Crucial M500 960GB SSD Review

Desktop Test System

Lenovo W530 - Mobile Workstation

We use two systems for SSD testing. The desktop runs a majority of the tests and the Lenovo W530 runs the notebook power tests as well as the real-world file transfer benchmark.

ATTO Baseline Performance

Version and / or Patch Used: 2.34

ATTO is used by many disk manufacturers to determine the read and write speeds that will be presented to customers.

In ATTO at a queue depth of four we read data at nearly 540MB/s. The write tests topped out at nearly 454MB/s. Both results are well over what Crucial claimed on the product spec sheet.