Crucial T500 2TB PCIe Gen4 SSD Review

1. Introduction2. Crucial T500 Pro 2TB3. Testing Methodology4. CrystalDiskMark5. ATTO Disk Benchmark6. AS SSD7. 128KB Sequential Performance8. 4K Random Read v QD Performance9. 4K Random Write v QD Performance10. 4K 70/30 Mixed Performance11. 4K Random Performance QD1-QD812. Throughput13. PCMark 10 Full System Drive Benchmark14. 3DMark Storage Benchmark 15. Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker Official Benchmark16. Tempretures17. Real Life File Testing18. Closing Thoughts19. View All Pages

AS SSD is a great free tool designed just for benching Solid State Drives. It performs an array of sequential read-and-write tests, as well as random read-and-write tests with sequential access times over a portion of the drive. It uses incompressible data samples which many drives struggle with, so results can be viewed as the worst case scenarios.

AS SSD includes a sub suite of benchmarks with various file pattern algorithms but this is difficult in trying to judge accurate performance figures.

With an AS SSD read score of 3987, the 2TB T500 is the fastest Gen 4 consumer drive we've seen to date. However, its write score of 6215 is even more impressive as it's the third fastest score we've seen to date for any 2TB NVMe consumer drive regardless of interface.

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