Attention everyone who still hasn’t joined the SSD revolution: today is your day to sign on. Amazon is selling the 1TB Crucial MX500 for $97 right now. That’s about $14 cheaper than its most recent price, and the all-time low for this drive.
We haven’t reviewed the Crucial MX500, but it’s a popular choice and well reviewed on Amazon with an average of 4.5 stars across nearly 2,000 customer reviews. This is a 2.5-inch SATA III drive. Micron, the maker of Crucial drives, says this drive supports sequential read speeds up to 560 megabytes per second, and write speeds up to 510MB/s. It also has built-in 256-bit AES data encryption.
While M.2 NVMe drives are all the rage, a SATA III drive still provides fantastic performance compared to an aging hard drive. If you’re using a spinning drive in a laptop this is an especially fantastic alternative. The Crucial MX500 is also a good option for anyone looking for a second or third drive for their desktop PC.
With a 1TB capacity you’ll have enough room on this drive to host the operating system, videos, photos, and several games–or just Gears of War 4.
Author: Ian Paul, Contributor
Ian is an independent writer based in Israel who has never met a tech subject he didn't like. He primarily covers Windows, PC and gaming hardware, video and music streaming services, social networks, and browsers. When he's not covering the news he's working on how-to tips for PC users, or tuning his eGPU setup.