Tuesday, April 9th 2013
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Crucial M500 SSD Series Now Available
Crucial started shipping its M500 line of consumer SSDs. Available in 2.5-inch SATA (7 mm-thick), mSATA, and NGFF M.2 form-factors, the drives combine Micron 20 nm MLC NAND flash with a Marvell-made processor. All three form-factors take advantage of 6 Gb/s SATA. The drive is available in 120 GB, 240 GB, and 480 GB capacities for all three form-factors, while the 2.5-inch gets a 960 GB "terabyte-class" capacity option, as well.
Sequential read speeds on all capacities are as high as 500 MB/s, while sequential write speeds cap out at 130 MB/s and 250 MB/s for the 120 GB and 240 GB variants, respectively; and reach 400 MB/s on the 480 GB and 960 GB variants. The drives are backed by 3-year limited warranties, 1.2 million hours MTBF, and 72 TB total bytes written (TBW) write endurance (that's 40 GB per day). TRIM, NCQ, and SMART are standard issue. The 120 GB, 240 GB, 480 GB, and 960 GB variants are priced at US $129.99, $219.99, $399.99, and $599.99, respectively.
Sequential read speeds on all capacities are as high as 500 MB/s, while sequential write speeds cap out at 130 MB/s and 250 MB/s for the 120 GB and 240 GB variants, respectively; and reach 400 MB/s on the 480 GB and 960 GB variants. The drives are backed by 3-year limited warranties, 1.2 million hours MTBF, and 72 TB total bytes written (TBW) write endurance (that's 40 GB per day). TRIM, NCQ, and SMART are standard issue. The 120 GB, 240 GB, 480 GB, and 960 GB variants are priced at US $129.99, $219.99, $399.99, and $599.99, respectively.
27 Comments on Crucial M500 SSD Series Now Available
Even the old Plextor M3 is faster - www.plextor-digital.com/index.php/en/M3/m3.html
Most interesting part here is the 960 www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148696
Look at that price compared to the 480 www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148695
This stuff is just going to get lower and lower.
www.amazon.com/dp/B00BQ8RGL6/?tag=tec06d-20
M4 was a great leap from C300.
Also, the naming scheme is confusing.
Cxxx, then Mx, now Mxxx.
Why!?
5970 vs. 6970
8800GTX vs. 9800GTX
etc.
Even in the games where the superior computational performance of the 9800GTX allowed it to pull-ahead, at any reasonable level of resolution and AA, its narrower memory bus left the 8800GTX with superior minimum FPS.
Micron basically already offers what you're looking for (at a much higher price) in the form of the p320h. 1.75GB/s sequential reads.
www.micron.com/products/solid-state-storage/enterprise-pcie-ssd/p320h-25-inch-pcie-ssd