this is the first time I ever installed a nvme, I ended up having to get a external driver but it worked wonderful so far so good! I'd like to come back to this review to tell you how well it worked out I had a TV that I believe it's my location being next to a radio tower causing it to flicker...

I ONLY USE CRUCIAL FOR MY OWN PERSONAL BUILDS. WHY BECAUSE THEY ARE THE BEST THERE IS.I HAVE NEVER HAD A CRUCIAL PRODUCT LET ME DOWN.AND CRUCIAL I AM SEEING IS PRICED CLOSE TO OTHERS THESE DAYS.SO WHY WOULDNT YOU BUY RELIABILTY?THESE M.2 ARE FAST FOR A GEN 4. VERY GOOD VALUE FOR THE MONEY.

The Crucial T500 2TB Gen4 NVMe M.2 Internal Gaming SSD is part of a series that includes the T700 and T705 models, which offer higher read and write speeds but are limited to desktop use. The T500 model, however, supports a wider range of devices including laptops and PlayStation 5 consoles

What an amazing product I would highly recommend it to anyone looking for an SSD for their old HP computer that no one uses anymore what an amazing product I would highly recommend it to anyone looking for an SSD for their old HP computer that no one uses anymore! five stars!

I liked that the drive worked well and is very fast in my PS5. It's cheaper than the "PS5 Branded" versions and is made by a reputable company (Crucial). Installation was easy and the PS5 recognized the drive immediately and setup without issue.

Upgraded from older SSD. This ting was over 10x faster. Need for transferring large video files. Increased my productivity. Was easy to install in my ASRock B550m Motherboard . Didn't come with an M2 screw, had to order one separately.

The Crucial T500 2TB SSD is an absolute game-changer for my PS5! With speeds up to 7400MB/s, load times are lightning-fast, and I can store more games without sacrificing performance.

Haven't had any issues with it, and it works perfectly in my build. The only issue I have now is that the games I have use up so much memory that I need to add more memory to my build.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] This is a great drive to use as an OS drive if you have multiple M.2 slots for storage. It is very fast and reliable.

Runs fast and stays cool, unlike many other drives. Always had great luck with Crucial drives' longevity in the past, expecting the same again!

The throughput speed is very good. I cloned Windows OS on to it. It brought new speed to the system. The manufacturers software is also good.

So easy to install, instructional videos are available. So fast you can't tell the difference between the Crucial and the stock drive.

This is a great drive to use as an OS drive if you have multiple M.2 slots for storage. It is very fast and reliable.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Great for gaming. Easy install. Temp stays cool under load.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] The drive runs very fast and cool. I am completely satisfied.

This don't have the speed of the SN8100, but for the money you can't touch it. IT BLAZES.

Great for gaming. Easy install. Temp stays cool under load.

The drive runs very fast and cool. I am completely satisfied.

