Solid state drives have become staples for most systems, even consoles. Whether you have a laptop a few years old that you want to give new life to, or if you are going to build a new PC, we bring you two very interesting options. These two 1TB Crucial SSD, now they are with up to 36% discount.
We have first one Crucial BX500 1TB 2.5-inch format and based on the SATA interface. Then we have the Crucial P5 Plus 1TB which is of M.2 format and which is based on the PCIe 4.0 interface. Two excellent storage units that can cover all your needs.
Crucial BX500 1TB SATA
Although this type of storage unit is falling into disuse, it still has a lot to say. Especially in laptops with a few years these units are excellent for their great performance/price ratio. We can improve the performance of an old laptop and continue using it without major problems.
The problem of thisand Crucial BX500just like any 2.5-inch hard drive, is in the SATA interface. Said connection port was released more than a decade ago and has not received any improvements. It is noticeably slower than the M.2 interface, which offers better read and write speeds.
Crucial’s 1TB drive gives us read speeds of up to 540MB/s and write speeds of up to 500MB/s. Although they are noticeably slower than M.2 speeds, they are faster than SATA HDDs. So, if we change the mechanical hard drive of our laptop for this unit, we will notice a great performance improvement.
An excellent option to revive an old laptop and even to build a new system. The truth is that we will not notice much difference in loading times using a SATA SSD than a more modern M.2 format.
Crucial P5 Plus 1TB M.2 PCIe 4.0
If you are building a new gaming PC, this storage unit is perfect. Fortunately, the price of these drives has stabilized and fallen to the level of PCIe 3.0-based drives. We will notice with this unit excellent load times in Windows and gamesalthough these units have a significant thermal problem.
We have to this unit Crucial P5 Plus 1TB capacity is based on the PCIe 4.0 interface. This type of M.2 format units offer excellent performance and features to users. This unit offers us a Read speed up to 6600MB/s and write speed up to 5000MB/s.
As we have mentioned, this type of unit suffers from major temperature problems. Mid-range and high-end motherboards already usually incorporate passive heatsinks for these types of units. If we do not have this type of heatsink, we should acquire one independently. The problem is that, to protect itself from the increase in temperature, it significantly reduces performance, which is logical.
It is possibly one of the best units on the market in terms of quality/price ratio. Also, note that Crucial is the trademark of Micron, one of the largest memory chip manufacturers in the world.
