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Product Launch: Crucial T500 PCIe Gen4 NVMe SSD

Crucial T500 SSD with & without heatsink

Published 31 October 2023

Introducing the Crucial T500 Gen4 SSD with and without heatsink

Crucial T500 Gen4 SSD with heatsink 

Fuel your system performance with the Crucial® T500 Gen4 NVMe® SSD. Load games up to 16% faster with sequential read and write speeds up to 7,400MB/s and 7,000MB/s (up to 1.18M/1.44M IOPs random reads/writes). Perfect for PS5™, the T500 serves up faster gaming, video editing, and 3D rendering. Easy to install and with up to 2TB of storage, the T500 gives you plenty of space for all your games or projects. Built with cutting-edge TLC NAND, up to a 40% performance-to-power ratio4, and speeds that are 2x faster than Gen3, the T500 optimises your system performance so it can work faster with less power. Enabled for Microsoft® DirectStorage, the T500 also supports faster renders and reduced CPU utilisation for a richer gaming experience.

Best For: Gamers, content creators, video editors, graphic designers, PS5 owners 

Key Features:

  • Fast: Up to 7,400/7,000MB/s sequential reads/writes
  • Spacious: 2TB and 1TB
  • Heatsink: heat dissipation in a sleek design
  • Gaming: Ideal heatsink upgrade for PlayStation® 5 (PS5™)
  • Featuring: Microsoft® DirectStorage enabled
  • Generation: PCIe® 4.0 NVMe M.2 2280 SSD
  • Innovation: The world’s first 232-layer TLC NAND engineered by Micron®
  • Warranty: 5-year limited

Crucial T500 Gen4 SSD (non-heatsink)

Fuel your system performance with the Crucial® T500 Gen4 NVMe® SSD. Load games up to 16% faster with sequential read and write speeds up to 7,400MB/s and 7,000MB/s (up to 1.18/1.44M IOPs random reads/writes). The T500 serves up faster gaming, video editing, and 3D rendering. Easy to install and ready for use with your laptop, desktop, or motherboard, the T500 serves up faster gaming, video editing, 3D rendering and more with up to 2TB of storage. Built with cutting-edge TLC NAND, up to a 40% performance-to-power ratio4, and speeds that are 2x faster than Gen3, the T500 optimizes your system performance so it can work faster with less power. Enabled for Microsoft® DirectStorage, the T500 also supports faster renders and reduced CPU utilization for a richer gaming experience.

Best For:  Content creators, video editors, and graphic designers 

Key Features:

  • Fast: Up to 7,400/7,000MB/s sequential reads/writes
  • Spacious: 2TB, 1TB and 500GB
  • Heatsink compatible: Perfect for your laptop or desktop
  • Featuring: Microsoft ® DirectStorage enabled
  • Generation: PCIe® 4.0 NVMe M.2 2280 SSD
  • Innovation: The world’s first 232-layer TLC NAND engineered by Micron
  • Warranty: 5-year limited

Crucial T500 Product Reviews

 

“Crucial's T500 Gen4 SSD is the world's best-performing 4-channel SSD, capable of vastly outperforming almost every 8-channel Gen4 SSD ever made”

Tweak Town - Editors Choice Award

T500 performed superbly against other elite PCI Express 4.0 SSDs in our benchmark testing, posting excellent results in both general storage and gaming tests

PC Mag.com - Editor Choice Award

The T500 is one of the fastest PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs I’ve tested. It’s affordable for its ilk and available with a low-profile heatsink for another $10.

PCWorld - Editor Choice Award

“T500 is the fastest Gen4 drive that I have tested and offers a blistering fast NVMe performance” 

WCCF Tech - Recommended Award

"The Crucial T500 is among the best full-featured PCIe 4.0 internal solid-state drives you can buy for building or upgrading a high-end PC."

 The SSD Review - Editors Choice Award

“This is one of the fastest-claimed PCIe 4.0 SSDs on the planet..”

Forbes

Part numberDescription
CT500T500SSD8Crucial T500 500GB PCIe Gen4 NVMe M.2 SSD
CT1000T500SSD8Crucial T500 1TB PCIe Gen4 NVMe M.2 SSD
CT2000T500SSD8Crucial T500 2TB PCIe Gen4 NVMe M.2 SSD
CT1000T500SSD5Crucial T500 1TB PCIe Gen4 NVMe M.2 SSD with heatsink
CT2000T500SSD5Crucial T500 2TB PCIe Gen4 NVMe M.2 SSD with heatsink
CT500T500SSD8JPCrucial T500 500GB PCIe Gen4 NVMe M.2 SSD
CT1000T500SSD8JPCrucial T500 1TB PCIe Gen4 NVMe M.2 SSD
CT2000T500SSD8JPCrucial T500 2TB PCIe Gen4 NVMe M.2 SSD
CT1000T500SSD5JPCrucial T500 1TB PCIe Gen4 NVMe M.2 SSD with heatsink
CT2000T500SSD5JPCrucial T500 2TB PCIe Gen4 NVMe M.2 SSD with heatsink

These parts are now in stock and available to purchase. Learn more about the Crucial T500 SSD range by speaking to your Simms Account Manager.