Crucial BX500
Crucial BX500 1TB is a budget 2.5-inch SATA SSD (540/500 MB/s, 360 TBW) released Oct 2019—best for boot drives and game libraries; still listed by Crucial.
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Product overview
Crucial’s BX500 1TB (CT1000BX500SSD1) joined the BX500 SATA 2.5-inch family on October 30, 2019. It’s the entry-level BX line aimed at inexpensive SATA upgrades.
As a budget SSD, it uses a SATA 6Gb/s interface with 540/500 MB/s ratings and 360 TBW endurance in a 7mm 2.5-inch form factor. It exists to replace hard drives or refresh older SATA-only PCs at low cost. Best used as a boot drive, a game library, and general-purpose storage; avoid heavy sustained-write scratch workloads. Notable: a DRAM-less controller design that lowers cost at the expense of sustained writes. As of 2026 it is not discontinued and remains listed on Crucial’s site.
- budget upgrade
- boot drive
- game library
- mass storage
Product highlights
- Boot up faster. Load files quicker. Improve overall system responsiveness
- 300% faster than a typical hard drive
- Improves battery life because it’s 45x more energy efficient than a typical hard drive
- Micron 3D NAND – advancing the world's memory and storage technology for 40 years
- Crucial 3-year limited warranty
Specifications
- Capacity
- 1 TB
- Type
- SSD
- Form factor
- M.2
- Hardware Interface
- SATA
- Data Transfer Rate
- 600 MB
- Read speed
- 540 MB/s
- Tdp
- 4 W
