Customer Ratings & Reviews

Its better then I expected mighty upgrade it to 4tb love it

This was what i was looking for. Best buy had the best price so i bought two of them for me and a love one.

Compact and fast im using as an external drive solely for my ps4 game downloads on my ps5 with an enclosure.

Purchased to install in ps5 was a perfect fit easy to install nonissues with performance

best thing i’ve bought, works perfectly, and i recently transferred from her to sdd and this made my computer run up so fast. i really recommend

Great price. Does what it is supposed to. I would recommend using this products. Installation was easy and quick.

It's perfect, I recommend it. Speed ​​and quality.

Works great compatible no issues or any problems easy to install

Games load super quick perfect upgrade for the ps5

More than what I expected, I would recommend it, worth it.

My title more or less says it all. This is a very good well-rounded choice if you are looking to give your PS5 a little capacity/life. As for the design, well, it looks pretty nice. Sleek. Clean. Simple. Not that you will see it. I am sure the heatsink helps with heat, probably helping performance-wise, but, honestly, I wasn’t having issues that I knew of, and just wanted this for more storage. Installation is pretty simple. Not much more than opening up the system, inserting the drive, and securing it. It should not be an issue for anyone, even for users who are technically limited. Beyond that, once installed, formatting the drive, and getting ready for use is just a button click away. Performance-wise, from what I could gather, the speeds are good, and I did not see any difference between this and the default console drive; however, at least with the PS5 (more on that later), it seems I was not hitting the rated speed of the drive. I think this has to do with the PS5 and not the drive, but honestly, I am not sure. Regardless, this is more just something to note than a complaint, as I am not seeing any real-world differences, but it would be nice to get everything out of the drive that I could. As I mentioned earlier, I was mostly just looking for more storage capacity, and, well, it has taken care of that. It is nice to have some room to play with. Ultimately, I like this drive. It gave me the space I was looking for, with good speeds, and from a quality brand. You could probably find a cheaper drive, but I like knowing I’ve got some quality chips and a nice warranty just in case. Further, while I am currently using this in my PS5, I like knowing I could toss it in my computer if a need came up. I am also fairly confident I would hit those rated speeds if I did. All in all, for all that you get, I think this is a good value.

Got tired of redownloading games or transferring them from my old HHD.

I am using the Crucial T500 with heatsink to upgrade the storage on my PS5. This M2 Gen4 NVMe is also PC compatible, but I didn't test this in a PC. So please read this as a PS5 review. I will state first that I was a little nervous upgrade my PS5. I'm comfortable with my PC and laptop upgrades, but opening my PS5 was a first for me. There are plenty of YouTube guides to help, so after watching a few I took the plunge. First the Crucial T500 looks nice, the heatsink looks to be a full body heatsink so I don't think you could remove it - so if you buy this version, make sure you want the heatsink. Crucial also do make a non-heatsink version if that's what you need. This model comes with a "Works with PS5" label and there's not much in the box other than the T500 NVMe and a leaflet that points you to the Crucial website. The box reports that the drive has a 7400MB/s speed and a 5 year warranty. That speed is FAAAASST and a 5 year warranty is more than enough for the lifespan you would get out of your PS5. After install in my PS5, I was prompted to format the T500. This took a few seconds. When I copied across games from the internal PS5 drive (Spider-Man!) to the T500 it took less than a minute. There's no real way I can independently benchmark performance on my PS5 but I find those speeds impressive - the benefits of being a Gen4 drive! Overall, I absolutely recommend the Crucial T5000 2TB drive with the integrated heatsink as it makes it 100x better than what I was considering - a drive then buying a heatsink, thermal paste, etc. If you own a PS5 filled with games and DLCs, this is a MUST buy.

This is a really nice solid state drive from Crucial. They make good products. This isn't my first Crucial drive and my others are still working fine. I also have used their memory with good results. 2TB is pretty big and should provide quite a bit of additional storage space for large games or whatever you need to store on it. It appears to be intended for ps5 users with qualifying speeds and heatsink preinstalled. However I chose to install it in my desktop pc to test it with. It says it is also compatible with desktops so I figured it should work and it does work well in it. Not really designed for laptops though since the heatsink makes it a bit bulky for many laptops. They do make one without the heatsink for slightly less money if you want one for your laptop. If you have a larger laptop it might fit but I would opt for the one without the heatsink for most laptops. Nice looking and simple style with the heatsink if you have a desktop with a window to see it. Mine has a glass side which shows the components inside. The drive doesn't have any lights on it though but it doesn't really need any. If you want lights you will probably have to pay more. Good price and Crucial quality. Fast and easy to install especially if you have an empty slot to add it to. My desktop supports four m.2 drives and this is number three and it works well.

