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Crucial T500 SSD review

November 16, 2023No Comments5 Mins Read
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At a glance

Expert’s Rating

Pros

  • Excellent PCIe 4.0 performance
  • Very affordable for an NVMe SSD with DRAM
  • Up to 2TB of capacity
  • Available with low-profile heatsink

Cons

  • Very slow when secondary cache runs out
  • Average TBW rating

Our Verdict

The T500 is one of the fastest PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs I’ve tested. It’s affordable for its ilk and available with a low-profile heatsink for another $10/£10.

Crucial is at it again, delivering a PCIe 4 NVMe SSD with excellent performance at an affordable price point. Of course, it’s not the equal of the PCIe 5.0 T700, but it’s highly competitive with the best of the PCIe 4.0 SSDs that I’ve tested.

You can also read our Crucial T700 review.

Design & Features

The T500 is a PCIe 4.0 x4 M.2, 2280 (22mm wide, 80mm long) NVMe SSD utilizing a Phison PS5025-E25 controller and 232-layer Micron TLC (Triple-Level Cell) NAND. It also employs 1GB of DRAM per terabyte of capacity for primary caching duties.

We’ve seen a number of good-performing HMB (Host Memory Buffer) SSDs recently, but they can’t match DRAM cache for the fastest random access and 4K performance. Translation: DRAM makes your operating system livelier.

The plain T500 without the low-profile heatsink.

Crucial warranties the drive against failure for five years, or 600TBW (terabytes that can be written) per terabyte of capacity. That is, the drive allows you to write up to 600 terabytes for every 1TB of NAND without any drop in capacity, or going into read-only mode due to cells wearing out.

Thanks to the onboard DRAM and its quick random performance, this is a great drive to run your operating system off of.

Performance

Short answer: The Crucial T500 is very fast. It didn’t quite match the excellent Solidigm P44 Pro overall, but it wasn’t far behind and bested that rival in several individual tests.

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Note that the Solidigm P44 Pro and Kingston Fury Renegade are both PCIe 4.0 SSDs with DRAM cache. The Lexar NM790 shown on the charts below is the fastest of the host memory buffer (HMB) drives I’ve tested.

CrystalDiskMark 8 sequential performance was right up there with the excellent Solidigm P44 Pro. Longer bars are better.

The T500 carried through its excellent CrystalDiskMark 8 performance in the 4K tests.

The T500’s 4K performance in CrystalDiskMark 8 wasn’t record setting, but certainly worthy. Longer bars are better.

The T500 did quite well with our real-world 48GB transfers (shown below), only truly falling off the pace of the Solidigm and Lexar NM970 in writing the 48GB group of smaller files and folders.

The T500 wasn’t the fastest drive in our 48GB transfers, but it was no slouch. Shorter bars are better.

The T500 actually set a new record (even besting PCIe 5.0 types) in our 450GB write; however, that’s not to say the drive is the best we’ve seen at sustained writes. Writing another 500GB to the drive exhausted its secondary cache and the speed dropped to less than 150MBps only about 100MB into the process.

The T500 actually set a new record in the 450GB write, although writing ever more data exhausted the secondary cache and dropped write speed to 150MBps. Shorter bars are better.

After some time off, the drive recovered nicely, and despite having only around 200MB of capacity left on the 2TB drive, it wrote another 48GB at over 3GBps. Put another way, you can’t write more than 600MB before write speeds drop, but the drive will still perform well even when nearly full. Obviously, the slowdown will occur sooner on the 1TB model.

The T500 with the low-profile heatsink attached.

Jon L. Jacobi

Price & Availability

The T500 is available in 500GB, 1TB, and 2TB capacities for $90, $120, and $170, respectively. That’s with a simple heat spreader. A larger, low-profile heatsink is available with the 1TB and 2TB models, which raises those prices $10, to $130 and $180.

In the UK it costs £87.59, £116.39 and £165.59 for the same capacities without a heatsink. Adding one pushes the cost to £125.99 and £175.19 with it not available for the 500GB.

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You can buy the T500 from Crucial as well as retailers such as Amazon, Box and Ebuyer.

Check out our chart of the best SSDs for more options.

Should you buy the Crucial T500?

If you want excellent PCIe 4.0 performance at a good price, the T500 should be on your tire-kicking list. And thanks to the onboard DRAM and its quick random performance, it’s also a great drive to run your operating system off of.

This review originally appeared on PCWorld.

How we test

Internal drive tests currently utilize Windows 11, 64-bit running on an X790 (PCIe 4.0/5.0) motherboard/i5-12400 CPU combo with two Kingston Fury 32GB DDR5 4800MHz modules (64GB of memory total). Both 20Gbps USB and Thunderbolt 4 are integrated to the back panel and Intel CPU/GPU graphics are used. The 48GB transfer tests utilize an ImDisk RAM disk taking up 58GB of the 64GB of total memory. The 450GB file is transferred from a Samsung 990 Pro 2TB which also runs the OS.

Each test is performed on a newly formatted and TRIM’d drive so the results are optimal. Note that in normal use, as a drive fills up, performance will decrease due to less NAND for secondary caching, as well as other factors.

Caveat: The performance numbers shown apply only to the drive we were shipped and to the capacity tested. SSD performance can and will vary by capacity due to more or fewer chips to shotgun reads/writes across and the amount of NAND available for secondary caching. Vendors also occasionally swap components. If you ever notice a large discrepancy between the performance you experience and that which we report, by all means, let us know.

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