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2014-08-04T21:00:00

Rated 4 out of 5

Bought two more after the first...

Recently purchased three BRIX and NUC systems requiring MSATA drives. Liked the first Crucial M500 as boot disk, so bought two more for the other systems. Great price/performance ratio. No issues.

David W.

2014-06-23T21:00:00

Rated 5 out of 5

Terrific!

Fast and easy to install.

Corpulence P.

2014-01-21T19:00:00

Rated 5 out of 5

Easy & Fast

Its everything an SSD should be. Easy to install and it's FAST!

Dan O.

Crucial M500 Specifications

  • Capacity

    120GB

  • Interface

    SATA 6Gb/s (SATA 3GB/s compatible)

  • Sustained Sequential Read up to

    500MB/s (128k transfer)

  • Sustained Sequential Write up to

    130MB/s (128k transfer)

  • Random Read IOPS (4K)

    62,000IOPS

  • Random Write IOPS (4K)

    35,000IOPS

  • Form Factor

    2.5" (6.35cm)

  • NAND

    20nm Micron MLC NND

  • MTBF

    1.2 million hours

  • Operating Temperature

    32 to 158deg.F / 0 to 70deg.C

  • Firmware

    Field upgradable firmware

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About Crucial M500

The Crucial M500 120GB SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" Internal Solid State Drive features 120GB of storage for saving everything from HD movies, to videos, photos, music and more. With solid state drive technology you benefit from enhanced read speeds of up to 500MB/s as well as write speeds in excess of 130MB/s. This 2.5" drive fits a variety of needs such as adding additional storage for notebook computers. Once installed the 1.2 million hours MTBF ensures piece of mind that the drive will work when you need it most.

Crucial M500 Features

  • Micron Quality: This solid state drive undergoes hundreds of SSD qualification tests and over a thousand hours of prerelease validation testing
  • Adaptive Thermal Protection: Greater thermal management enables the Crucial M500 to work with the host computer to dynamically adjust power consumption based on usage demands, which helps address the cooling challenges of ultra-small, thermally constrained systems
  • Hardware Data Encryption: With an AES 256-bit hardware encryption engine and TCG Opal 2.0 compliant firmware the drive can operate at full speed without the performance loss that's typically found in drives that use software-based encryption technology