Crucial has announced that its new T500 Gen4 NVMe SSD is available now in 500 GB (non-heatsink), as well as 1 TB and 2 TB capacities (either with or without a heatsink), on crucial.com and from leading retail and e-tail stores and commercial resellers worldwide. Described by Crucial as being “lightning fast,” these are new M.2 2280 PCIe 4.0 SSDs from the company that feature Micron’s advanced 232-layer 3D NAND technology, offering sequential read and write speeds of up to 7,400 MB/s and 7,000 MB/s, respectively. They also feature support for Microsoft DirectStorage, enabling what Crucial says is up to 16% faster loading times in select games. A 4 TB version of the T500 will be available later in 2024, while Crucial’s fastest NVMe SSD appears to be the T700, a PCIe Gen 5 option that offers speeds of up to 12,400 MB/s.
Crucial T500 Gen4 NVMe SSD Key Features
- Read speeds up to 7,400MB/s
- Write speeds up to 7,000MB/s
- Capacities: 2TB, 1TB, 500GB
- NVMe technology
- Available with heatsink
- 5-Year limited warranty
“With growing game libraries and creative applications demanding higher bandwidth, gamers, content creators and professionals don’t just expect the highest performance from their storage, they need it,” said Jonathan Weech, senior director of Micron’s Commercial Product Marketing Group. “By leveraging Micron’s powerful, cutting-edge 232-layer TLC NAND, the Crucial T500 Gen4 NVMe SSD unleashes system performance while using less power.”
The T500 offers up to a 40% higher performance-to-power ratio, and speeds that are two times faster than the previous Gen3 NVMe SSD offering. With lightning-fast sequential read and write speeds up to 7,400MB/s and 7,000MB/s respectively, Crucial T500 SSDs enable gamers to load games up to 16% faster, get quicker game texture renders and reduced CPU utilization with Microsoft DirectStorage. Likewise, it is easy to install and has up to 2TB of storage – making it perfect for PS5 upgrades or UHD/8K+ videos. The T500 also delivers up to 42% faster performance in content creation applications, allowing users to run heavy workloads and render photos or videos faster.