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
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