BX500 is one of the most affordable 2.5’’ SSDs you can get for the capacity and includes a 3-year warranty with 240 TBW of write endurance. While there is no DRAM cache standalone on the board, the 96-layer 3D NAND TLC packages do include SLC for caching purposes and until this one gets filled, the SSD will perform at optimal speeds.

As expected with TLC technology, we are again looking at a drive for mainstream users that do not write large quantities of data to it at once; if this happens and the SLC gets completely filled up, the access time will go up and writes will go between 5.5 and 6.7MB/s (as reported by Windows File Explorer):

The 960GB drive can be currently found online for just about 94 Euros!

Crucial BX500 960GB 2.5'' SSD is Recommended for:

We would like to thank again to Crucial for making this review possible!