And let's break the ice with the first review of this year with another new SSD series from Crucial. This time we have the MX500 which uses Micron's new 2nd generation 64-layer NAND. This is physically 30% smaller than the first generation which allows the manufacturer to yield more die per wafer, which in turn reduces cost.

Thus the MX500 aims at Samsung's 850 EVO series. At the first initial launch just a month ago, we only had the 1TB model available for purchase but as of today they have released 3 other sizes: 250GB, 500GB and 2TB. In our hands today we have the 500 GB variant.