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crucial launches 4tb t500 ssd, with slightly lower nominal read and write performance

2024-08-29

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it home reported on august 29 that crucial released the 4tb version of its pcie 4.0 nvme ssd t500 in the early morning of august 28 beijing time. the heatsink-free version of the drive is currently priced at $309.99 on the crucial official website (it home note: currently about rmb 2,209).

the t500 solid-state drive uses the m.2 2280 form factor and was originally released on october 31, 2023 local time. it was initially available in only three capacity options: 500gb, 1tb, and 2tb. the press release mentioned that the 4tb model will be available in 2024.

in terms of solution, crucial t500 uses micron's 232-layer 3d tlc nand flash memory and phison ps5025-e25 four-channel controller with 12nm process, equipped with external cache.

compared with the previously launched 2tb version, the 4tb version of t500 has a certain decline in nominal performance. it home summarizes it as follows:

capacity sequential read sequential write random read random write
4TB 7000 6900 1050 1350
2TB 7400 7000 1180 1440

the sequential read and write unit is mb/s, and the random read and write unit is k iops

the 4tb version of the crucial t500 ssd has a 5-year limited warranty and a guaranteed write capacity of 2400tb.