Crucial

Crucial T500 2TB

Crucial T500Launch price $169.99 (2TB without heatsink, price at launch (StorageReview))

Amazon · 2TB with heatsink (CT2000T500SSD5) Check price on Amazon
3DMark Storage 5,068points#6 of 11 PCMark 10 Storage 4,781points#6 of 11 Sustained write 4,066MB/s#1 of 10 CrystalDiskMark sequential Read7,120MB/s#7 of 9

A PCIe 4.0 drive with DRAM and Micron 232-layer flash, and one of the fastest Gen4 drives in Tom's game and application traces. It also holds about 4 GB/s in long writes, far more than most Gen4 drives.

Against the line-up

3DMark Storage points

#6 of 11 · Tom's Hardware
  1. 1SN8100 2TB8,100
  2. 2Renegade G5 2TB7,337
  3. 3T705 2TB6,739
  4. 4T710 2TB6,647
  5. 59100 Pro 2TB6,371
  6. 6T500 2TB5,068
  7. 7990 Pro 2TB4,816

PCMark 10 Storage points

#6 of 11 · Tom's Hardware
  1. 1SN8100 2TB7,694
  2. 2Renegade G5 2TB6,893
  3. 39100 Pro 2TB6,597
  4. 4T710 2TB6,583
  5. 5T705 2TB6,541
  6. 6T500 2TB4,781
  7. 7P310 2TB4,674

Sustained write MB/s

#1 of 10 · Tom's Hardware
  1. 1T500 2TB4,066
  2. 2T710 2TB4,050
  3. 3T705 2TB4,029
  4. 4SN8100 2TB3,892

CrystalDiskMark sequential Read · MB/s

#7 of 9 · StorageReview; † another publication
  1. 1SN8100 2TB14,307
  2. 2Renegade G5 2TB14,302
  3. 3T710 2TB14,293
  4. 49100 Pro 2TB14,287
  5. 6SN7100 2TB7,137
  6. 7T500 2TB7,120†
  7. 8990 EVO Plus 2TB7,116

The whole SSDs line-up side by side, with prices

Every benchmark

Quoted from the publications that ran them; we don't test hardware ourselves. Figures from different publications were run on different systems and scenes, so compare within a row's source.

CrystalDiskMark sequential

SettingResultSource
Read 7,120MB/s StorageReview, Nov 1, 2023
Published as 7.12GB/s, converted to MB/s
7,259MB/s KitGuru, Oct 31, 2023
CrystalDiskMark 8 default test (SEQ1M Q8T1)
Write
one source		 6,866MB/s KitGuru, Oct 31, 2023
CrystalDiskMark 8 default test (SEQ1M Q8T1)

3DMark Storage

SettingResultSource
Standard run
one source		 5,068points Tom's Hardware, Mar 18, 2025
Intel Core i9-12900K
Comparison drive in the Samsung 9100 Pro review

PCMark 10 Storage

SettingResultSource
Standard run
one source		 4,781points Tom's Hardware, Mar 18, 2025
Intel Core i9-12900K
Comparison drive in the Samsung 9100 Pro review

Sustained write

SettingResultSource
Standard run
one source		 4,066MB/s Tom's Hardware, Mar 18, 2025
Intel Core i9-12900K
Steady state: average MB/s after 15 minutes of 1MiB sequential writes at QD32. Comparison drive in the Samsung 9100 Pro review

Sources

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