
Nevertheless, it was still able to read at 460 MB/s and write at more than 503 MB/s. As you can see, the drive had no problems reaching these speeds in CrystalDiskMark's sequential read and write tests.Īs you'd expect, the MX500 wasn't nearly as fast when tested with the "real world" profile which uses a single thread and a much lower queue depth. For this test, we're using the peak and real world profiles.Īccording to Crucial, the 4TB version of the MX500 is capable of reading at 560 MB/s and writing at 510 MB/s. This benchmark measures the performance of a storage device by testing its sequential and random read and write speeds. Looking at the screenshot above, you can see that it performs equally well with both incompressible (0%) and compressible (100%) data.įirst, I ran a few quick tests using CrystalDiskMark. For comparison, I've also included test results from the Lexar NQ100, Samsung 870 EVO, Samsung 870 QVO, SK hynix Gold S31, ADATA Ultimate SU750, Samsung 860 QVO, Samsung 860 PRO, Crucial MX500, Plextor M8V, Crucial BX300, ADATA Ultimate SU900, Plextor S3C, Toshiba OCZ VX500, ADATA Ultimate SU800, Plextor S2C, Crucial MX300, Plextor M7V, PNY CS1311, OCZ Trion 150, PNY CS2211, Plextor M6V, Crucial BX200, OCZ Trion 100, Kingston HyperX Savage, Crucial MX200, OCZ Vector 180, Kingston BX100, Samsung 850 EVO M.2, Samsung 850 EVO mSATA, AMD Radeon R7, Silicon Power Slim S80, Samsung SSD 850 EVO, OCZ ARC 100, SanDisk Ultra II, Crucial MX100, SanDisk Extreme Pro and Samsung SSD 850 PRO.Īs I mentioned earlier, the Crucial MX500 is based on SMI's SM2258 controller chip.

To test the performance of Crucial's MX500 SSD, I ran a series of benchmarks using CrystalDiskMark, HD Tach RW, ATTO Disk Benchmark, AS SSD, HD Tune Pro, Anvil's Storage Utilities, Iometer and PCMark 8.

CRYSTAL DISKMARK BENCHMARKS WINDOWS 10
For the operating system, I used the latest version of Windows 10 Pro. The test system used in this review is equipped with an AMD R圜PU, MSI B550 GAMING PLUS motherboard, 16GB (8GB x 2) of Crucial Ballistix 3200 MHz DDR4 memory, Crucial P5 1TB SSD and a GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 WINDFORCE OC 6G graphics card.
