About this time last year, we were reviewing the Crucial M500 960GB This was the first drive to really put 1 TB of flash storage at a price where consumers could realistically own one. In the past year, Micron released the enterprise-focused M500 under their brand. They are now back with the M500DC that shares its roots with both of those drives.

By using the base architecture of the M500, Micron is able to add enterprise features to a drive that is consistently selling for less than $0.50/GB. Considering the lowest cost enterprise SSDs are close to $1/GB, this gives Micron a lot of room to be price competitive. Micron does not publish pricing for their enterprise SSDs, instead they point you to distributors to get pricing at volume. But, in our conversations, they heavily implied that they would very competitive.