Crucial’s 1TB MX500 SSD Cut to $85, Lowest-Ever Price

Crucial MX500 1TB just $84.99
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In our Crucial MX500 review, we spoke highly about the drive's performance and long endurance, making it ideal for holding games or data files. The drive boasts sequential reads and writes of 560 and 510 MBps and uses Crucial's 3D NAND storage.

Today, those words are still true, as this remains one of the best SSDs you can buy,  made even better by a new year price drop. Today, you can find it at Amazon for just $84.99 ($30 off the list price). 

Crucial MX500 1TB SSD: was $114.99, now $84.99 at Amazon

Crucial MX500 1TB SSD: <a href="https://target.georiot.com/Proxy.ashx?tsid=45723&GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Famazon.com%2FCrucial-MX500-NAND-SATA-Internal%2Fdp%2FB077SF8KMG%3Ftag%3Dhawk-future-20%26ascsubtag%3Dhawk-custom-tracking-20" data-link-merchant="Amazon US"">was $114.99, now $84.99 at Amazon
Crucial’s MX500 SSD makes for a great boot or game drive (or both). Sequential read and write speeds of 560 MB/s and 510 MB/s respectively, paired with a 360TB Total Bytes Written endurance make this a reliable all round performer.

A 2.5-inch SATA SSD, the Crucial MX500 is a decent secondary drive for your desktop or a replacement drive on older laptops that still have 2.5-inch hard drives. Plus, your on-board data is safe from hackers and power cuts, thanks to AES 256 bit hardware based encryption and integrated power loss immunity.

Jason England

Jason is a deals writer at Tom's Hardware — bringing a decade of tech and gaming journalism to the role. He specializes in making sure you never pay more than you should for PC components and tech! He has previously written for other publications like Kotaku, Stuff and BBC Science Focus and in his spare time, you'll find him looking for good dogs to pet or eating pizza in his home town of Nottingham, UK.

  • mdd1963
    Back up the proverbial truck!

    These are excellent SSDs, never an issue with numerous laptops upgraded with these.

    (Saw 563 MB/sec sequential reads on CrystalDiskMark with one)

    NOw if we could just get some $150 ea 2 TB units... :)
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