Fast, easy to install, works great

It's nice. Was easy to pop in

The Crucial T500 SSD is a PCIe Gen 4 NVME solid state drive. It fits into a standard M.2 slot with a 2280 drive form factor. This version of the T500 does not come with a heatsink, but rather has the typical heat spreader label found on most NVME drives. This didn’t affect me as my motherboard’s main slot comes with heatsink. I installed the T500 in my ASUS G16CH tower with an intel i7 13700KF CPU and custom ASUS B760M-A WIFI D4 motherboard. I moved the original NVME drive to slot 2 just below the GPU – both slots run at x4 PCIe Gen 4 speeds, but I wanted the T500 in slot 1 because of the heatsink and better airflow.\n\nI have used Crucial SSD’s for years and have had pretty good success. I have a P2, and a P5 NVME drive along with an older MX500 SATA SSD installed for years without issues. Looking up the drive with Reddit’s SSDBOT gives you a nice look at how it stacks up with other drives. It gets rated as a High-End NVME drive, and by the specs its right at the top of the PCIe Gen 4 speed rating. The only way to go faster is to jump up to Gen 5 based drives and spend 2.5-3x more for 50-80% speed bump. The current speed of this drive is rated at 7400/7000 read/write with 2500 P/E cycles for endurance.\n \nPhysical installation was a breeze. Replacing or adding a PCIe based SSD is one of the easiest upgrades you can make. The drive does not come with a screw, so if your MOBO doesn’t have a spare you just need to track down an M2x3mm screw. I have a computer fastener kit, so I just pulled one from there. As far as software installation goes I figured I would give the Acronis drive cloning tool on Crucial’s website a try. I usually do a fresh install, but thought the clone might work a little better. I regretted it to be honest. It seemed to clone just fine, but after a few days I started noticing some glitches and some instability in Explorer. I eventually just wiped the drive and did a fresh install of Windows 11. \n\nThe drive I replaced with the T500 was an OEM drive that ASUS sourced from Micron – something close to a Micron 2400. Micron happens to be the parent company of Crucial, so there’s that. It was a 1TB NVME drive that had QLC NAND chips and was also a PCIe Gen 4 drive. The T500 was an upgrade all around with some similarities. The obvious being the 2TB size over 1TB. Speed increases were also substantial as the T500 was almost 2X faster – R/W of 4500/3600 for the old drive and 7400/7000 for the T500. There are also some architectural advantages to the T500. The NAND chips used are TLC (triple layer cells), which have been around for years and are a mature technology. The TLC chips offer greater endurance over QLC and increased speeds. The controller used in the T500 is a Phison PS5025-E25 – the Phison lineup is used pretty heavily in higher end NVME drives, so that provides some confidence in its usage.\n\nI ran the drive through CrystalDiskMark 8.0.4 and I pretty consistently got around 7100 MB/s for read speeds and 6825 MB/s write speeds. This is a little below advertised but I would call it pretty close for my taste. There’s always some system overhead with this being the OS drive, so I can’t rule out that taking some bandwidth. For practical usage I redownloaded my Steam and Gamepass libraries to the new drive. Before I had to pick and choose what I wanted on the 1TB drive, and what I had to load from my SATA SSD or Hybrid Hard Drive. With 2 TB of storage I am just at 40% capacity used and I have plenty of space to grow my library. Launching games is a touch faster – load times are down noticeably for the larger games – MCC, Forza, Shadow of War. In some of the smaller/older games that get played the load times weren’t vastly different – 8 seconds dropping down to 6 seconds doesn’t register as much as 15-20 second improvement on the larger games. Compared to loading games from my HHD though – enormously faster. An HHD drive is already decently faster than a plain HDD, so I can only imagine the improvement you would see. \n\nI didn’t really have a chance to try out many other workloads – I haven’t gotten my Solidworks working after resetting my PC, but I do know that a faster drive is always welcome when I work on larger models. The jump from a SATA SSD to an NVME drive was a pretty big leap when messing around with large files, so I can only speculate that I should see further improvement going to the T500. \n\nAs far as use cases are concerned I would suspect anyone looking for a large boot drive that has some speed would be interested in the T500. It doesn’t break the bank compared to the PCIe Gen 5 drives, and it is certainly fast enough to handle any gaming needs. If you have a laptop with only 1 M.2 slot this is definitely a drive to look at since you don’t have the luxury of multiple drive slots to spread your data around on. The durability of TLC NAND and the Phison controller would bring me some comfort if this was my PC’s only drive. Overall, this is a solid PCIe NVME drive. I don’

