Tuesday, October 31st 2023
Crucial Launches New T500 Gen 4 NVMe SSD
Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU), today announced the availability of the Crucial T500 Gen 4 NVMe SSD as an expansion of its award-winning NVMe solid-state drive (SSD) portfolio. The Crucial T500 SSD is a best-in-class PCIe 4.0 NVMe drive, which leverages Micron's advanced 232-layer 3D NAND technology with industry-leading NAND I/O speeds of 2.4 gigabytes per second (GB/s) and is engineered to improve performance for console and PC gamers, photo and video editors and content creators. Available in two options, the T500 SSD with the heatsink is specifically designed for platforms like the PlayStation 5 (PS5) and PC gaming rigs, while the version without the heatsink fits well in laptops, desktops and workstations.
The T500 offers up to a 40% higher performance-to-power ratio, and speeds that are two times faster than the previous Gen 3 NVMe SSD offering. With lightning-fast sequential read and write speeds up to 7,400 MB/s and 7,000 MB/s respectively, Crucial T500 SSDs enable gamers to load games up to 16% faster, get quicker game texture renders and reduced CPU utilization with Microsoft DirectStorage. Likewise, it is easy to install and has up to 2 TB of storage - making it perfect for PS5 upgrades or UHD/8K+ videos. The T500 also delivers up to 42% faster performance in content creation applications, allowing users to run heavy workloads and render photos or videos faster.
"With growing game libraries and creative applications demanding higher bandwidth, gamers, content creators and professionals don't just expect the highest performance from their storage, they need it," said Jonathan Weech, senior director of Micron's Commercial Product Marketing Group. "By leveraging Micron's powerful, cutting-edge 232-layer TLC NAND, the Crucial T500 Gen 4 NVMe SSD unleashes system performance while using less power."
The Crucial T500 Gen 4 NVMe SSD is available now in 500 GB (non-heatsink), 1 TB and 2 TB capacities (both with the heatsink and without the heatsink) on crucial.com, from leading retail and e-tail stores and commercial resellers worldwide. A 4 TB option will be available in 2024.
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The T500 offers up to a 40% higher performance-to-power ratio, and speeds that are two times faster than the previous Gen 3 NVMe SSD offering. With lightning-fast sequential read and write speeds up to 7,400 MB/s and 7,000 MB/s respectively, Crucial T500 SSDs enable gamers to load games up to 16% faster, get quicker game texture renders and reduced CPU utilization with Microsoft DirectStorage. Likewise, it is easy to install and has up to 2 TB of storage - making it perfect for PS5 upgrades or UHD/8K+ videos. The T500 also delivers up to 42% faster performance in content creation applications, allowing users to run heavy workloads and render photos or videos faster.
The Crucial T500 Gen 4 NVMe SSD is available now in 500 GB (non-heatsink), 1 TB and 2 TB capacities (both with the heatsink and without the heatsink) on crucial.com, from leading retail and e-tail stores and commercial resellers worldwide. A 4 TB option will be available in 2024.
17 Comments on Crucial Launches New T500 Gen 4 NVMe SSD
make sure they are cooled
make sure they aren’t QLC
Perhaps the reviews/tests will reveal something, anything, to make it "competitive" but crucial usually doesn't offer much of a difference vs. other mfgr's....
And they better get that 4TB version out real soon (like yesterday) if competitive is their goal :D
@Denver:Noticed the failures how ? From your own uses, or just forum posts/media reports/rumours etc ?
Just wondering :)
only gen 5 uses those advanced nand far as i know
www.techpowerup.com/ssd-specs/filter/?interface=PCIe%204.0%20x4&layers=15&layersRange=H
Looks like some reviews are already out.
www.tomshardware.com/reviews/crucial-2tb-t500-ssd-review
100% of my QLC drives are now dead. | TechPowerUp Forums -> This sparked my interest in researching the brand.
I do miss the good old days when Intel had very reliable and consistant consumer SATA SSDs and you'll have to rip my Intel Optane 900p drives out of my cold dead hands before I change my Desktop boot drive and out of my homelab... But we all value different things
Compare the specs to the P5 Plus, it doesn't stand a chance, especially when combined with slower NAND.
www.techpowerup.com/ssd-specs/crucial-p5-plus-2-tb.d108
That plus the firmware issues? Nope.