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Crucial – T500 2TB Internal SSD PCIe Gen 4×4 NVMe M.2 with Heatsink for PS5
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Fuel your system performance with the Crucial T500 Gen4 NVMe SSD. Experience faster gaming – perfect for PS5 upgrades. Amp up your creative potential with solid state storage that moves as fast as you need it to. Heavy tasks are no problem with better performance to power efficiency, and our heatsink gives you quiet heat dissipation in a sleek design.
KMed –
The Crucial T500 2TB NVMe is a smart choice for anyone looking to upgrade the storage on their PlayStation 5. It’s a relatively fast and reliable drive with plenty of storage for games and other media.
I’m upgrading from a 1TB drive, so the added space is going to be very welcomed as games just keep getting bigger. Installation was a breeze, as is the case with the way Sony made the PS5. The included heatsink fits perfectly in the slot, so all you have to do is slot it in there, screw it in, and power on the PS5.
Once your PS5 is powered on you’ll receive a notification to format the drive and get it ready for use. This will also run a test to measure the read speed of the drive.. This is where things got a little interesting.
The drive that I was replacing reported a read speed of 6,500MB/s while the T500 reported a read speed of 5,600MB/s. I formatted it a few times just to make sure it wasn’t a fluke, but it turns out this is an accurate result. While 5,600MB/s is above the minimum 5,500MB/s that the PS5 requires, it’s still much lower than other drives on the market.
The upside to this low reading is the fact that real-world performance isn’t significantly impacted. Copying games, loading games, and other general operations don’t seem any slower than with my other drive installed. I confirmed my findings with a well-known review website and they had the same results. So, don’t put too much credence in what the PS5 states the read speed is for the T500 as it won’t matter for this use case, but I do wonder why the reading isn’t higher since the drive is capable of faster speeds.
The T500 is indeed capable of its advertised speeds when put into an adequately powerful computer though, you just can’t attain them on the PS5.
Here are some of the pros and cons of the Crucial T500 NVMe:
Pros:
Good performance: The T500 NVMe advertises read speeds of up to 7,400 MB/s and write speeds of up to 7,000 MB/s. This makes it one of the fastest drives available for the PS5, in theory. However, the PS5 read test only results in a 5,600MB
Reliability: The T500 NVMe is built with high-quality components and has been tested to withstand countless hours of gaming.
Plenty of storage space: 2TB of space at this price is a great deal.
Comes with a heatsink preinstalled.
5 Year warranty.
Cons:
The PS5 will only read this drive at 5,600MB/s, which puts it only slightly above the minimum read speed spec for PS5 extended storage.
Overall, if the price is right and you want more storage for your PS5, the T500 gets my recommendation.
MMOGamersince2004 –
First: outer package was not even sealed completely. anyone with a flashlight could look inside it and i suspect someone did try to rip my SSD out of it!! The very large box (13″x8″x4″) was damaged on delivery via UPS, my wife picked it up and shows it on Ring doorbell, also! Zero packing material inside. noticed a huge 3in gap as though someone tried to pry it open. the small Crucial box inside is 4″x5″x1.25″ with crushed area on its bottom. Second: inspection of the SSD inside appears undamaged. I will update review after installation and performance review.
aarondr –
The Crucial T500 is a high speed PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSD. This particular model is equipped with a heatsink that fits perfectly in a PS5, and meets the appropriate minimum requirements that Sony mandates. It’s also a great drive in general. I started with it in use on my PC, but then swapped it to my PS5 for the extra space. A generous 2TB of space is just what the gaming doctor ordered.
The T500 is one of Crucial’s first 232 layer TLC drives (manufactured by micron). TLC has better write endurance than some of the cheaper QLC drives, which in this case means your 2TB drive should be able to handle a minimum of 1.2 petabytes of writes (1200 TB). Also, the drive employs 2GB of DRAM cache to help speed up reading/writing. This use of DRAM means it makes a good OS drive. The cache however hides the fairly slow TLC writing. In my tests however, I was not able to hit that, but I have seen theoretical tests that show this. If you’re looking for a drive to constantly read and write large 4 or 8K video files, this might not be it.
