Coming off our review of the 2TB BX500, we switch gears to the flagship MX series with the fourth generation MX500. The MX500 has been the flagship SATA solution for Crucial for several years, and in that time, the price has come down considerably. That said, when compared to the BX500 series, the MX offers an entirely different build starting with a Silicon Motion 2258 and hefty DRAM cache.

This is paired with Micron's 64Layer TLC NAND, but with a much larger 512Gbit die for the 2TB capacity. This is accompanied by a 700TB TBW endurance rating and 1.8 million-hour MTBF. As with many modern SATA solutions, the MX500 taps the top of 6Gbps mountain at 560 MB/s read 510 MB/s write. Random performance is rated at 95K read 90K write.