website at $259.99. Other models will become available the coming time.

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