Name: 960GB Micron M500 2.5-inch 9.5mm SATA 6.0Gb/s Solid-State Drive
Brand: Crucial
SKU: CRTCT960M500S7M
Rating: 4.86 (14 reviews)

960GB Crucial M500

We're sorry, but this item is no longer for sale. However, there may be more Internal Hard Drives & SSDs items available.

Consistently Fast Speeds

Includes top-level hardware encryption technology
Advanced controller technology and Micron custom firmware
Extensive quality and reliability testing built into every drive
Compatible with PC and Mac® systems
Crucial 3 Year Limited Warranty

Reviews (14)

Overview
Includes
Specs
Compatibility
Videos
Reviews

scroll for more options >

Dramatically faster than a hard drive, the Crucial / Micron® M500 SSD isn't just a storage upgrade - it's a complete system transformation. Designed to keep your system up to speed with today's multitasking demands that often require instant and simultaneous use of apps, websites, downloads, work files and more, the Crucial / Micron M500 delivers nearly instant boot times, powerful data transfer speeds, increased multitasking capability, and rock-solid reliability - all at an affordable price. The Crucial / Micron M500 also includes top-level encryption technology to keep your data safe and is available in capacities up to terabyte-class. Built on proven quality, the Crucial / Micron M500 SSD has passed hundreds of SSD quality tests and over a thousand hours of prerelease validation testing. Don't settle for anything less.

Micron Quality

As a brand of Micron, one of the largest NAND manufacturers in the world, Crucial SSDs are designed and developed in-house with the latest technology. This means four things: hundreds of SSD qualification tests, over a thousand hours of prerelease validation testing, 1.5 billion dollars invested in R&D, and more than 30 years of industry expertise.

Adaptive Thermal Protection

Greater thermal management enables the Crucial / Micron M500 to work with the host computer to dynamically adjust power consumption based on usage demands, which helps address the cooling challenges of ultra-small, thermally constrained systems.

Hardware Data Encryption

The Crucial / Micron M500 SSD offers top-level hardware-based encryption, enabling enhanced data security. Our AES 256-bit hardware encryption engine and TCG Opal 2.0 compliant firmware allow the drive to operate at full speed without the performance loss that's typically found in drives that use software-based encryption technology.

Includes

(1) Solid-state Drive
Crucial 3 Year Limited Warranty

Specs

Capacity

960 GB

Formatted Capacity

894GiB

Drive Format

Unformatted (Instructions on formatting here)

NAND Flash Components

Micron 20 nm Multi-Level Cell (MLC) 3D NAND Flash

S.M.A.R.T. Attributes

Standard attributes supported

Form Factor

2.5-inch 7mm

Drive Interface

SATA 6.0 Gb/s

Random 4K Read

Up to 80,000 IOPS

Random 4K Write

Up to 80,000 IOPS

Sequential Read (Max)

Up to 500 MB/s

Sequential Write (Max)

Up to 400 MB/s

Read Latency (Max)

85 µs

Write Latency (Max)

85 µs

Average Access Time

<0.1 ms

Nonrecoverable Read Errors

1 per 10¹⁷ bits read

MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures)

1,200,000 hours

Endurance

72TB total bytes written (TBW), equal to 40 GB per day for 5 years

Read Mode (Max)

Up to 0.16 Watts

Write Mode (Max)

Up to 0.16 Watts

Seek Mode (Max)

Up to 0.16 Watts

Idle Mode (Max)

Up to 0.085 Watts

Dimensions

Height: 0.7 cm (0.3 in)
Length: 10.0 cm (3.9 in)
Width: 7.0 cm (2.8 in)

Weight

75.0 g (0.17 lbs)

RoHS Compliant

Ambient Temperature

Operating: 32°F to 158°F (0°C to 70°C)
Non-Operating: -40°F to 185°F (-40°C to 85°C)

Altitude

Operating: -304.8 m to 3,048.0 m (-1,000 ft to 10,000 ft)
Non-Operating: -304.8 m to 12,192.0 m (-1,000 ft to 40,000 ft)

Humidity

Operating: 8% to 90% non-condensing
Non-Operating: 8% to 90% non-condensing

Shock

Operating: 1500 G max at 1 ms
Non-Operating: 1500 G max at 1 ms

Idle (Typical)

0.0 bels

Seek (Typical)

0.0 bels

Compatibility & Installation Videos

MacBook Pro

MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012)

Mid 2012

Model ID: MacBookPro9,2

2.5GHz Core i5 & 2.9GHz Core i7