Crucial T500 2TB PCIe Gen4 SSD Review

We used CrystalDiskMark 8‘s custom settings to test the Sequential read and write performance of the drive through a range of queue depths. The setup for the tests is listed below.

128KB Sequential Read / Write.

Transfer Request Size: 128KB, Thread(s): 1, Outstanding I/O: 1-32.

In this test, we couldn't quite hit the official maximum Sequential read and write speeds of 7,400MB/s and 7,000MB/s respectively with a best-read result of 7,223.19MB/s and a best-write figure of 6,811.07MB/s.

128KB Sequential Read v QD compared

At QDs 1 and 2, the T500 is the fastest Gen 4 drive we've seen to date. At QD 4 it slips behind WD's Black SN850X heatsink drive and at QD32 it lies in a low middle position in the results table.

128KB Sequential Write v QD compared

At QD1 the drive sits in the lower half of the Sequential write results chart. QDs 2, 4 and 32 see the drive climb to a mid-table position.

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