As if they had matched it up, Samsung and Crucial will both present new series of SATA SSDs this month. It's no secret that Samsung has been working on a 860 EVO and 860 Pro. The Crucial MX500 recently arrived in the Hardware.Info test lab and in this article you can read all about it.

The most important component of the recipe used by Crucial for the MX500 is a new generation of 3D NAND, which, in the case of Crucial, of course comes from the factories of parent company Micron. This new flash memory consists of 64 layers, whereas the MX300 still used 32-layer NAND. As more layers of memory cells are stacked, the density increases, resulting in lower production costs and more storage capacity on the same surface area.