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Crucial T500 2TB PCIe Gen4 SSD Review

CrystalDiskMark is a useful benchmark to measure the theoretical performance levels of hard drives and SSDs. We are using v8.0.

In CrystalDiskMark 8's 4K QD1 T1 test, the 2TB Crucial T500 sits inside the top 10 with a read speed of 85.16MB/s. However, its write speed of 306.03MB/s is more impressive, as it's the second fastest write speed we've seen for a Gen 4 drive to date, just behind the 4TB version of Lexar's MN790 drive.

As you can see from the benchmark result screens the drive fell just short of the official maximum Sequential read/write figures for the 2TB drive of 7,400MB/s and 7,000MB/s for Sequential read and writes respectively, with test figures of 7,259MB/s for reads and 6,866MB/s for writes.

Those Sequential results see the drive in the bottom half of the results chart.

Peak Performance Profile.

Using the Peak Performance profile of the CrystalDiskMark benchmark we were once again a little short of the maximum official Sequential performance figures.

Looking at the benchmark screens we couldn't quite hit the official random read figure of 1,180,000 IOPS with a test result of 1,156,599 IOPS but we could at least confirm the random write figure, the tested 1,458,281 IOPS was even a little faster than the official 1,440,000 IOPS.


Using CrystalDiskMark 8's Real World profile, the T500 produced read and write scores of 5,801MB/s and 5,977MB/s, which are the fastest we've seen to date in this test for a 2TB Gen 4 drive.

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