Capacity:960 GB
Dramatically faster than a hard drive, the Crucial
M500 SSD isn't just a storage upgrade - it's a complete system
transformation. Designed to keep your system up to speed with
today's multitasking demands that often require instant and
simultaneous connections with friends, apps, websites, downloads,
and playlists, the Crucial M500 delivers nearly instantaneous
boot times, powerful data transfer speeds, increased multitasking
capability, and rock-solid reliability - all at an affordable
price. Available in capacities up to terabyte-class, the Crucial
M500 has passed hundreds of SSD quality tests and over a thousand
hours of prerelease validation testing. Don't settle for anything
less.
From the Manufacturer
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Crucial M500 2.5-inch SSD
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For consumers | Transform your system’s performance.
New interfaces and multitasking demands require more from your
system than perhaps ever before. From connecting instantly with
friends and accessing apps, websites, and playlists online, to
simultaneously streaming videos and downloading files, your
computer is faced with an entirely new set of performance
expectations that a hard drive struggles to meet. That’s where
the Crucial M500 SSD comes in. With speeds dramatically faster
than a hard drive, the Crucial M500 SSD isn't just a storage
upgrade - it's a complete system transformation. From its nearly
instantaneous boot times, powerful data transfer speeds,
increased multitasking capability, and rock-solid reliability,
the Crucial M500 delivers dramatic performance gains - all at an
affordable price.
For businesses | Secure your data. Protect your customers’
privacy.
Your data is your competitive advantage. Whether it’s the inside
information on your latest product or your customers’ credit card
numbers, information in the wrong hands has the potential to
devastate your business. The best strategy for protecting your
sensitive data is to implement a defense, one that includes
top-level hardware-based encryption. The Crucial M500 SSD is a
self-encrypting drive (SED) based on the rigorous standards
established by the TCG Opal specification. Combined with
applications like Microsoft BitLocker or Wave Systems’ EMBASSY
Trust suite, our AES 256-bit hardware encryption engine (that’s
integrated into the controller of the Crucial M500) allows the
drive to operate at full speed without the performance loss
that’s typically associated with non-SED drives using
software-based encryption technology.
For all users | Consistently fast speeds. No exceptions.
No matter what kind of files you’re working with on a Crucial
SSD, you’ll experience high speeds with no drop in performance
across different file types. Unlike other SSDs on the market,
Crucial SSDs treat all files the same, regardless of whether
they’re compressed or uncompressed. While many SSDs on the market
achieve faster speeds by using file compression, many of the most
common file types can’t be compressed, resulting in SSDs that
often deliver slower speeds than advertised. This is important
because the files most people use every day – videos, mp3s,
advanced graphic files and zip files - are compressed files and
thus unable to be compressed any further. With a Crucial SSD, the
specs we advertise are the same specs you’ll see in the real
world.
Crucial SSDs. Performance you can trust.
Crucial is a brand of Micron, one of the largest NAND
manufacturers in the world, and we design and develop our SSDs
in-house using state-of-the-art technology. This means four
things: hundreds of SSD qualification tests, over a thousand
hours of prerelease validation testing, 1.5 billion dollars
invested in R&D, and more than 30 years of industry expertise.
With our multi-billion dollar commitment to NAND development, our
record of patent and process innovation, and our award-winning
customer support team, we’re dedicated to quality. For you, that
means your SSD has been designed with cutting-edge technology and
it’s been rigorously tested and approved. Don’t settle for
anything less.
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Product Highlights:
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* Transformative performance: dramatically faster than a hard
drive
* Nearly instant boot times
* Ample storage: available in capacities of 120GB, 240GB, 480GB,
and 960GB*
* Includes top-level hardware encryption technology
* Advanced controller technology and Micron custom firmware
* Extensive quality and reliability testing built into every
drive
* Compatible with PC and Mac systems
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servers.
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*1 GB = 1 billion bytes. Actual usable capacity may vary.
- Transformative performance: dramatically faster than a hard drive.
- Nearly instantaneous boot times.
- Sequential Read: 500 MB/s | Sequential Write: 400 MB/s | 4KB Random Read: 80,000 IOPS.
- Ample storage: available in capacities up to terabyte-class.
- Includes top-level hardware encryption technology.