Crucial launches their new BX500 series of ultra-affordable SSDs
Crucial launches their new BX500 series of ultra-affordable SSDs
The BX500 series will offer buyers capacities of 120GB, 240GB and 480GB, acting as entry-series SSDs that sit below their higher capacity/performance MX500 series offerings. These new BX series models are priced at $29.99, $49.99 and $89.99 respectively, with each model offering 540MB/s and 500MB/s sequential read/write speeds.
Sadly, little else is known about these new SSD models, aside from the fact that they use 3D NAND with an SLC cache, which confirms that these new SSDs will make use of either TLC or QLC NAND flash memory.
Crucial is using the memory technology of its parent company Micron, making the use of 64-layer QLC NAND likely, though this information is unconfirmed, with both the BX500’s product page and datasheets lacking any mention of NAND type. We do know that a multi-step data integrity algorithm, thermal monitoring, an SLC Write cache, TRIM support and Error Correcting code support.
Crucial’s new BX500 series of SSDs is backed up by a three-year warranty. BX500 series SSDs start shipping today and should be available at retailers soon.
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