Inside the box, you’ll find the drive. It’s compact, as any m.2 drive is, but it includes a black heatsink that has decent thermal mass and cooling fins. It’s not the best heatsink design, but it handles the crucial branding well while keeping the drive at reasonable temps. I first installed it on a PCIe expansion slot adapter, as all my primary m.2 slots were filled. Initial testing showed the drive a bit slower than the claims of 7400MB/s. My crystal disk mark hit about 6300 and the PS5, when installed showed just below 6000MB/s. While not as fast as advertised, it’s still really fast, and shows the power of PCIe 4 drives, and comes in well inside what the PS5 needs.
Overall, this is a good DRAM based drive with a decent amount of cache. Could you find faster drives? Yes. Can you find drives that are better for the PS5? Maybe? Can you find a better OS drive for a PC? Maybe? Overall this drive isn’t going to lead any categories, but it’s faster than most at a competitive price. The use of DRAM cache makes it very attractive, and the general overall performance seems to be great. Definitely recommended.
callmeageeth –
If you own a PS5 and you don’t already have one, you need an extra SSD. It’s no secret that game’s file sizes are ever increasing – Call of Duty can take up several 100 GBs on its own. If you haven’t yet had to delete old game files to make space for new ones, you will soon. And if you’re tired of having to micromanage your hard drive space, then you need extra storage. 1 TB is good, but more is better, and while the costs of the 4 TB SSDs are still pretty steep (often â…” the cost of a PS5), the 2 TB Crucial T500 hits a nice balance of price and performance. It’s a no brainer of an upgrade for your PS5.
There are a lot of manufacturers out there, but Crucial is a global brand known for high quality memory products. You know what you’re getting – quality and performance. This particular model is Gen4, and while Gen5 is starting to come out, its speed matches the performance necessary to run inside your PS5. While knowledge of technical details isn’t necessary for the masses, when looking for a SSD for your PS5 you just need to know that you need Gen4 M.2 with speeds greater than 5,500 MB/s. There are a variety of form factors, but the vast majority will work with the PS5. You’ll also need to make sure it has a heatsink. For those that don’t know, that’s because these little SSDs can get pretty hot and they need to dissipate heat. This Crucial T500 checks all the boxes.
Its theoretical speeds get up to 7,400 MB/s read and 7,000 MB/s write speed. While my PS5 didn’t quite get that fast – your PS5 will display the speeds after it’s initially formatted for use – it was more than adequate. Read, it met the minimum requirements. After it’s installed in your PS5, you are then able to download games to it. While your games are stored on two separate drives (the SSD and the internal PS5 hard drive) it’s not something you have to worry about (until one of them runs out of space). And I noticed no difference whether a game was installed on the PS5 internal SSD or the Crucial T500. Honestly, there’s nothing more than you ask for. This drive brings incredible performance, and the price for its size is a terrific deal. I can’t recommend it enough. There might be other cheaper drives, but you won’t get the 5 year warranty and comfort knowing you have a SSD from a known, and quality manufacturer.
One little aside, and this to all those who have not installed a SSD in their PS5. There are plenty of videos on the internet – including from PlayStation – showing you how to do so. For those who are not familiar with computer parts or are nervous about opening up their PS5, I assure you it is a simple process that takes only minutes. Once it’s unplugged, you place it down, lift up the corner of the faceplate and with a little pressure, it will slide off. From there, you simply need a Phillips head screwdriver to remove the SSD cover plate, and to tighten the SSD into the slot (it slides in and then a screw holds the SSD in place. Put the cover plate back on, and then slide the PS5 cover on and voila, you’re done.
Jordan –
I’ve been looking into memory expansion for my PS5 for some time now. Right before getting is Crucial T500, I had to delete some games due to shortage of space.
The installation of the T500 was extremely easy. Of I’ve never done this, it is super easy to do. Just make sure you get the appropriate T500 with integrated heatsink for your gaming system.
