{"video_id":"QM_EkktHjr4","title":"Crucial M500 SSD Unboxing","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2013-05-07T14:53:29Z","duration_s":215,"segments":[{"start_s":0.04,"end_s":7.52,"text":"welcome to my unboxing and first look at the M500 SSD from crucial now this one's","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":5.359,"end_s":12.08,"text":"going to be pretty short because it's another SSD so there's not a whole lot","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":9.679,"end_s":17.119,"text":"to say about it with respect to like well it's got great cable management and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":14.44,"end_s":21.68,"text":"uh you know the widgets are optimized for the thing whatever else so basically","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":19.64,"end_s":25.519,"text":"this is using micron's latest 20 nanometer flash so if you guys don't","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":23.56,"end_s":29.0,"text":"know this already Micron is crucial's 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480","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":169.959,"end_s":177.76,"text":"uh ultimately I could have done 960 divided by 2 is 480 uh so 480 or 960","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":175.68,"end_s":182.08,"text":"gigs now the pricing scales in sort of a weird fashion with I mean the past it","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":180.4,"end_s":186.44,"text":"used to be that the high-capacity drives carried a price premium in terms of","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":184.04,"end_s":190.64,"text":"dollars per gig over the lower-end ones but with the M500 it actually scales","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":188.879,"end_s":194.599,"text":"downwards in terms of price per gig as you go to a greater capacity so you can","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":192.36,"end_s":199.519,"text":"see what crucial's doing here is they're really pushing the adop adoption of ssds","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":197.799,"end_s":203.36,"text":"as a high-capacity storage which is extremely exciting so there you go guys","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":201.72,"end_s":208.28,"text":"if you wanted to drop 600 bucks on an SSD tomorrow it would be pretty hard for","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":205.959,"end_s":211.519,"text":"me to not recommend the 1 tbte M500 you can actually store all your data on it","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":210.04,"end_s":216.12,"text":"don't forget to subscribe to L Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"welcome to my unboxing and first look at the M500 SSD from crucial now this one's going to be pretty short because it's another SSD so there's not a whole lot to say about it with respect to like well it's got great cable management and uh you know the widgets are optimized for the thing whatever else so basically this is using micron's latest 20 nanometer flash so if you guys don't know this already Micron is crucial's parent company it comes with a three-year warranty this is the first major iteration they've made to their SSD lineup since the M4 on the consumer side anyway so the M4 has been an awesome SSD part of what gives me a lot of confidence recommending uh crucial ssds is the fact that the M4 was so well supported they found firmwar bugs before it ever actually became a problem with people with people's drives that were actually deployed in the field so there was one where the drive would just stopped working after X number of hours their lab was still working on QA and testing and found it before it ever became a problem so that kind of stuff is is really really really good to see the drive itself is Slim so it'll fit in a 7 mm 2 and 1/2 inch enclosure or it comes with a spacer on it so you can go ahead and add an extra 2 mm to it so it'll fit in a standard 9mm spot I guess you put that on the bottom or the top or it's up to you I don't really know um oh yeah you put that on on here on the top you got a simple label here uh you've got some mounting holes you've got their like super like 80s looking package packaging I really liked the old packaging for their drives better than this uh this is cool so they've added a couple things they've added Hardware data encryption which is becoming a more important feature basically what that does is it's a BIOS level lock so you have to enter a password just to boot up the computer and have access to the drive that just keeps your data more safe uh adaptive thermal protection has also been added it's got a three-year warranty still um the thing about C about crucial drives is that unlike sandforce based drives which I mean Intel's using uh lots of companies are using it is not dependent on the data being compressible so you're able to do up to 500 megabytes per second reads 400 megabytes per second rights and that is regardless of the type of data and this particular Drive is good for up to around 880,000 iops on the high end of the capacity so as drives scaling capacity the performance does tend to go up and that is one of the things that's most exceptional about the M500 it is available in a 960 gig capacity for a price of around $600 making it the most reasonably priced terabyte class Drive available now this one right here is 128 gig so you can get 128 256 512 or this 960 sorry was it sorry 12240 um a brain fart there 240 time 2 is 480 uh ultimately I could have done 960 divided by 2 is 480 uh so 480 or 960 gigs now the pricing scales in sort of a weird fashion with I mean the past it used to be that the high-capacity drives carried a price premium in terms of dollars per gig over the lower-end ones but with the M500 it actually scales downwards in terms of price per gig as you go to a greater capacity so you can see what crucial's doing here is they're really pushing the adop adoption of ssds as a high-capacity storage which is extremely exciting so there you go guys if you wanted to drop 600 bucks on an SSD tomorrow it would be pretty hard for me to not recommend the 1 tbte M500 you can actually store all your data on it don't forget to subscribe to L Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos"}