Crucial / Micron 2.5 inch M510DC Enterprise Class Series SATA600

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 5 expert reviews

Excellent:

3
Good:

2
Average:

0
Bad:

0

Pros:

Build Quality (2 Million Hours MTBF), Endurance / Durability (2 DWPD), Very Good All Around Performance, Top In Our 12 Hour IOMeter SNIA Test, Power Loss Protection (13 Tantalum Capacitors), TCGE Support, 5 Year Warranty, Available In 960GB
Cost, Fast random write performance, Low power consumption, Stout endurance

Cons:

Overall Performance Could Be Better, Price (For Some)
Limited capacity options, Low sequential write performance

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Last revision on September 7, 2017

Reviewers Liked

Build Quality (2 Million Hours MTBF), Endurance / Durability (2 DWPD), Very Good All Around Performance, Top In Our 12 Hour IOMeter SNIA Test, Power Loss Protection (13 Tantalum Capacitors), TCGE Support, 5 Year Warranty, Available In 960GB
Cost, Fast random write performance, Low power consumption, Stout endurance

Reviewers Didn't Like

Overall Performance Could Be Better, Price (For Some)
Limited capacity options, Low sequential write performance

Expert reviews and ratings

As was stated earlier, the Micron M510DC targets the intensely competitive ‘Read Centric, Low Cost' market segment. We have tested a number of its key competitors in the past – The Samsung 845DC EVO, the Toshiba THNSNJnnnPCSZ, and the Intel DC S3500....

By MyCE on September 11, 2015

Micron M510DC delivers great endurance at an entry level price point. With sequential speeds reaching over the rated specs of 420MB/s read and 380MB/s write as well as market segment leading random write performance, the M510DC should prove to be quite...

By thessdreview.com on July 14, 2015

Although we haven't had the chance to test the M500DC by Micron the M510DC proved to be a worthy opponent against both enterprise grade and consumer oriented SSDs (at least the ones in our charts) and on top of that it's the fastest model in our 12 hour...

By NikkTech on October 01, 2015

By MyCE on September 11, 2015

Let us summarise the most important positive and negative points for the Micron M510DC.What can I say is that I was pleasantly surprised with the Micron M510DC, the build quality of the drive, the features that it has, and the fact that it almost...

By MyCE on September 09, 2015

Let us summarise the most important positive and negative points for the Micron M510DC.To sum up, this is what I would sayWhat can I say is that I was pleasantly surprised with the Micron M510DC, the build quality of the drive, the features that it has,...

By MyCE on September 09, 2015

Over the past few years, Micron has really been rounding out their enterprise SSD lineup with not only high end PCIe SSDs such as the Micron P420m and the Micron P320h, but also value products such as the M500DC and now the M510DC. Personally, I think...

By custompcreview.com on August 11, 2015

I'll start with the positive sides of the M510DC. First off, the M510DC delivers higher endurance than the most read-focused drives. Samsung 845DC EVO and Intel's DC S3510 both come in at only 0.3 DWPD with SanDisk's CloudSpeed Eco being rated at 1...

By AnandTech on July 28, 2015

The M510DC is a feature rich enterprise-class product that that will offer solid performance for read-centric applications at a competitive price...

By tomsitpro.com on July 13, 2015