Storage
Crucial T500 2TB NVMe SSD
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Every drive is quick while it is empty. The difference shows at eighty per cent full, halfway through a large copy, once the fast write cache has been spent and the drive has to work against the flash itself. The T500 carries a full DRAM cache and two terabytes to spread the work across, so it stays predictable in the state a drive actually lives in — most of the way full, most of the time. That is the useful kind of fast.
Key Specs
Capacity — 2TB
Interface — PCIe 4.0 NVMe
Form factor — M.2 2280
Cache — Full DRAM cache on board
Best for — The all-round build drive
Warranty — Full manufacturer warranty
What It Pairs With
Any current AM5 or Intel board with a free M.2 2280 slot, as the one drive the machine boots from and lives on. It suits a build that gets used rather than benchmarked: a large game library, a photo collection and project folders all on one volume, with no thought given to where anything lands. Fit it under the board’s own M.2 heatsink if there is one — not required at this tier, but it costs nothing and keeps temperatures flat through a long copy.
Who This Isn’t For
A machine whose day is ingesting very large files — card after card of footage, disk images, multi-hundred-gigabyte transfers back to back. That work is bound by sustained sequential throughput rather than by the everyday responsiveness this drive is built around, so tell us if it describes your day and we will plan the whole storage setup instead of just this slot. It is also more capacity than some builds will ever use, and 2TB you never fill is money sitting still.
Common Questions
What does the DRAM cache actually do?
It holds the map of where your data physically sits on the flash. A drive without one borrows a slice of system memory for the same job, which is fine for reading and less good when a lot is being written at once. On board, that map stays instant and performance stays flat under load.
Will it slow down as it fills?
Every SSD does to a degree, because there is less free space to write into. Two terabytes and a full cache push that point a long way out, and in normal use you would have to go looking for it.
Does it need a heatsink?
Not at PCIe 4.0. If the board ships with M.2 covers, use one — it is free and it helps during long transfers. There is no need to buy a cooler separately for this drive.
Send us your motherboard model with the enquiry and we will confirm the slot and whether it shares bandwidth with anything else on the board. Availability confirmed at time of quote.