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The great value Crucial MX500 SSD is going cheap in the UK today1TB for £66 or 2TB for £138 sounds pretty good to us.
1TB for £66 or 2TB for £138 sounds pretty good to us.
The Crucial MX500 SATA SSD is going cheap in the UK this week, as Amazon have discounted the 1TB model to £66 while CCL are selling the 2TB size for £138. Both are the cheapest we’ve ever seen the MX500, making it a great time to upgrade your desktop or laptop with a reliable SSD.
Crucial MX500 1TB - £66(was £107)
Crucial MX500 2TB SSD - £138(was £205)
The MX500 doesn’t appear on the RPS list of thebest SSDs for gaming, with the sagely James preferring the faster but slightly more expensive Samsung 870 Evo, but over at Digital Foundry we’ve recommended it for some time due to its reliability, performance and value.
So why do we rate it? Well, the MX500 has a DRAM cache and uses TLC NAND, so it avoids the two most common cost-saving methods that tend to have a deleterious effect on sustained performance. That makes the MX500 suitable for use as an OS drive, as well as a cheaper option for game and media storage than an NVMe SSD. With sequential read and write speeds of 560MB/s and 510MB/s, respectively, the MX500 is right at the limits of the SATA interface.
Beyond the specs, Crucial has a long history of producing good, reliable drives, and the MX500 is no exception. I’ve had one running in my GPU test rig for some time as additional storage, and I’ve never had any issues - presumably, the 50 thousand people on Amazon that have left a review also had a good impression of the drive, given its 96% average review score.
If you have any storage questions, leave them below; otherwise, I’ll see you for another deal very soon!
