Backed by thousands of hours of pre-release validation, dozens of qualification tests, and a heritage of award-winning SSDs, the Crucial MX500 has been thoroughly tried, tested and proven. Unlike hard drives, SSDs don’t have moving parts that wear out over time, which makes them less likely to crash. Meanwhile, random performance has also been pushed about as high as possible, with the drive surpassing its claimed IOPS performance in Iometer.

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However, the Crucial MX500 is as nippy a SATA SSD as you can find, without opting for a pro-level drive. Active average power use comparison based on published specs of the 1TB Crucial MX500 SSD and the 1TB Western Digital® Caviar Blue™ WD10EZEX internal hard drive. This high-end feature works much like RAID works with multiple hard drives, maintaining the integrity of your data. Given the modest performance of the Crucial MX300, you’d be forgiven for expecting the MX500 to deliver much of the same.Some of the storage capacity is used for formatting and other purposes and is not available for data storage.

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Micron redefines what’s possible with innovative technology that shapes how we use data in all areas of life. Three years or five years or writing the maximum total bytes written (TBW) as published in the product datasheet and as measured in the product’s SMART data, whichever comes first. The MX500 also sees a bump up in the length of its warranty from its predecessor, with the drive now getting five years of cover. Crucial’s unique integration with Micron means our memory and storage components are designed, tested, and refined at every stage of the production process. All other capacities of the Crucial MX500 SSD have comparable active average power consumption specs.That’s a departure from the MX300; due to the odd 384GB capacity of its NAND dies, this was available in 275GB and 525GB versions. This drive sees the debut of Micron’s 64-layer 3D NAND, up from the 32-layer NAND of the MX300, but there’s still no NVMe option and this SATA version still isn’t an all-out performance model.