Name: M500
Brand: Micron
SKU: 436514
Rating: 4.1 (38 reviews)

4.0

based on all reviews

Consumer ratings:

4.2 / 5

robust capacity and value offered by Micron
Consistency is decent and latency is acceptable
Power consumption is decent with the Crucial M500

model had a large peak response time that leveled off for the duration
array of surface mount capacitors
Anvil Storage Utilities is not officially available yet

Form factor: M.2
Write speed: 400 Mbps
Read speed: 500 Mbps
Interface: Serial ATA III

Micron M500 - Pros & Cons

robust capacity and value offered by Micron
Consistency is decent and latency is acceptable
Power consumption is decent with the Crucial M500
great reliability and low pricing -

model had a large peak response time that leveled off for the duration
array of surface mount capacitors
Anvil Storage Utilities is not officially available yet
falling flat when writing data
flash seems to have issues when used in smaller capacity SSDs
measure performance have become ineffective to measure true Windows performance
DRAM buffer is limited to only carrying a couple megabytes of user data all times
the SSD lacks a bit on sequential read/write performance
all bits on the SSD are empty
standard 7% resulting from bits to bytes conversion
SSDs tend to be bursty while in operation and will spike in power usage
No noise
low power
shock resistance
the picture looks pretty bleak

Micron M500 - Technical Overview

	Poor	Average	Good	Excellent
Read speed	500 Mbps Best: Gigabyte AORUS AIC 8 TB Read speed: 15000 Mbps
Write speed	400 Mbps Best: Gigabyte AORUS AIC 8 TB Write speed: 15000 Mbps
Data transfer rate	6 GB/s Best: Kioxia CM5-V Series KCM51VUG1T60 1600 GB Data transfer rate: 32 GB/s

Micron M500 - Full Specifications

Form factor	M.2
Colour of product	Green Grey

Interface	Serial ATA III

Data transfer rate	6.0 GB/s
Write speed	400.0 Mbps
Memory type	MLC
Read speed	500.0 Mbps

Security algorithms	256-bit AES
S.M.A.R.T. support	yes
RoHS compliance	Y

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Micron M500 Micron - Editorial Reviews (7)

3.8

Based on 7 reviews

Micron M500 The Crucial/Micron M500 Review (960GB, 480GB, 240GB, 120GB)

anandtech.com

Published: 09.04.2013

The Crucial/Micron M500 Review (960GB, 480GB, 240GB, 120GB)

Micron M500 Micron M500 Enterprise SSD Review

StorageReview.com

Published: 09.04.2013

Micron M500 Enterprise SSD Review

The Micron M500 is part of the new SSD family created by Micron and

PCMAG

Published: 31.03.2014

Crucial m500 (960GB) Review

3.5

The Crucial m500 (960GB) internal solid-state drive (SSD) trades some performance for encryption capabilities and a larger pool of redundant flash.

The Tech Report

Published: 18.04.2013

Crucial's M500 SSD reviewed

Remember Intel’s old X25-M SSD? The drive came out in 2008 and played a big role in seeding a solid-state storage revolution that continues to sweep across the PC industry....

Custom PC Review

Published: 12.12.2013

Review: Crucial M500 480GB SSD - Custom PC Review

When your parent company is the owner of one of the largest NAND fabs in the world, it gives you some perks. Your cost of NAND is lower, your engineers know

Micron M500 Crucial M500 120GB SSD Review

TweakTown

Published: 12.07.2013

Crucial M500 120GB SSD Review

4.1

With all of the capacity sizes in hand, we're finally ready to take a closer look at the Crucial M500 products. We start things off with the 120GB model, the smallest capacity size in the new SSD series.