SUMMARY\nThe T500 is a premium offering from Crucial with the hardware to back it up. It reached some of the fastest Gen 4 speeds I’ve ever recorded, has 2GB of DRAM, a life expectancy of 1200 TBW, and is fully compatible with the PS5.\n\nINTRO\nThe T500 represents Crucial’s (Crucial is owned by Micron) premium entry into the consumer NVMe market. Crucial has put all the necessary hardware on the drive to make it a top performer in the field and the specs and the results prove it. The T500 is capable of sequential read speeds up to 7400MB/s and write speeds of 7000 MB/s. Crucial places approximately 1GB of DRAM per TB, so this 2TB SSD is equipped with 2GB of DDR4 DRAM. Managing all of this is the latest Phison controller that supports Microsoft’s DirectStorage tech. Warranty on the drive is 5 years with an endurance rating of 1200TBW. \n\nSYSTEM CONFIGURATION\nMy test computer is a new 2023 Asus ExpertCenter. It has a 13th generation Intel Core i5 processor, 16GB of RAM, and most importantly, supports the latest Gen4 NVMe interface. The computer came with a Micron Gen 4 NVMe drive installed, but it was only a 500GB model and honestly, speeds into and out of the drive were underwhelming. Far from what I would have expected from a Gen 4 drive.\n\nWhile I was hoping for improved performance from the desktop, my real reason for installing the T500 is I am trying to make the Asus a mild gaming PC in addition to its daily chores as my primary workhorse. After installing just 2 games on an otherwise fresh install of Windows 11, I had clogged up over 60% of my existing drive. This was forcing me to store larger work files on my NAS and my performance was dropping off rapidly, the fuller the 500GB model got. Storage room improved significantly with the T500 as final capacity after partitioning, provisioning, and installation of Windows 11 yielded 1.83TB of usable storage space.\n\nAfter installing the drive in the desktop and a fresh copy of Windows 11, it was time to reload all the latest drivers, my current choice of games, and all the latest productivity and business software. Surprisingly, the computer was much more responsive. Opening and installing large files seemed much quicker. Larger video driver downloads compiled faster and were much quicker to open after download. The computer just seemed peppier and no matter what I asked of the desktop, it just felt much snappier and less labored. \n\nI thought this was more of a mind trick than anything. I had made myself believe that after spending all this time installing the drive and re-downloading all the software I use, this desktop must be quicker. Kind of like when you put a shiny new part on your car and you swear it runs better, has more power, and gets better mileage. So, was I just making myself believe it, or was it faster? Time to find out. Fingers crossed, because this installation, update, and all the software downloads & installs took a while. Ugh.\n\nQueuing up CrystalDiskMark confirmed my observations. The desktop is decidedly faster than it was. Going from one Micron drive to another shows a vast disparity in drives with the same Gen 4 interface. Attached are photos of the results. The T500 is nearly twice as fast as my old NVMe drive. Sequential and Random read and write speeds are right at where Crucial claims they should be, topping more than 7000MB/s. Outstanding. Even more impressive, is that even during all my benchmarking, the drive never got over 71C and never thermal throttled. Partly because of good case airflow, but mostly due to the integrated heatsink on the drive. A worthy option whether you are installing the drive in a PS5 or a desktop.\n\nSynthetic benchmarks aside, this drive is markedly faster in day-to-day tasks. Opening larger driver installation packages is much quicker. Driver installs, game installs, everything happens much quicker with the T500. To prove my theory, I used my 2 newest games I purchased over the holidays. The files are massive (both games clocked in at over 80+ GB each). Once the games are downloaded, the installer goes back, reads, and verifies the installation. With over 80GB per game, this can take a while and it did. \n\nMy old Micron drive averaged just over 1 GB/s read speeds (sorry, I don’t have photos documenting). Top read speed was approximately 1.25 GB/s. Not bad. However, the T500 crushed it. Game verification was taking place at over 4 GB/s with speeds reaching up to 4.3 GB/s. That’s nearly 4x the increase in performance! This is immediately noticeable when opening a large application, starting a new game, installing drivers, etc.\n\nNEGATIVES\nThe only negative I find about the T500 is its lack of hardware-based encryption. I scoured the Crucial website and even their product literature and can find no mention of support for encryption. A premium drive of this caliber deserves the ability to support hardware-based data encryption, especially one th