I gave my PS4 to my son when I was able to finally get my hands on a PS5. What I didn't think about was that some of the new releases were only going to be released on the PS5. I had to delete 2-3 games when my son was given Spider-man 2 for the PS5. I was frustrated but it was the right thing to do, and I could always replay the games but once I was given the opportunity to try out the T500 from Crucial I was pretty excited. I was a little nervous about taking apart my PS5. I removed the vertical stand...not sure that I actually needed to do that now that I think about it. I pulled up a YouTube video to get instruction and taking the front cover off and the installation was very easy. You just have to shift the cover down and up. Once the cover is removed, you have to remove the memory slot cover with a phillips-head screwdriver. Once the cover is off, you'll need to remove the stability screw as well. That will be re-inserted to hold the SSD in place. Insert the SSD drive, install the stability screw, and place the memory slot cover back on as well. Put the PS5 cover on and you are good to plug everything back in. Once the PS5 is back on, you will have to format the drive...just follow the prompts. It's actually very easy. I currently don't have the ability to test the speed as other uses have, but here is what I can tell you. I play in my basement on a wireless net work. I moved all of my other games to the Crucial SSD except for my Call Of Duty game. I have played every game I have a least once or twice after moving them all to the new SSD. I have had no issue in performance, glitching, or slow down. I do not feel any extra heat coming from the system. I highly recommend this for anyone looking to expand their gaming inventory and not wanting to break the bank. Performance is excellent and the installation was pretty simple.

I have always trusted Crucial for computer memory and storage. This Crucial T500 2TB Gen 4x4 M.2 Drive replaced a 1TB WD Black SN850X in my PS5 and it does not disappoint. After recently installing CoD Modern Warfare III, I found I was starting to hurt for space. The size of some of these games are just getting obscenely large. The cost of 2TB are fairly reasonable compared to 4TB drives. The Crucial T500 with the heatsink shroud is quite solid. I always handled m.2 SSDs quite delicately because I didn't want to risk damaging anything. With this guy I grabbed it out of the packaging and plopped it down next to my on my desk pad and popped open my PS5 and gingerly removed the bare WD M.2 and set it in the Crucial's packaging. I grabbed the T500 installed it in the slot and screwed it down satisfyingly with my finger firmly on top of it. Set the PS5 back in it's home and fired her up. PS5 recognized the drive and formatted it and I began installing those fat games again. Speed wise I saw no appreciable difference between the T500 and the WD. I just had double the space. I like the idea that heat should be better dissipated with the T500's heatsink as opposed to the bare WD M.2. This drive should hold me over until I need to double my storage again at which time I wouldn't hesitate to get another Crucial drive to replace the T500.

The Crucial T500 2TB Internal SSD with heatsink is an excellent hard drive. This is a PCIe Gen4 NVMe M.2 SSD that is compatible with the PS5, desktop PC and workstation. It has a read speed up to 7400 MB/s and is more than 2 times faster than Gen3. I chose to use it in my PS5 because it comes with a heatsink which is a requirement for any SSD being added to the PS5. I removed it from the box, brought my PS5 over to a table, and followed the official PS5 video tutorial for installing a SSD. This process will not void the PS5 warranty. Following the video tutorial, it took about 5 minutes total to install and reassemble the PS5. It was great to increase the hard drive space in the PS5 from 1TB to 3TB. It is just as fast as the hard drive that came with the PS5; I can't tell any difference in loading or installing games from the new hard drive. To start using it in the PS5, just go into the storage settings for the PS5 and set the rules for where you items to be stored. It accomplished exactly what I wanted it to do and was easy to install. I would recommend this SSD for any use!

