Crucial Launches T500 Gen 4 PS5 Ready NVMe SSD

Jakob Aylesbury / 6 months ago

Today Crucial has launched its latest SSD, the T500 Gen 4 NVMe SSD featuring a PS5-compatible heatsink.

Crucial T500 Gen 4 SSD

The new Crucial T500 is a Gen 4 SSD utilising best-in-class technology to achieve fast speeds with great reliability. It leverages Micron’s advanced 232-layer 3D NAND technology with NAND I/O speeds of 2.4 GB/s for improved console and PC performance. The read and write speeds are in the upper bounds of Gen 4 with up to 7,400 MB/s and 7,000 MB/s respectively. Gamers can make use of Microsoft Direct storage with the T500 allowing for games to be loaded up to 16% faster and see reduced CPU utilization.

What Crucial Had To Say

“With growing game libraries and creative applications demanding higher bandwidth, gamers, content creators and professionals don’t just expect the highest performance from their storage, they need it,” said Jonathan Weech, senior director of Micron’s Commercial Product Marketing Group. “By leveraging Micron’s powerful, cutting-edge 232-layer TLC NAND, the Crucial T500 Gen 4 NVMe SSD unleashes system performance while using less power.”

Price and Availability

The Crucial T500 Gen 4 NVMe SSD is available now in 500 GB (non-heatsink), 1 TB and 2 TB capacities (both with the heatsink and without the heatsink) on crucial.com, from leading retail and e-tail stores and commercial resellers worldwide. A 4 TB option will be available in 2024.