If you own a PS5 and you don’t already have one, you need an extra SSD. It’s no secret that game’s file sizes are ever increasing - Call of Duty can take up several 100 GBs on its own. If you haven’t yet had to delete old game files to make space for new ones, you will soon. And if you’re tired of having to micromanage your hard drive space, then you need extra storage. 1 TB is good, but more is better, and while the costs of the 4 TB SSDs are still pretty steep (often ⅔ the cost of a PS5), the 2 TB Crucial T500 hits a nice balance of price and performance. It’s a no brainer of an upgrade for your PS5.\n\nThere are a lot of manufacturers out there, but Crucial is a global brand known for high quality memory products. You know what you’re getting - quality and performance. This particular model is Gen4, and while Gen5 is starting to come out, its speed matches the performance necessary to run inside your PS5. While knowledge of technical details isn’t necessary for the masses, when looking for a SSD for your PS5 you just need to know that you need Gen4 M.2 with speeds greater than 5,500 MB/s. There are a variety of form factors, but the vast majority will work with the PS5. You’ll also need to make sure it has a heatsink. For those that don’t know, that’s because these little SSDs can get pretty hot and they need to dissipate heat. This Crucial T500 checks all the boxes.\n\nIts theoretical speeds get up to 7,400 MB/s read and 7,000 MB/s write speed. While my PS5 didn’t quite get that fast - your PS5 will display the speeds after it’s initially formatted for use - it was more than adequate. Read, it met the minimum requirements. After it’s installed in your PS5, you are then able to download games to it. While your games are stored on two separate drives (the SSD and the internal PS5 hard drive) it’s not something you have to worry about (until one of them runs out of space). And I noticed no difference whether a game was installed on the PS5 internal SSD or the Crucial T500. Honestly, there’s nothing more than you ask for. This drive brings incredible performance, and the price for its size is a terrific deal. I can’t recommend it enough. There might be other cheaper drives, but you won’t get the 5 year warranty and comfort knowing you have a SSD from a known, and quality manufacturer. \n\nOne little aside, and this to all those who have not installed a SSD in their PS5. There are plenty of videos on the internet - including from PlayStation - showing you how to do so. For those who are not familiar with computer parts or are nervous about opening up their PS5, I assure you it is a simple process that takes only minutes. Once it’s unplugged, you place it down, lift up the corner of the faceplate and with a little pressure, it will slide off. From there, you simply need a Phillips head screwdriver to remove the SSD cover plate, and to tighten the SSD into the slot (it slides in and then a screw holds the SSD in place. Put the cover plate back on, and then slide the PS5 cover on and voila, you’re done.

As someone who is fortunate enough to own both the WD SN850X and the Samsung 990 Pro I can say confidently that the Crucial T500 is a contender and performs at the same levels trading some blows depending on the test/environment. As this is a high-end Gen 4 SSD. As seen by the specs below. Most specifically, up to 7,400 read, 7,000 write speeds, 232-layer 3D TLC NAND, Micron LPDDR4 DRAM, 1 GB per 1 TB of NAND flash, and Phison PS5025-E25 controller. Supports Microsoft Direct Storage and can be used PS5, PC, or laptop. \n\nFor my testing I put it in my gaming laptop. Which is an Acer Predator Helios 16 (2023). I didn’t get max speeds, ~7,000 read and 6,900 write speeds. Which is extremely close to what I am getting with my SN850x and 990 Pro. The differences between them I don’t think is meaningful. Transferring large files (>200 GB) went quickly and stayed at high speeds throughout. Again, traded blows with both the SN850X and 990 Pro where no one was an easy winner. I didn’t have any issues with thermal throttling. But that will depend on how much of a demand you are constantly putting on it along with if you have a heat sink or not. \n\nOverall, great SSD that I have no complaints about. I can’t mention an increase in speeds or game loading times compared to my old drives as I’ve already been using high-end SSDs. But can say this is very similar and if I was doing blind testing, I wouldn’t be able to tell a difference. If you are using an HDD or a gen 3 SSD (and your PC supports a Gen 4 SSD) I highly recommend the upgrade. As there are a lot more things that are starting to utilize these faster speeds so you will see a difference in multiple aspects such as boot times, transferring large amounts of files, loading files, texture loading in games, games loading up, and loading screens to name a few. Especially, with games that support Microsoft Direct Storage. The 5-year warranty is greatly appreciated and has multiple features to keep it fresh and as fast as possible. \n\nSPECS: \nBuilt for gaming, photo/video editing and high workload applications. \nGen4 high-end 2280 M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD. \n232-layer 3D TLC NAND\nUp to 7,400 MB/s read speeds and Up to 7,000 MB/s write speeds. But this varies a bit depending on storage size. \nRandom read/write speeds up to 1.18/1.44 IOPs\n2280 M.2 SSD\nSupports Microsoft DirectStorage\nComes with or without integrated heatsink \nSupports, 500 GB, 1 TB, 2 TB capacities. With a 4 TB option to be available sometime 2024. \nSupports PS5, desktops, and laptops. \nMicron LPDDR4 DRAM, 1 GB per 1 TB of NAND flash\nPhison PS5025-E25 Controller\nMicrosoft DirectStorage optimized with Phison I/O+ technology\n5-year warranty\nStatic and dynamic SLC caching\nRedundant array of independent NAND (RAIN)\nMulti-layer data integrity algorithms\nAdaptive thermal protection \nData protection for power loss events\nTRIM support\nSMART monitor technology\nError Correction Code (ECC)

