THE BX500 240GB

The BX500 may look the same as pretty much every other model released by Crucial in recent years but it’s the very first time they've used a plastic enclosure.

A large sticker at the rear includes information such as the capacity of the drive, installed firmware, product serial number, 2D barcode, electrical requirements and several certification logos.

The enclosure is held together with clips and as you can see the PCB is less than half the normal size (even smaller compared to that used in the BX300).

On the top end of the PCB we see two 64-layer 3D TLC NAND flash modules (64GB in capacity each).

Two extra NAND flash modules are located on the bottom end along with the Silicon Motion quad-channel SM2258XT NAND flash controller.