Removal of the panel on the PS5 is very easy. You lift a bit and slide the panel off, and it will reveal the SSD slot. Make sure that you don’t drop the screw and locating spacer that is pre-installed on the PS5. Insert it at an angle and slowly press down into place. It’s very easy. There are plenty of YouTube videos on it.
I’ve been able to download a few games on it so far. There have been no issues, or game lag, since installation. With 2tb of space, I’ve got enough room to download enough games to keep me happy for the time being.
The Crucial T500 has a 5 year limited warranty! That is a big plus for me. I would definitely recommend it to anyone.
Scott S –
I’m very happy to have sprung for this drive. Previously, I had added a 500GB M.2 drive to my PS5, but with the size of games these days (and the fact that all games get transferred to storage) I had filled up that drive a lot more quickly than I thought I would.
This drive solved that for me. 2TB seems to be a sweet spot of added storage on PS5, IMO. It’s both fairly affordable and provides enough storage to have plenty of games on hand and ready to play.
Crucial’s drive was very easy to install. Simply slide off the bottom (side) panel of your PS5 and you’ll have direct access to the M.2 slot. Since digital games can be downloaded again and save files are stored on the primary console storage, swapping this drive with the one I had was very simple. I transferred some games to the new drive from console storage and downloaded the rest. – That was it!
The new drive is speedy and games run smoothly, as you’d expect. Like my prior drive, games stored on M.2 storage load faster than internal storage, with mine reported with a read speed of 6272 MB/s after initial formatting on the console – that’s slightly slower than my last drive, but not by much. I’ve had several other Crucial products in the past and think of them as a reliable brand, so I also have more piece of mind in choosing their products. I couldn’t ask for more!
NAMO –
SUMMARY
The T500 is a premium offering from Crucial with the hardware to back it up. It reached some of the fastest Gen 4 speeds I’ve ever recorded, has 2GB of DRAM, a life expectancy of 1200 TBW, and is fully compatible with the PS5.
INTRO
The T500 represents Crucial’s (Crucial is owned by Micron) premium entry into the consumer NVMe market. Crucial has put all the necessary hardware on the drive to make it a top performer in the field and the specs and the results prove it. The T500 is capable of sequential read speeds up to 7400MB/s and write speeds of 7000 MB/s. Crucial places approximately 1GB of DRAM per TB, so this 2TB SSD is equipped with 2GB of DDR4 DRAM. Managing all of this is the latest Phison controller that supports Microsoft’s DirectStorage tech. Warranty on the drive is 5 years with an endurance rating of 1200TBW.
SYSTEM CONFIGURATION
My test computer is a new 2023 Asus ExpertCenter. It has a 13th generation Intel Core i5 processor, 16GB of RAM, and most importantly, supports the latest Gen4 NVMe interface. The computer came with a Micron Gen 4 NVMe drive installed, but it was only a 500GB model and honestly, speeds into and out of the drive were underwhelming. Far from what I would have expected from a Gen 4 drive.
While I was hoping for improved performance from the desktop, my real reason for installing the T500 is I am trying to make the Asus a mild gaming PC in addition to its daily chores as my primary workhorse. After installing just 2 games on an otherwise fresh install of Windows 11, I had clogged up over 60% of my existing drive. This was forcing me to store larger work files on my NAS and my performance was dropping off rapidly, the fuller the 500GB model got. Storage room improved significantly with the T500 as final capacity after partitioning, provisioning, and installation of Windows 11 yielded 1.83TB of usable storage space.
After installing the drive in the desktop and a fresh copy of Windows 11, it was time to reload all the latest drivers, my current choice of games, and all the latest productivity and business software. Surprisingly, the computer was much more responsive. Opening and installing large files seemed much quicker. Larger video driver downloads compiled faster and were much quicker to open after download. The computer just seemed peppier and no matter what I asked of the desktop, it just felt much snappier and less labored.
