Crucial

Crucial T500 1TB

PCIe 4.0 x4M.2 2280TLCDRAM cacheHeatsink option

The Crucial T500 1TB costs $215.30 right now, or $0.215/GB. The 4TB is cheaper per gigabyte at $0.163/GB. Stepping up to the 2TB costs $202.20 more. It is rated for 600 TBW, about 330 GB of writes a day for 5 years.

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Crucial T500 1TB NVMe SSD

Where to buy the Crucial T500 1TB

Every in-stock offer we track, cheapest first, across the 2 versions of this drive we list.

  • Amazon
    Heatsink edition · Part CT1000T500SSD5
    $215.30
    Buy
  • Newegg
    Part CT1000T500SSD8
    $227.53
    Buy
  • Amazon
    Part CT1000T500SSD8
    $279.01
    Buy

Price history

Lowest in the last 30 days: $220.00. Lowest in 60 days: $220.00.

$220$224$227Sep 19, 2026Sep 22Sep 25
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Daily lowest price for the Crucial T500 1TB
DateLowest price
Sep 25, 2026$228
Sep 24, 2026$220
Sep 23, 2026$220
Sep 22, 2026$220
Sep 21, 2026$220
Sep 20, 2026$220
Sep 19, 2026$220

Lowest in-stock price each day at Newegg and B&H, across every version of this drive we list (including heatsink editions). Lowest point $220.00 on Sep 19; latest $227.53. Amazon prices appear in the offer list but are not charted.

How SSD and hard drive prices are moving overall

Specifications

Speed (rated)

Sequential read
7,300 MB/s
Sequential write
6,800 MB/s
Random read (4K)
1.15M IOPS
Random write (4K)
1.44M IOPS
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x4

Endurance

Rated writes
600 TBW
Warranty
5 years

That is about 330 GB of writes a day for 5 years. A typical gaming PC writes a small fraction of that.

Drive

Capacity
1TB
Form factor
M.2 2280
NAND type
TLC
Cache
DRAM cache
DRAM size
1 GB

Identity

Part number
CT1000T500SSD8
Other versions
CT1000T500SSD5

Does it fit a PS5?

Yes. It meets Sony's requirements: PCIe Gen4 or faster on four lanes, M.2, and at least 5,500 MB/s. Sony recommends adding a thin heatsink, which the PS5 slot has room for. Every drive that fits.

Quality score

How we score →

Scored for a gaming PC from what the maker publishes: read speed against the level games are built around, capacity (under 1TB loses points), cache type, endurance per terabyte and warranty. Speed above the floor adds almost nothing.

100/ 100 among NVMe SSDsValue 99.1 for the price
High confidence · 100% of specs known

Value weighs the score against the price, compared with other 1TB NVMe SSDs: this drive costs $215.30/TB against a typical $211.30/TB. At a typical price, value equals the score. Cheaper raises it and dearer lowers it, but price counts for less than quality.

Sequential read30/30known
Cache architecture25/25known
Capacity20/20known
Endurance per TB15/15known
Warranty10/10known

A factor we hold no value for scores zero rather than being skipped, so a drive we know little about never outranks a fully documented one. A low score with low confidence means undocumented, not bad. This is a specification index, not a benchmark, and it only compares NVMe SSDs with each other.

See every capacity of the Crucial T500 on one page, or compare it with every other drive on the NVMe SSDs table.

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