Nowadays, the wave of digital and intelligent transformation is constantly rushing forward. In the extraordinary year of 2023, Tianji.com & Bit.com has experienced the profound changes brought to the times by digital technology and intelligent technology with everyone. Paying tribute to the era of digital intelligence, the 22nd IT Impact China deeply excavates the value of industry innovation, listens to the voice of consumers, selects technology products and solutions with industry representative value, and witnesses technological innovation in the era of digital intelligence.
In this year's "IT Impacts China" annual selection, the Crucial T500 PCIe 4With its rugged quality, efficient read and write speed, and excellent performance, the 0 NVMe SSD SSD has become the recommended SSD by the editorial department of Tianji.com. After a comprehensive evaluation by the judging committee and the public jury, the 22nd IT Impact China awarded the Crucial T500 PCIe 40 NVMe SSDs won the "Editor's Choice of the Year" Award.
Technology upgrades, the blockbuster of the year.
Nowadays, data has become ubiquitous, daily work, entertainment, and learning often generate a large amount of data, and the selection and use of storage devices is not only related to the security of data, but also to its read and write performance is also related to "efficiency". Especially in the current hot AI PC, more and more consumers will give priority to SSDs with advantages in performance and quality when upgrading their PCs.
Crucial T500 PCIe 40 NVMe SSDs become the choice of gamers, content creators, and more. There's a reason why it's loved by everyone. In fact, the new T500 is designed to replace Crucial's previous flagship series, the P5 Plus, which is currently the most popular PCI-Express 4Within the framework of 0 technology, a new leap in performance and power consumption has been achieved through redesign and the adoption of more advanced processes.
The author noted that this SSD is a high-quality storage product built on Micron's 232-layer 3D TLC NAND. The Critical T500 SSD is powered by a Phison PS5025-E25 controller and is equipped with LPDDR4 cache, which is at the level of 1GB cache per 1TB NAND flash memory. At the same time, this SSD has both static and dynamic SLC cache, which can vary the specific capacity according to the user, up to about 20%. In addition, it supports Microsoft DirectStorage technology, which makes the game load faster. Such a configuration can fully guarantee efficient transmission speeds.
With a variety of technologies and configurations, the Critical T500 SSD delivers significant performance improvements. According to official data, the Critical T500 SSD has theoretical sequential read and write speeds of 7400 MB s and 7000MB s, and random read and write speeds of up to 1180K and 1440K IPOS. At the same time, compared to PCIe 30 NVMe SSD products, the T500 has a 40% improvement in energy efficiency.
Multiple versions are available to meet diverse needs.
In addition to the more powerful performance, the Critical T500 SSD is available in a variety of versions to meet the needs of users on specific devices.
In terms of heat dissipation, the Critical T500 is available with and without a heatsink. In terms of capacity, the Critical T500 is available in 500GB (TB without heatsink only) and 2TB capacity (available with and without heatsink).
In terms of endurance, the 2TB version is 1200TBW, the 1TB version is 600TBW, and the 500GB version is 300TBW.
The Crucial T500 2TB version (without integrated heatsink version) experienced by the author. It is worth mentioning that due to the design of the heatsink, the Critical t500 with integrated cooling has an increase in width by 1mm and a thickness of 97mm, which is more suitable for desktop and PS5 consoles. The version without an integrated heatsink is more suitable for gaming laptops or high-performance thin and light laptops.
Powerful performance, Critical T500 tested.
The author tested the Crucial T500 2TB version on an Intel Core i5-13490F processor, equipped with a ROG Strix Z790-F Gaming Wi-Fi motherboard, with an ASUS TUF RTX 3070Ti O8G Gaming graphics card, Windows 11 22H2, and an ambient temperature of 25.
1、crystaldiskinfo
Use crystaldiskinfo to view the SSD information, the previous firmware version is P8CR002, which can accurately identify 20003 GB, standard PCIe 40 4 rate, protocol is NVMe 20, supported features include sm.a.r.t、trim、volatilewritecache。
2、 crystaldiskmark
CrystalDiskMark is a test computer hard drive inspection tool, a simple and easy-to-use interface that allows you to test storage devices at any time, test the size of the storage device and test the number of test numbers, and test the read and write speed.
We can see that in the CrystalDiskMark benchmark, the sequential reads are able to reach 711254mb s, sequential write 692957mb/s;The 4K random read speed is 11861K IOPS, and the 4K random write speed is 1067K IOPS, which is relatively consistent with the official nominal performance and is a flagship-level performance.
3、atto disk benchmark
Atto Disk Benchmark is an easy-to-use disk transfer rate detection tool. The software can be used to detect the read and write rates of mobile disks, and the test data is expressed in the form of histograms, so that users can better understand the read and write speeds of disks.
According to the Atto Disk benchmark, the Crucial T500 2TB achieves a read speed of 659GB s, while the write speed also reaches 6At 42GB s, the performance was in line with expectations.
4、txbench
txbench Chinese version is an efficient and professional solid state drive performance test software, the latest version of txbench is powerful, not only has the basic test items, the software can also help users customize the test items, txbench software is convenient and easy to use, support free setting of the test block size, queue depth, etc., as well as full disk write test, file and raw are supported.
In Txbench, the Crucial T500 2TB has sequential read/write speeds of 6994806mb s and 6704At 944mb s, the performance is quite good.
DMark Storage Benchmark.
The 3DMark Storage Benchmark is a real-world test of real-world performance in games, supporting all the latest storage technologies and testing real, real-world game performance such as loading games, saving progress, installing game files, and recording game streams.
It was tested on Battlefield 5, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, Overwatch, recording games, installing games, saving games, moving games, hard drive bandwidth, and access times.
As you can see, the Crucial T500 SSD scored 3998 on the 3DMark storage benchmark, and we can see that the average bandwidth tested was 6862MB s, with an average access time of 45 s; The bandwidth for loading Battlefield 5 is 135108MB s, access time 58 s; The bandwidth for loading Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is 101901MB s, access time 67 s; The bandwidth for mobile gaming is 3686At 11MB s, the average access time is 70 s, which is quite good.
6. File transfer test.
FastCopy is a very fast file copy software that can show the size of the transferred files, the transfer time, the number of files transferred, and the transfer speed, and we use it to test the transfer rate.
We can see that the Crucial T500 2TB version is at 3470GB files were transferred in 9 seconds with a transfer speed of 212gb/s。
Write at the end. Through this test, we can see that the Crucial T500 belongs to PCIe 40 NVMe SSD is the best in terms of read and write performance, as well as performance-per-watt ratio. According to official data, the Critical T500 can improve game loading speed by 16% and content creation application performance by 42%.
In the author's opinion, Critical T500 is a high-performance, high-reliability SSD for gamers and content creation users, which can meet the needs of high-performance data storage and inject productivity into games and editing. The Critical T500 SSD has been named the Editor's of the Year Gold Choice Award.
In addition, the author also recommends purchasing PCIe 4Users with 0 NVMe SSD needs can pay attention to the Crucial T500, which belongs to PCIe 40 nvme ssd。