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