CT120M500SSD1 | Crucial 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive - MLC, SATA-III - M500 Series

 

 

New interfaces and multitasking demands require more from your system than perhaps ever before. From connecting instantly with friends and accessing apps, websites, and playlists online, to simultaneously streaming videos and downloading files, your computer is faced with an entirely new set of performance expectations that a hard drive struggles to meet. Thats where the Crucial M500 SSD comes in. With data transfer speeds that are radically faster than a hard drive, the Crucial M500 SSD isnt just a storage upgrade - its a complete system transformation. From its nearly instantaneous boot times, powerful data transfer speeds, increased multitasking capability, and rocksolid reliability, the Crucial M500 delivers dramatic performance gains  all at an affordable price.

 

Available in capacities up to terabyte-class, the Crucial M500 SSD provides plenty of storage for your ever-growing collection of photos, videos, music, and important documents. Based on your storage needs, choose between a 120GB, 240GB, 480GB, or 960GB drive and access your programs and files almost as soon as you click on them. If you prefer to store your data on an external backup drive, in the cloud, or on your home network, opt for a smaller capacity. Or if youd rather have everything in one place, choose one of our larger sizes. Whichever capacity you choose, our selection ensures that youre able to find a drive thats the right combination of storage, performance, and price.

 

No matter what kind of files youre working with on a Crucial SSD, youll experience high speeds with no drop in performance across different file types. Unlike other SSDs on the market, Crucial SSDs treat all files the same, regardless of whether theyre compressed or uncompressed. While many SSDs on the market achieve faster speeds by using file compression, many of the most common file types cant be compressed, resulting in SSDs that often deliver slower speeds than advertised. This is important because the files most people use every day  videos, mp3s, advanced graphic files and zip files - are compressed files and thus unable to be compressed any further. With a Crucial SSD, the specs we advertise are the same specs youll see in the real world.

 

Crucial is a brand of Micron, one of the largest NAND manufacturers in the world, and we design and develop our SSDs in-house using state-of-the-art technology. This means four things: hundreds of SSD qualification tests, over a thousand hours of prerelease validation testing, 1.5 billion dollars invested in R&, and more than 30 years of industry expertise. With our multi-billion dollar commitment to NAND development, our record of patent and process innovation, and our awardwinning customer support team, were dedicated to quality. For you, that means your SSD has been designed with cutting-edge technology and its been rigorously tested and approved. Dont settle for anything less.

 

 

Interface	SATA 6Gb/s (SATA 3GB/s compatible)
Sustained Sequential Read up to (128k transfer)	500MB/s
Sustained Sequential Write up to (128k transfer)	130MB/s
Random Read up to (4k transfer)	62,000 IOPS
Random Write up to (4k transfer)	35,000 IOPS
Form Factor	2.5-inch m-SATA, and M.2
NAND	20nm Micron MLC NND
Life Expectancy	1.2 million hours mean time to failure (MTTF)
Warranty	Limited three year warranty
Endurance	72TB total bytes written (TBW), equal to 40GB per day for 5 years
Operating Temperature	0C to 70C
Compliance	RoHS, CE, FCC, UL, BSMI, C-TICK, KCC RRL, W.E.E.E., TUV VCCI, IC
Firmware	FIeld upgradable firmware
Product Health Monitoring	Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) commands