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Crucial MX500 1TB M.2. SSD review - Specifications & Features

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 05/09/2018 11:16 AM [ 4] 8 comment(s)

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Specifications & Features

Crucial will be offering three versions of the MX500 M.2. which capacities of 250 GB, 500 GB and 1 TB. The sample that has arrived for testing is the 1 TB version of the drive. The MX500 series as stated will be fitted with TLC (Triple-level cell) written NAND flash memory from Micron. This allows Crucial to offer the big storage volume at a lower price point.  For the MX series, Crucial moved away completely from planar towards 3D (vertically stacked) Micron NAND, and that should give it a nice boost in (especially write) performance when compared to for example the BX200 series. 3D NAND is physical vertical NAND cell stacking not to be confused with chip stacking in a multi-chip package. In 3D NAND, NAND layers, not chips, are stacked in a single IC. The good news is continued cost reduction, smaller die sizes and more capacity per NAND chip. Also, installed NAND toolsets in the wafer fabs can, for the most part, be reused, thereby extending the useful life of the fab equipment. The NAND ICs are driven by a Silicon Motion SM2258 controller as well as a DRAM cache and a small partition that will be SLC written to keep write performance up-to-snuff.

Specifications
  • Sequential reads/writes up to 560/ 510 MB/s on all file types
  • Random reads/writes up to 95k on all file types
  • Over 90x more energy efficient than a typical hard drive
  • Accelerated by Micron 3D NAND technology 64 Layer TLC
  • Dynamic Write Acceleration delivers faster saves and file transfers
  • More durable than a hard drive – no small moving parts that are prone to failure
  • Adaptive Thermal Protection allows for adaptive cooling
  • 5 year limited warranty

For those that wonder, why did Crucial skip the MX400 series? Well, the number four apparently doesn't sit well in Asian countries, much like the number thirteen in western countries, that's all there is to it. Pricing (MSRP) is set at 259 USD for the 1 TB model, so yes that's hovering at the 26 cents per GB marker as well as getting 5 years warranty. Street prices are even a notch lower, so for brevities sake, let's call this a 23~25 cents per GB SSD series.
 

Crucial MX Series
Volume MX500 1024GB BX300 480 GB MX300 750GB MX200 500GB MX200 1TB
Form Factors 2.5" / M.2 2.5" 2.5" 2.5", mSATA, M.2 2.5"
Controller Silicon Motion SM2258XT Silicon Motion SM2258XT Marvell 88SS1074 Marvell 88SS9189
NAND Micron 64-layer 3D TLC Micron 64-layer 3D MLC Micron 32-layer 3D TLC Micron 16nm 128Gbit MLC
DRAM 1024 MB 512MB 512MB 512MB 1GB
Sequential Read 560MB/s 555MB/s 530MB/s 555MB/s 555MB/s
Sequential Write 510MB/s 510MB/s 510MB/s 500MB/s 500MB/s
4KB Random Read  95K IOPS 95K IOPS 92K IOPS 100K IOPS 100K IOPS
4KB Random Write  90K IOPS 95K IOPS 83K IOPS 87K IOPS 87K IOPS
Sleep Mode 4mW 4mW 4mW 2mW 2mW
Idle 65mW 75mW 75mW 100mW 100mW
Max Power 5.0W 5.2W 5.2W 4.7W 5.2W
Endurance 360TBW 160TBW 220TBW 160TBW 320TBW
Five years Three years
Price $259.99 (MSRP) $149.99 (MSRP) $199.99 (MSRP) $139.00 $269.94

 
Endurance then, as defined by the laws of math and physics, it will vary per volume size, but Crucial is rating it as follows. Endurance in Terabytes Written are:

  • 1TB (360 TBW)
  • 500GB (180 TBW)
  • 250GB (100 TBW)

So with our 1 TB model, we could, in theory, write 197 GB each day and per day for five years. Considering an avid end-user that heavily uses its SSD writes roughly 20 GB per day, you can do the math with me:

  • 20GB x 365 days = 7.3 TB per year. With the 1TB version, 360 TB : 7.3 TB = 49.3 Years ....  That's TLC anno 2018 lads & gents.



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