INTRODUCTION

   Regardless of whether or not you're a casual user, gamer, enthusiast or even a professional having a good PCIe M.2 NVMe SSD in your system is clearly a must, not just in regards to system performance but also stability/endurance. Compared to when i first started reviewing SSDs back in 2008 today there are many more NAND controller manufacturers around which in turn means a large number of choices for people to go with depending on their needs/requirements. So, whether you're looking for high performance, high durability, high capacity or just low cost the current market has you covered. The latest T500 line of Gen4 M.2 NVMe SSDs by Crucial is aimed towards demanding users and with me today i have the 2TB heatsink variant.

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   The brand new T500 series of Gen4 M.2 NVMe SSDs includes models with and without a large aluminum heatsink (PS5 compatible) in 500GB/1TB/2TB capacities. The T500 line uses the latest PS5025-E25 quad-channel (16 CE counts - announced late last year and is pretty much a cut down version of their E26 controller) NVMe v2.0 NAND flash controller which they've paired with 2GB of LPDDR4-2666 DRAM and 232-Layer 3D TLC NAND flash (B58R) by Micron. The brand new PS5025-E25 NAND flash controller by PHISON features their 5th Gen LDPC ECC & RAID ECC together with SmartECC (RAID ECC), End-To-End Data Path Protection, TRIM and AES 256-bit encryption (with SHA 512 and RSA 4096) and is compliant with Toggle 5.0, ONFi 5.0 and TCG Opal 2.02. Once again Crucial covers the entire T500 line with a 5-year limited warranty and as for endurance numbers it reports 300TBW for the 500GB model, 600TBW for the 1TB model and 1200TBW for the 2TB model (MTBF - mean time between failures - of 2 million hours applies to all models).