Max latency stayed pretty calm across the board, with most figures staying under 200ms. Storage Spaces software RAID had the highest figures, with write latency coming in under 1000ms in RAID0 and peaking at almost 1400ms in RAID5. If you're looking to buy a great high capacity SATA SSD, then the new 4TB MX500 SSD is what you should be looking at. When you are inside the Storage Executive software, make sure to enable the Momentum Cache feature to instantly improve burst performance.

Turning the PCB around we find the Silicon Motion SM2259 quad-channel controller, 512MB DDR3L SDRAM module by Micron and two more 3D TLC NAND flash modules again by Micron. After over 1 3 years of testing solid state drives, I’ve concluded that it's almost impossible for any single benchmark suite to accurately measure their performance and that's why in certain benchmark suites we see amazing read/write performance numbers with some drives while in others things are quite different. The reason behind this is that some benchmarking suites are configured to read and write random chunks of data while others read and write constant (sequential) ones. So that's why i always use a very wide selection of benchmarking suites including AIDA64, HD Tach RW, HD Tune Pro, Crystal Disk Mark, Sisoftware Sandra Pro, AS SSD, IOmeter and ATTO. To get the most accurate results each test gets repeated a total of 6 times with the average performance numbers recorded into our charts*. Also, as of February 25th 2015 our results will also include the Storage Networking Industry Association’s (SNIA) IOMeter tests. These tests include a 12 Hour write test used to “simulate” performance degradation over time and a mixed workload test which basically shows what you can expect when using an SSD continuously for roughly two hours. Unfortunately, due to the time required for these tests we repeat them a total of 3 times and not 6 as the above. We topped 4.1GB/s in bandwidth with eight Crucial MX500 4TB SATA SSDs in RAID5. That’s pretty darn impressive all things considered. A lot of system integrators and SMBs on a budget still prefer to use hard drives. HDDs are pretty reliable, have high capacity, and have a low cost per TB. Hard drives have been around for years but have not kept up with the advancements in computing power when it comes to performance.A simple way to improve server performance is to replace those slow hard disk drives (HDD) with high-capacity solid-state drives (SDD). SSDs can provide maximum performance at a lower cost than replacing existing servers, and Crucial Technology has an affordable solution to make the decision easier. Also, I like that Crucial includes a 7mm to 9.5mm adapter with their MX500 SSDs for installations that require a 9.5mm drive height. Crucial's MX500 SSDs make use of the Silicon Motion SM2258 controller which comes with support for Opal/TCG encryption which you can use to

TRIM support, Error Correction Code (ECC), Adaptive Thermal Protection, Redundant Array of Independent NAND, Multistep Data Integrity Algorithm, RAIN technology, Active Garbage Collection, dynamic write acceleration, Device Sleep support, power loss immunity, S.M.A.R.T. As for endurance, the Crucial MX500 250GB model is rated for 100TB (TBW) which translates to about 54GB daily writes for 5 years. We must admit that we are surprised that the MX500 4TB is being called a MX500… and not a MX600. Typically, when a ‘series’ gets a new controller with (slightly) better performance specifications… it gets a new model name. That however did not happen when Crucial refreshed the 1TB (fairly) recently so it is not that surprising. With that said when a Solid State Drive not only gets a new controller, new amount of RAM, but also new NAND… well… call us crazy but we expect it to get a new model. Active average power use comparison based on published specs of the 1TB Crucial MX500 SSD and the 1TB Western Digital® Caviar Blue™ WD10EZEX internal hard drive. All other capacities of the Crucial MX500 SSD have comparable active average power consumption specs.

Many people have made inquiries about the charts in the past so once again please do keep in mind that the Charts have the average performance numbers of each drive recorded and not the peak (highest) ones. Also, although every single one of these programs can help potential buyers choose the right drive for their needs you should also remember that from any kind of benchmark up to real world usage the gap is not small (and usually most differences will go unnoticed by most people). All tests were performed in a fresh Windows 10 Pro x64 installation with every update installed up to the date of this review. Other than that, the MX500 4TB capacity is perfect for users who are looking for a large capacity SSD to store their data. This equals to about 98GB daily writes for the 500GB model and 197GB for the 1TB model for 5 years.