This is the drive to get if you're looking to upgrade or expand storage on your laptop, PC or PS5 console. First, this drive is backwards compatible with Gen3 slots and this particular model has a heat sink pre-attached if you're installing it in to a console or PC where there is no pre-installed heatsink. It is a low profile and helps keep the drive cool, especially when you're putting it under heavy read/write operations like during gaming. For the boards that have a heatsink built-in Crucial offers one identical without the pre-installed heat sink. If you're into gaming whter on PC or PS5, I'd say this is a must-have upgrade, it is a supported drive for Microsoft's DirectStorage on Windows and obviously would be a great way to expand storage on a PS5. I'm looking forward to more PC games supporting Direct Storage and I'd say if you have PS5 I'd definitely get one of these as it cuts load times. As of right now there are not a ton of games on Windows that support this technology, but updates are coming to several titles I play that are supposed to get updates to take advantage of it. It's nice knowing that my machine is ready for it and I can't wait. It is however important to note that DirectStorage does not work with RAID enabled so I would recommend checking Microsoft's requirements to enable this feature via a Google search. That said, this drive even just compared to other older NVME drives is capable of loading things faster with it's blazing fast read and write times and even just copying large files or videos it's clear this drive is blazing fast. When running the CrystalDisk benchmark on my machine the read and write speeds are consistent with the advertised speeds, though it is worth noting that your motherboard, and software settings may vary results but it is fair to say it's in line with speeds advertised. At these speeds the bottleneck quickly become other areas in your system like the CPU/GPU and RAM with the Chipset/Motherboard. Ultimately, that makes this drive a good futureproof investment that should be able to last and what's impressive is that Crucial backs this drive with a 5 year warranty on top of that. So even if your current motherboard doesn't support Gen4 slots onboard the new board surely will and this drive will be ready. Alternatively, you can get a PCI-Express NVME adapter that supports Gen4 provided you have a PCI-E x4 slot available so that is another option to expand storage WITHOUT having upgrade your motherboard. Again, there may be other bottlenecks doing that and speeds would then be based on what the motherboard supports on the PCI-E bus/chipset, but it is a way to expand storage and take advantage of Gen4 speeds without totally changing your system. This is also a great way to just add storage for installing games to the drive (which is what I do) without having to move your OS installation, which requires a number of steps and an adapter if your PC or laptop does not have a second NVME slot. I'd recommend this drive, especially if you are looking to expand storage and having other Crucial drives I can say they are dependable and offer consistent performance over the long term or at least they have for me and this drive is no exception.

It is a very good PS5 drive, as per my PS5 it is as good as the SN850x it replaced. After formatting PS5 told me the speed was 5468. Now I understand that this drive is advertised for much higher read speed, close to 7K+ but only gets 5468 on PS5. The thing is that it is same for all the drives I have tested, my SN850X also gets close to 5500 mark and so does the Samsung 990 drive. So, nothing problematic here, I am sure if you set it to a PC and test it with CrystalDiskMark or some other tool, it will correctly report the sequential read speed as 7K plus. I think PS5 just average out a couple of benchmarks and reports the number. I further tested it and played few more games for some time. I faced no issue in 2 hours long session of last of us 2 remaster and Death Loop. I checked and the heatsink did it job perfectly, I could feel it was a little warm but no complaints from PS5. Please note I did not put the disk cover back. My PC also recognized it correctly using the M2 port but as it is bit dated with PCI 3.0 bus, it cannot utilize the full speed of this drive. Overall a very good disk standing at same spot at SN850X or Samsung 980.

I have been using the Crucial T500 now in my PS5 for a few weeks, well, my kids have due to myself the day I installed this having a medical emergency, and they told me it ran flawlessly the entire time and notice faster load times then the old W brand we were using. So, now that I am all good, I have took the past 3 days and really utilized my PS5 to the max, running Warzone, GT7, and ACC all off the Crucial T500 SSD. I can honestly agree with my kids, all 4 of them, the Crucial loads much faster than the old SSD, GT7 was almost instant screen for once, it blew me away. I have had zero issues with the transfer of data back and forth as well from the OE internal SSD and the Crucial T500. No data loses or gaming issues have yet to arise, it just works flawlessly. I do not know what else to say but that, it works exactly how Crucial sells them for, fast and effective PS5 storage space. Install was a breeze as usual, if you are afraid, watch a YouTube how to and do it, takes no more than 10 minutes taking your time to add in massive amounts of space for more games! You need this if you are buying these big games today, Until Sony and their competitors man up and give us the needed 10tb of space right out of the box, we will just have to support companies like Crucial so we can have what it should already. Do not be afraid to buy the T500 SSD, it works and works perfect.