Customer Ratings & Reviews

I was looking forward to seeing if this can beat my high performing SSD and the limitations of PCIE-G4 currently. In summary I think we are getting close. I tried the stock 1TB OEM SSD that is a PCIE G4 and the game performance can be choppy at times. The initial logging in can be choppy. I think this is attributed to the drive’s limits. Then I moved onto a high-performance other brand Gaming 2TB PCIE G4 SSD and that added that little extra performance. The system runs smoother overall. The benchmarks were definitely better. Now enter the Crucial T500. When installing the drive, I was not sure how much it could improve. I followed the guides for Disabling Core Isolation in Windows 11. Then I proceeded to play some gaming matches in Forza, Fortnite and GTA 5. The performance seemed a little faster but it was hard to express how much. I did run a synthetic benchmark pictures attached. The speeds are better and worse by a little in some aspect but the drive so far is the best I have used. Crucial is very accurate on the advertised specs. That being said it is still running Windows and all the other things in my tray while this test is run. Pretty impressive. The only other thing that I was looking for was the improved battery life but that was hard to find since this is a powerful gaming laptop running an RTX 4090 so it would be hard to spot. Overall, I am very happy with the performance and the price point of the drive. The only other concern is if one was looking for more performance than waiting for PCIE G5 drives to come out with the 2024 line of notebooks yet to come or being announced currently. I feel like we are at a limit with the spec standard.

Wow ... Wicked fast transfer rates .... So setup was straight forward. Popped off the back of my predator laptop carefully. I used a star bit put the screws on painters tape for temp storage. Gingerly pried the backing off.of the laptop with a plastic prying tool. Removed the old 500 MB secondary hard drive. Inserted the 2 TB secured it with the screw. Reversed installed the bottom cover and booted the PC back up. Windows 11... Went to setup hard drives. Recognized the hard drive. Initialized it and I was left with just under 2 TB due to file allocation info... Went on to test transfer rates... Test folder with file size was just over 12 GB. Micro SD to HD was slow. Probably limited by Micro SD card. But from SDD to SDD... Holy cow..... I was getting almost 2 GB/s. Cover says up to 7.4 GB/s. I did not get there probably because my on board SDD is not rated over 3. FYI. This 12 GB of data is 4K video from my Vlogging camera. So I know there is a lot of data in these files. But my 12 GB of data was transferred so fast that I barely was able to click the mouse and take a photo to show the transfer speed I hit. Opening and playing the video was fine. No lag. No buffering or latency .. I will use this to store my game play data and my video content that I have or need to create using my video software. If you are looking for large storage and fast transfer speeds look no further. Good job Crucial .. I would recommend this product for what I reviewed it for.

Great reading speeds plus i can visually see a difference, the downloads are probably 20 minutes faster on most games to download, but loading up Battlefield 6 is nice and smooth. I used to have a Samsung 800 series SSD, but it was time to change. Super glad I did.

I chose the T500 because the nerds in the know on these sorts of things (primarily Nada from Techtesters) said this drive tests as one of the fastest and coolest-running drives around in this price tier. Popped it into my laptop as a secondary drive, and from the (somewhat limited) use I've got from it so far everything seems great. Files transfer faster than ever, temps are cool, and all seems good. Not really much to say on this as a non-techie; if it works well and doesn't lose my files, I'm happy. The last Crucial SSD I bought was purchased about... 12 years ago now? And I *still* use it! So unless I have a catastrophic failure to report, I guess I'm a satisfied customer! :)

So fast. No issues. I have a samsung 980 Pro in the other slot and it is a dog comparitively. Crucial is a reputible company. We have a few of their external drives. An X6 and X10 each. Using them for our our macbook and ipad pros. That was why , when I needed a second M.2, I chose a Crucial. We save a lot of large files so speed is of the essence. Best Buy shipped it in a bag, which is questionable for electronics but it was OK when delivered. No damage to insides and box was sealed with original tape from manufacturer. Fed Ex was late a day with it. Otherwise all good. You will be happy.

Installed my OS fresh onto it, been working great and is very fast. Have had no issues so far after over a month. I expect it to last. I found the best bang for buck for size I could and at time with sale, this seemed to be one of the top contenders as the time.

I got this for $140 back in 2024. It since jumped to $170 on black friday 2025 and now $240 now in december 2025. I can't recommend it at it's current price, but if you're able to get it for cheaper; it's the only one with a great controller, manufacturer's self-made cells, and caching. It gives Samsung SSDs a run for their money.

Excellent drive all around, about the only thing you could get as a better OS drive would be an Optane drive even compared to some pcie 5 drives and those can have thermal concerns. Definitely my all around top drive.

These work fantastic . I own 8 of them spread across 5 systems and none has ever given me a problem . No need for exotic heat sink . I use the $5 slabs of pure copper and the temps never get above the 50's . Speed tests are what you would expect for a gen 4 device .

Fast SSD reaching just below the rated speeds for my build. Decent price for capacity from a reputable brand, bonus being the performance. 5 year warranty. Compatible with PS5, and easy install in most devices thanks to being an m.2 device.

Awesome, added 2TB to my iMac with ease. Best Buy had a great sale price.

used in my gaming pc in raid and works wonderful high speed and relaible

Bought this nvme drive to replace an older Samsung on a laptop. Cloning worked well even though it showed a bit smaller than the original drive. The Crucial T500 is noticeably faster. It has been a few weeks now and no issues. Crucial is definitely a more cost effective alternative to other brand name drivers.

Using two of these as cache drives in an Unraid server. One is cache and the other is backup. Glad I purchased as micron is getting out of the memory market.

Got a new SSD for switching from Windows 11 to Linux Mint - works like a dream, no problems whatsoever. Plenty of space and it loads in less than 20 seconds

Worked right out of the box, no difficulties. Very fast storage for a good price. No issues! Highly recommend.

I used this to replace a smaller nvme drive for my OS. Copied OS drive over and tested the drive- it hit the listed speeds and os running solid on my work system

This was a easy to replace the drive in my Dell laptop. The performance is a bit better then the drive shipped with my laptop and the additional storage helps with photos and movies stored on laptop.

I wanted to upgrade the stock ssd that came with my computer. Being a bit of a gamer I need lots of storage space and prefer faster read times. This ssd is exactly what I needed.

The Crucial T500 is a step up from my previous PCiE gen 3 NVMe SSD. Excellent price for what it offers.