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The Crucial T500 2TB NVMe is a smart choice for anyone looking to upgrade the storage on their PlayStation 5. It's a relatively fast and reliable drive with plenty of storage for games and other media.\n\nI’m upgrading from a 1TB drive, so the added space is going to be very welcomed as games just keep getting bigger. Installation was a breeze, as is the case with the way Sony made the PS5. The included heatsink fits perfectly in the slot, so all you have to do is slot it in there, screw it in, and power on the PS5.\n\nOnce your PS5 is powered on you’ll receive a notification to format the drive and get it ready for use. This will also run a test to measure the read speed of the drive.. This is where things got a little interesting.\n\nThe drive that I was replacing reported a read speed of 6,500MB/s while the T500 reported a read speed of 5,600MB/s. I formatted it a few times just to make sure it wasn’t a fluke, but it turns out this is an accurate result. While 5,600MB/s is above the minimum 5,500MB/s that the PS5 requires, it’s still much lower than other drives on the market.\n\nThe upside to this low reading is the fact that real-world performance isn’t significantly impacted. Copying games, loading games, and other general operations don’t seem any slower than with my other drive installed. I confirmed my findings with a well-known review website and they had the same results. So, don’t put too much credence in what the PS5 states the read speed is for the T500 as it won’t matter for this use case, but I do wonder why the reading isn’t higher since the drive is capable of faster speeds.\n\nThe T500 is indeed capable of its advertised speeds when put into an adequately powerful computer though, you just can’t attain them on the PS5.\n\nHere are some of the pros and cons of the Crucial T500 NVMe:\n\nPros:\nGood performance: The T500 NVMe advertises read speeds of up to 7,400 MB/s and write speeds of up to 7,000 MB/s. This makes it one of the fastest drives available for the PS5, in theory. However, the PS5 read test only results in a 5,600MB\nReliability: The T500 NVMe is built with high-quality components and has been tested to withstand countless hours of gaming.\nPlenty of storage space: 2TB of space at this price is a great deal.\nComes with a heatsink preinstalled.\n5 Year warranty.\n\n\nCons:\nThe PS5 will only read this drive at 5,600MB/s, which puts it only slightly above the minimum read speed spec for PS5 extended storage.\nOverall, if the price is right and you want more storage for your PS5, the T500 gets my recommendation.

The Crucial T500 is an absolute monster when it comes to Read and Write speeds , data processing, data security, machine learning and content creation. Best way to put it is this is a must for anything and everything digital in your world. \n\nI used the T500 for my PS5 and it was a breeze to install, the heat sink is the perfect size and I didn’t struggle at all inserting the drive into the expansion slot. The drive was instantly recognized by the PS5 and worked without a hitch. I know the T500 is rated at 7000+ read/write speeds under perfect conditions (usually when system is cold without anything else on the drive), I decided to do something push the drive to see how it would respond. I downloaded 2 games from PSN straight to the T500 and installed Spiderman 2 from disk to the PS5 hard drive and than moved it to the T500 (all games being 60-80 GB not including updates). After this I erased the contents of the T500 and reintroduced it to the PS5 to see how well it would perform and I was surprised that even after 3+ hours of constant use the drive was still doing over 5000+ read/write speeds which was mind blowing that after that amount of time the drive was performing at such a high level.\n\nI continued playing my PS5 after these test for 4 hours ( don’t judge me too hard) and there was no visible slowdown what so ever, load times stayed the same and no hiccups in any of the games. I even moved games back and forth from the PS5/T500 and speeds remained constant. This seems to be because of some of the best industry components, the T500 has 232-Layer NAND along with one of the best controllers from Phison. The tech behind the NAND and the controller make it so you can game/create content and anything else for hours on end without having drops in performance as you would with prior hard drives.\n\nBesides the PS5 the T500 can used to game on windows since it can utilize DirectStorage which can cut down load times from 2.5 seconds to under a second which is substantial. The T500 is a perfect storage device for all your digital needs and has a crazy 1200 terabyte endurance which means this drive wont fail you even if you added/removed 80 GB a day for over 10+ years. \n\nOverall I think this drive is great, there is very little thermal throttling and Crucial being a leader is memory give me comfort that everything on the drive you be protected for a long time.