2TB Crucial T500 SSD

The best budget 4.0 drive?

Zak Storey

PRICE $257 WEB crucial.com This might just be the best-value M.2 PCIe 4.0 SSD we’ve found – one that not only delivers big on the storage per $ front, but doesn’t sacrifice performance while it does it. At its heart, it’s a super-speedy PCIe 4.0 drive, with sequentials listed at 7,400 and 7,000 MB/s and random read/write IOPS at 1,180K / 1,440K respectively. You can pick one up in two variants, either with or without a heatsink, and it features an impeccable 1200 TBW endurance rating and a five-year warranty. The NAND flash at its core is the real showpiece, however. It’s powered by Micron’s 232-layer NAND Flash tech – according to Micron, it’s 35 percent denser than the best-competing products out there (at least at time of release, debuting…

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