Crucial MX500 250GB M.2 Type 2280 SSD Review

Storage/SSD by stefan @ 2018-08-27

The M.2 Type 2280 Crucial MX500 250GB does have about the same performance as its 500GB version and the installation process is pretty straight-forward. With a MTTF of 1.8 million hours, an endurance of 100TB (TBW) and a limited five-year warranty, we can consider it an ideal upgrade as a boot drive for many mainstream systems. MX500 does come with hardware-based encryption, while the integrated power loss immunity does avoid unwanted data corruption if the system would suddenly freeze or shut down.

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Crucial Storage Executive

Micron has also designed an easy to use application for managing your Crucial storage drives; the main menus are placed on the left side, while on the right we do have the details; the System Information tab does show the current occupation of system resources, but will also list details of the installed drives (even if not all are manufactured by Micron). From this screen, we can also perform drive firmware updates:

 

 

 

In-depth details can be checked out from the next section, such as drive usage, current temperature, SN, total bytes written, drive version, firmware version and more!

 

 

 

The S.M.A.R.T. information screen is next:

 

 

 

If newer firmware updates are available for the drive, we can perform different actions in the dedicated section; if the current computer does not have a live Internet connection, we can perform the update anyways by providing the offline firmware update package:

 

 

 

Drive sanitization can be performed in order to safely erase all data:

 

 

 

The PSID Revert option will help return the SSD to its original state if it has been TCG-enabled with a drive password:

 

 

 

Momentum Cache does help boosting the transfer speeds by allowing the user to use up to 25% of the available system memory:

 

 

 

The Flex Capacity option is available only on selected Micron-specific lines:

 

 

 

We can also allocate extra space on the drive for the controller to use; this will also mean that features such as Wear Leveling and Garbage Collection will run smoother:

 

 

 

 

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