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About This Product
The Crucial BX500 is a 2TB SATA SSD, offering a cost-effective storage upgrade for older systems or as a secondary drive. Its SATA 6.0 Gb/s interface provides significantly faster boot and application load times compared to traditional hard drives, though it is slower than NVMe SSDs. This drive is suitable for general computing tasks and light gaming, but its DRAM-less design means sustained write performance can degrade under heavy loads, making it less ideal for intensive video editing or large file transfers.
Verdict
“A budget-friendly SATA SSD for general use and older systems needing a capacity upgrade.”
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