Crucial Shows Off Its MX500 M.2 SATA SSD

Raevenlord · Jan 10, 2018

Crucial at CES 2018 has unveiled their M.2 version fo the prize-winning MX500 drive (you can read TPU's review of the MX500 2.5" drive here). The new M.2 SATA SSDs bring a much needed form-factor for Crucial's SSD line, with capacities ranging from 250 GB, passing through 500 GB, and ending in the 1 TB mark. All capacities have the same performance rating: 560 MB/s sequential read, 510 MB/s sequential writes, 90K random write and 95K random read IOPS.

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nickbaldwin86 · Jan 10, 2018

why so slow?

these are as cheap as SSD, I hope? because they have the same performance.

newtekie1 · Jan 10, 2018

nickbaldwin86 said:
why so slow?

these are as cheap as SSD, I hope? because they have the same performance.

These are still SATA drives, that's why.

bonehead123 · Jan 11, 2018

^^^ well,,,,, like,,,,,, DUH

Assimilator · Jan 11, 2018

"prize-winning" - "award-winning" would be more appropriate.

Baum · Jan 11, 2018

Well i need a m.2 sata ssd for my ultrabook 500GB-2TB and i don't know which one to buy....

For me it boils down to Sandisk X400 VS. Samsung Evo 850 something model as those are the ones with high access rate I/O rate and write fast enought

bug · Jan 11, 2018

Baum said:
Well i need a m.2 sata ssd for my ultrabook 500GB-2TB and i don't know which one to buy....

For me it boils down to Sandisk X400 VS. Samsung Evo 850 something model as those are the ones with high access rate I/O rate and write fast enought

You can never go wrong with an 850 EVO. The MX500 seems to be just as good and cheaper, but it's yet unproven (not a fault of the drive, but a drawback of any new product).

Woomack · Jan 11, 2018

bug said:
You can never go wrong with an 850 EVO. The MX500 seems to be just as good and cheaper, but it's yet unproven (not a fault of the drive, but a drawback of any new product).

MX500 is faster in random operations than Samsung 850 EVO. Sequential bandwidth is about the same for all SATA SSD so there is not much to compare but random bandwidth is what makes the difference in daily work. MX500 in random operations performs better even than Samsung 850 Pro. I mean in popular benchmarks as on paper both have the same random IOPS. What I said is based on my MX500 1TB tests ( review sample but retail package ).

bug · Jan 11, 2018

Woomack said:
MX500 is faster in random operations than Samsung 850 EVO. Sequential bandwidth is about the same for all SATA SSD so there is not much to compare but random bandwidth is what makes the difference in daily work. MX500 in random operations performs better even than Samsung 850 Pro. I mean in popular benchmarks as on paper both have the same random IOPS. What I said is based on my MX500 1TB tests ( review sample but retail package ).

It's what Anandtech has found, true, but I'm not sure what "burst" means in those tests.

I mean, 850 EVO also hits 44MB/s: http://www.legitreviews.com/samsung-850-evo-series-ssd-review_154548/4
Yet on Anadtech, it sits at around 34MB/s.

Woomack · Jan 11, 2018

I had up to 47MB/s random 4kQ1T1 read in CDM on MX500. That's on ASRock X299E-ITX/AC mobo and SODIMM@4000 ( fast RAM usually helps a bit in these tests ).

nickbaldwin86 · Jan 11, 2018

bonehead123 said:
^^^ well,,,,, like,,,,,, DUH

newtekie1 said:
These are still SATA drives, that's why.

DOH! ... DUH! sorry missed the SATA part. I just saw M.2 and then saw the slow speeds and expected more... should have just left but made a stupid comment instead. thanks for clearing that up

newtekie1 · Jan 11, 2018

nickbaldwin86 said:
DOH! ... DUH! sorry missed the SATA part. I just saw M.2 and then saw the slow speeds and expected more... should have just left but made a stupid comment instead. thanks for clearing that up

No problem, it is a common mistake.

bonehead123 · Jan 11, 2018

nickbaldwin86 said:
DOH! ... DUH! sorry missed the SATA part. I just saw M.2 and then saw the slow speeds and expected more... should have just left but made a stupid comment instead. thanks for clearing that up

Sorry if that came across negatively, that was not my intent, I was just poking fun at the obvious mis-read....

Been there, done that, so I will be more sincere in my future comments

nickbaldwin86 · Jan 11, 2018

bonehead123 said:
Sorry if that came across negatively, that was not my intent, I was just poking fun at the obvious mis-read....

Been there, done that, so I will be more sincere in my future comments

No not at all, I didn't take it personally. I literally wouldn't have figured it out otherwise and forgot about it. that is sort of why I asked. I some how just wasn't thinking and completely missed the SATA part

Baum · Jan 15, 2018

Woomack said:
MX500 is faster in random operations than Samsung 850 EVO. Sequential bandwidth is about the same for all SATA SSD so there is not much to compare but random bandwidth is what makes the difference in daily work. MX500 in random operations performs better even than Samsung 850 Pro. I mean in popular benchmarks as on paper both have the same random IOPS. What I said is based on my MX500 1TB tests ( review sample but retail package ).

as i need a M.2 SATA based device i think i will go with the MX500 then.....

If you look at the benchmarks, usually the bigger the capacity ssd is, the faster it gets because of software tricks and more memmory modules to write on.

I hope that the mx500 with less than 1TB feels fast that's all. Random bandwith should be important as i can't use samsungs "rapid" caching with 8GB Ram (And no there is no ram slot to upgrade)

bug · Jan 15, 2018

Baum said:
as i need a M.2 SATA based device i think i will go with the MX500 then.....

If you look at the benchmarks, usually the bigger the capacity ssd is, the faster it gets because of software tricks and more memmory modules to write on.

I hope that the mx500 with less than 1TB feels fast that's all. Random bandwith should be important as i can't use samsungs "rapid" caching with 8GB Ram (And no there is no ram slot to upgrade)

It's not "the bigger, the faster". It's just that smaller drives use too few dies to use all the channel of the controller. It's like using a single stick of RAM that disables the dual-channel feature.
Usually 128 and 256GB drives are bottlenecked, but with the piling up of layers that limit could go up so it's always wise to check first.

Baum · Jan 16, 2018

i have asked crucial for mx500 m.2 release dates. yet no answer :-(

man i need space ^^

bug · Jan 16, 2018

Baum said:
i have asked crucial for mx500 m.2 release dates. yet no answer :-(

man i need space ^^

And yet, the motherboard in your sig has no M.2 slots.

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Crucial Shows Off Its MX500 M.2 SATA SSD

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