The Crucial T500 is the evolution of one of the first SSDs I ever went hands-on with, the Crucial P5 Plus. That drive represented a superb entry point into modern storage devices because, with read/write speeds of 6,800MB/s and 5,000MB/s respectively, it offered gamers a chance to reap the benefits of NVME PCIe Gen 4 technology without breaking the bank.
The P5 Plus has sadly been discontinued now, and has had to be removed from our best SSD for PS5 list as the best budget option. The T500 looks to replace it, but after testing it out, it doesn’t fill that same gap in the market. Instead, this is taking aim at the biggest guns of the Gen 4 M.2 arena.
