Some time ago, Crucial introduced the new MX500 2.5-inch solid-state hard drive, SMI252 controlled by SMI, flash memory particles using 64-layer 3D TLC NAND chips with 16nm process, providing 250GB, 500GB, 1TB and 2TB capacity.
On January 11, 2018, Crucial unveiled the new MX500 solid state drive at CES 2018. The new MX500 solid state drive features the M.2 2280 specification and takes the SATA path with a bandwidth of 6Gbps.
M.2 interface MX500 SSD also uses the SMI (Hui Rong) master chip, the specific model is not clear, solid-state hard drive to provide 250GB, 500GB, 1TB three capacity, three kinds of capacity of the SSD to read and write performance to maintain Consistent, are 560MB / s (read), 510MB / s (write).
It is worth mentioning that the random read IOPS of the SSDs are 95K (Read) and 90K (Write) and the SATA interface of the MX500 SSDs are consistent.
The official price and time to market specific yet unpublished, due to the new M.2 interface MX500 SSD in terms of performance and other aspects of the SATA port is almost the same, it is speculated that the price should be consistent with SATA interface MX500 solid state drives.