I thought this was more of a mind trick than anything. I had made myself believe that after spending all this time installing the drive and re-downloading all the software I use, this desktop must be quicker. Kind of like when you put a shiny new part on your car and you swear it runs better, has more power, and gets better mileage. So, was I just making myself believe it, or was it faster? Time to find out. Fingers crossed, because this installation, update, and all the software downloads & installs took a while. Ugh.
Queuing up CrystalDiskMark confirmed my observations. The desktop is decidedly faster than it was. Going from one Micron drive to another shows a vast disparity in drives with the same Gen 4 interface. Attached are photos of the results. The T500 is nearly twice as fast as my old NVMe drive. Sequential and Random read and write speeds are right at where Crucial claims they should be, topping more than 7000MB/s. Outstanding. Even more impressive, is that even during all my benchmarking, the drive never got over 71C and never thermal throttled. Partly because of good case airflow, but mostly due to the integrated heatsink on the drive. A worthy option whether you are installing the drive in a PS5 or a desktop.
Synthetic benchmarks aside, this drive is markedly faster in day-to-day tasks. Opening larger driver installation packages is much quicker. Driver installs, game installs, everything happens much quicker with the T500. To prove my theory, I used my 2 newest games I purchased over the holidays. The files are massive (both games clocked in at over 80+ GB each). Once the games are downloaded, the installer goes back, reads, and verifies the installation. With over 80GB per game, this can take a while and it did.
My old Micron drive averaged just over 1 GB/s read speeds (sorry, I don’t have photos documenting). Top read speed was approximately 1.25 GB/s. Not bad. However, the T500 crushed it. Game verification was taking place at over 4 GB/s with speeds reaching up to 4.3 GB/s. That’s nearly 4x the increase in performance! This is immediately noticeable when opening a large application, starting a new game, installing drivers, etc.
NEGATIVES
The only negative I find about the T500 is its lack of hardware-based encryption. I scoured the Crucial website and even their product literature and can find no mention of support for encryption. A premium drive of this caliber deserves the ability to support hardware-based data encryption, especially one that Crucial is billing not only as a gaming drive, but as a drive designed for demanding workloads.
FINAL THOUGHTS
The lack of hardware-based data encryption is the only fault I can find with the T500. It is an excellent drive that can reach the upper limits of data throughput in the Gen 4 interface. It has a great warranty and is made using, in my experience over the years, Micron’s excellent memory chips. I have had nothing but exceptional performance from my Crucial and Micron products. I’ve been using a low-end P3 in another desktop for years without issue. I have no doubt this drive will serve consumers well and will continue with Crucial’s excellent reliability.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
Abhaxus –
The last few years have been tough as the DRAM-less controllers and slow TLC and QLC flash have driven SSDs prices down while performance has taken several steps back for many SSDs. I approach the review of any new SSDs with a bit of trepidation, assuming the worst before proven otherwise. The Crucial T500 is pretty impressive, however, and seems like a step in the right direction for value performance.
The T500 is the second PCIe 4 SSD I’ve used, and the first that has DRAM for primary cache. As a result, it’s pretty freaking quick. Using CrystalDiskMark on my PC, sequential reads reach 7000 MB/s and writes are over 6000MB/s, but the real boost is in the random r/w performance and latency. Read latency is reduced by 43% from my other PCIe 4 SSD, and write latency is down by 18%. Vs a very quick PCIe 3 SSD, latency is down by 60% for reads and 34% for writes. CDM also reports more than 1.1 mil read 778k write IOPS, which is just phenomenal. Those numbers lead to the kind of real world performance that improves the “seat of the pants” feel when gaming, especially with a reasonably priced SSD.
The T500 I received includes a PS5-compatible heatsink to provide consistent write performance and improve longevity of the drive. It’s so nice that Sony went with a standard m.2 slot for storage expansion and that drive manufacturers are so eager to include PS5 compatible heatsinks on their drives. Another plus for the T500 is that the upcharge for the model with the heatsink is miniscule, as I’ve seen drives from other brands that cost quite a bit more to have some cheap metal attached with heat tape. Kudos to Crucial for that.