SSD vs HDD for Gaming
What is the best SSD storage drive for gaming? Check out Crucial’s helpful comparison guide between SSDs and HDDs to find the best solution for you.
Read moreCrucial T500 Gen4 SSD NVMe M.2 SSD
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Elevate your system's performance with the high-speed Crucial T500 Gen4 SSD
Powering more possibilities
- Design and iterate faster
- Get up to 42% faster performance in content creation apps7
- Free up system resources for lag-free creation
In-game gains
- Load games 16% faster1
- Store more games with up to 4TB3 of storage
- Render more with Microsoft® DirectStorage6
Performance to power ratio
- 40% higher performance to power ratio4
- Supports computer working speed with less power
Quick and easy install
- Free Acronis® True Image cloning software for installing
- Crucial online tutorials and how-to guides available
- Can be set as a boot drive
- Gaming speed claims based on Micron test results measuring Forspoken Benchmark, Call of Duty® and Valorant® bootup times of the Crucial T500 and other Gen4 SSDs. Your performance may vary.
- Typical I/O performance as measured using CrystalDiskMark® with default settings for NVMe SSDs and write cache enabled. Windows 11 Core isolation disabled for performance measurement. Fresh out-of-box (FOB) state is assumed. For performance measurement purposes, the SSD may be restored to FOB state using the secure erase command. System variations will affect measured results.
- Some of the storage capacity is used for formatting and other purposes and is not available for data storage. 1GB equals 1 billion bytes. Not all capacities available at initial launch.
- Power-to-performance comparison measured internally between Crucial P5 Plus and T500 PCIe® 4.0 NVMe SSDs. Your performance may vary.
- Calculated by comparing T500’s sequential reads of 7,400MB/s to the previous generation’s (P5 Plus) speeds of 6,600MB/s, or to the SATA’s (MX500) speed of 560MB/s. Actual performance may vary.
- Compared to Gen4 SSD performance without DirectStorage, based on Micron test results with supported GPU that uses GPU decompression.
- Faster performance with content creation apps based on internal test results measuring SPECwpc benchmark scores comparing the Crucial T500 to other Gen4 SSDs. Your performance may vary.
- Warranty valid for five years from the original date of purchase or before writing the maximum total bytes written (TBW) as published in the product datasheet and as measured in the product’s SMART data, whichever comes first
- See https://www.playstation.com/en-us/support/hardware/ps5-install-m2-ssd/ for specs and installation instructions.
- One-month complimentary Adobe® Creative Cloud personal All Apps plan available with eligible Crucial SSD purchase. Adobe Creative Cloud ID and Crucial product registration required for redemption. Eligible Crucial T500 SSDs: CT500T500SSD8, CT1000T500SSD8, CT2000T500SSD8, CT1000T500SSD5, CT2000T500SSD5 must be purchased between October 17, 2023 and December 31, 2025. Offer limited to one redemption per eligible Crucial SSD purchase and registration; up to two per Adobe Creative Cloud user account, subject to acceptance of applicable Terms of Use, while activation code supplies last. Additional terms and conditions may apply. Micron Technology reserves the right to change or discontinue this offer at any time without notice.