A new frontier for Crucial SSDs
2018 - The Crucial® P1 SSD, the first Crucial NVMe™ PCIe® drive, reached sequential read speeds of 2,000 MB/s. That’s 20 times faster than the very first Crucial SSD!
Timeline
MX500 raises the bar on quality
2017 - With capacities up to 2TB, sequential reads up to 560 MB/s, and availability in the M.2 form factor, the Crucial® MX500 SSD garnered acclaim with a blend of quality, speed, and reliability.
Crucial turns 20
2016 - For an idea that started in a small Micron office in Boise, Idaho, 20 years of business helping people make their computers faster is an accomplishment worth celebrating.
SSDs zero in on hard drive prices
2015 - An SSD can actually be affordable! A vertical integration with Micron allows Crucial to provide affordable upgrades without sacrificing quality, as the Crucial® BX200 SSD showed.
Becoming a global brand
2014 - Crucial websites debut for more audiences around the globe – first with China, then Italy, Germany, and Japan.
Same speed, new SSD form factor
2012 - The mSATA Crucial® m4 SSD fit all of the award-winning performance and reliability of the Crucial m4 SSD into a drive that’s an eighth of the size of a 2.5-inch SSD.
Developing a legacy
2011 - The Crucial® m4 SSD established Crucial as an SSD brand with multiple examples of storage success, reaching sequential reads up to 415 MB/s and capacities up to 512GB.
C300 makes SSD history
2010 - The Crucial® C300 SSD broke new ground as the first SATA III interface SSD, with a 6Gb/s throughput that enabled faster speeds than SATA II and sequential reads up to 355 MB/s.
Bonjour, Crucial.fr!
2009 - We launched our French website, Crucial.fr, sharing our passion for making computers faster with a brand new country.
DDR3 memory arrives
2007
Mac® systems added to System Scanner
2006
System Scanner makes compatibility easy for PCs
2005
Ballistix and DDR2 are launched
2004 - Our passion for gaming led us to dedicate a new line of memory to faster speeds and new heat spreader looks – just in time for DDR2 memory technology.
On the go with Crucial® Gizmo! USB drives
2003 - Our Gizmo! USB drives began a foray into making storage faster and more convenient, which later led to Crucial SSDs.
Focused on graphics cards
2002 - The quest to removing hardware bottlenecks, wherever they may occur, once took us into video cards.
Computer Shopper readers vote us best place to buy memory
2001 - The love of helping upgrade to faster computer performance, and we're incredibly grateful for our community of customers!
We expand internationally with facilities in Scotland and Singapore
1999
The Memory Selector (now the Memory Advisor) debuts, taking confusion out of compatibility
1998
Secure online ordering for customers on our “Internet web site”
1997