Crucial BX500 SSD

The Crucial BX500 is a solid, budget-friendly 2.5-inch SATA SSD with a value bent, but at our test capacity, the company's own MX500 is a better choice for...

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Crucial's BX500 is a cheap option that will outperform any HDD as a boot drive, but it comes with drawbacks. The BX500's low endurance and application performance rank far behind most current-gen SSDs in the market. Pricing is competitive, but there are...

Crucial once reigned supreme in the entry-level SSD market segment but this a segment that has become ferociously competitive so to give the Crucial BX500 a fighting chance, Crucial have gone all out to keep the cost of building the drive as low as...

The BX500 is all about value. The SSD's speed performance is very fast for normal usage and temporary intense workload. The Crucial BX500 is one of the most budget-friendly drives in the 500GB range since the DRAM chip was not included.The BX500 480GB...

Good RAID performance on the cheap The Crucial BX500 is going to be a very controversial model. A controversial model that is not going to impress mainstream buyers all that much. Thankfully it doesn't have to. Its market niche is the entry level,...

The Crucial BX500 480 GB SSD is currently available online for $80. Extremely affordable, just 17 cents per GB Excellent sequential read and write performance Solid real-life application performance DRAM-less design reduces cost Weak random writes High...

Value is what the BX500 series is all about, and it is exactly that. But is it good value? I am inclined to say yes, as the SSD is plenty fast for normal usage and even some temporary heavy workloads. The Achilles heel is a bottleneck after 32 GB writes...