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Crucial MX500 1TB and 500GB SSD Review – A Must Have SSD?

Crucial MX500 SSD AS SSD Benchmark Results

The AS SSD benchmark determines the performance of Solid State Drives (SSD). The tool contains six synthetic and three copy tests. The synthetic tests determine the sequential and random read and write performance of the SSD. These tests are carried out without using the operating system’s cache. In Sequential test the program measures how long it takes to read a 1 GB file to write respectively. 4K test the read and write performance is determined at random 4K blocks. These tests should represent the Native Command Queuing (NCQ). The additional compression test can measure the power of the SSD in response to compressibility of the data. This is especially for the controllers that use to increase the performance and life of the cell compression, important.

(1TB left, 500GB right)
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Again, we see the MX500 SSDs with just a tiny difference compared to the BX300 and MX300 in this test. Next page let’s see how they perform on the CrystalDiskMark benchmark tests.

Crucial MX500 SSD Series latest pricing and availability:
For US: available on Amazon.com here
For UK: available on Amazon UK here

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