While Spring cleaning your PC, you may have noticed your storage isn’t up to snuff. Whether it’s too small or too slow, grabbing another SSD as a replacement or support is always a good shout. Sifting through the listings of Amazon’s Big Spring Sale, Crucial T500 emerges as the best bang for your buck buy in my eyes.
Crucial T500 1TB (Heatsink)
“Fuel your system performance.” – Crucial
Now just $79.99 on Amazon US, the Big Spring Sale has slashed the price of Crucial T500 1TB by 49% ($76). This isn’t an all-time low price but it is the most affordable the SSD’s been since April 2024. Amazon UK hasn’t included the drive in its own festivities, but it’s still only £77.99 making for a 40% (£52) saving. Wherever you’re purchasing it, though, you’re paying less than £/$1 per 10GB of space.
Crucial T500 is a prime example of a PCIe 4.0 x4 SSD, offering sequential read speeds of 7,300MB/s and sequential writes of 6,800MB/s. Few others sporting the same interface are able to supersede its speeds and even in those rare cases we’re only talking a difference of a few 100MB/s. Whether you’re looking for a new gaming SSD or an all-purpose drive, it’s more than up to the task.
Bolstering its performance, Crucial T500 comes with a passive heatsink. This block helps keep the drive cool and mitigate any potential for thermal throttling. This allows you to place the SSD in any slot on your motherboard regardless of whether there’s an included heatsink or not and it’ll keep a cool head as it trundles along. It also makes T500 compatible with PlayStation 5 if you fancy picking it up for your console rather than your computer.
You can rest assured that Crucial T500 will last a long while with an endurance rating of 600TBW. To put it another way, you’d need to completely fill the drive the 1TB around 600 times to hit that metric. All T500 SSDs also come with a five-year warranty for extra piece of mind.
You’ll need an Amazon Prime subscription to get in on all Big Spring Sale savings, but chances are you’re already ahead of the game in that regard. If you’re new to the service or haven’t subscribed in a while, Damien put together a helpful guide on just what you get with Amazon Prime these days.
Expect more deals from the team continue to hunt through Amazon’s many, many listings. In the meantime, follow Club386 on Google News to stay in the know.
