Part-specific certification of how this product meets the requirements of the current DIRECTIVE 2011/65/EU and 2015/863/EU, a. JP” is attached at the end of the parts number of official Japanese distributed products shipped after April 2017. Performance in sequential workloads is easily able to hit the peaks of SATA - CDM showed 546 MB/s read and ATTO topping 526 MB/s.

This SSD gives near-instant performance and lasting reliability that comes with solid-state storage. The MX500 has been out several years, and while it initially launched with a single 1TB capacity, this all has changed with the lineup now filled out from 250GB to 2TB. Our Crucial compatibility tools have been trusted more than 150 million times to help people like you find compatible products. Start your system in seconds, load files almost instantly, and accelerate the most demanding applications with the Crucial MX500.All other capacities of the Crucial MX500 SSD have comparable active average power consumption specs.

This is paired with Micron's 64Layer TLC NAND, but with a much larger 512Gbit die for the 2TB capacity. Some of the storage capacity is used for formatting and other purposes and is not available for data storage.

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.

With fast access to your media, creations, and designs, you’re ready to share at the speed of your life. Even if you’ve never installed an SSD, don’t sweat it — our step-by-step guide walks you through the process to make installation easy. PCMark 10 showed steady improvement over the BX series for the MX500 as a daily driver, but not quite as good as the Barracuda SSD from Seagate. It is used to join more and more people who keep their family videos, photos, music and important documents on an SSD.

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. Build quality is on par with the best SATA has to offer, and drive endurance is rated at a solid 700TBW or 383GB per day for five years.