SSD vs HDD for Gaming
What’s the best storage drive for gaming? Check out our helpful comparison guide of SSD vs HDD for gaming written by storage experts at Crucial.
Read moreCrucial® T500 Gen4 SSD with heatsink
Battle
better.
better.
Elevate your PS5 play with the
Crucial T500 Gen4 SSD — your
perfect in-game ally
Crucial T500 PCIe Gen4 NVMe SSD with heatsink
Fuel your system performance with the Crucial® T500 Gen4 NVMe® SSD. Experience faster gaming – perfect for PS5™ upgrades. Amp up your creative potential with solid state storage that moves as fast as you need it to. Heavy tasks are no problem with better performance to power efficiency, and our heatsink gives you quiet heat dissipation in a sleek design.
Fast:
Up to 7,400/7,000MB/s sequential reads/writes2
Spacious:
1TB and 2TB3
Generation:
PCIe® 4.0 NVMe M.2 2280 SSD
Innovation:
The world’s first 232-layer TLC NAND engineered by Micron
Warranty:
5-year limited8
Heatsink:
Heatsink version is easy to install in your PlayStation® 5 (non-heatsink option also available)
Quick and easy install
Crucial’s online tutorials, how-to guides, videos and free Acronis® True Image cloning software help you install your SSD, set it as your boot drive and migrate your data.
Get one month of Adobe® Creative Cloud All Apps plan on us when you purchase and register the Crucial® T500 SSD10
- Gaming speed claims based on Micron test results measuring Forspoken Benchmark, Call of Duty® and Valorant® bootup times of the Crucial T500 and other Gen4 SSDs. Your performance may vary.
- Typical I/O performance as measured using CrystalDiskMark® with default settings for NVMe SSDs and write cache enabled. Windows 11 Core isolation disabled for performance measurement. Fresh out-of-box (FOB) state is assumed. For performance measurement purposes, the SSD may be restored to FOB state using the secure erase command. System variations will affect measured results.
- Some of the storage capacity is used for formatting and other purposes and is not available for data storage. 1GB equals 1 billion bytes. Not all capacities available at initial launch.
- Power-to-performance comparison measured internally between Crucial P5 Plus and T500 PCIe® 4.0 NVMe SSDs. Your performance may vary.
- Calculated by comparing T500’s sequential reads of 7,400MB/s to the previous generation’s (P5 Plus) speeds of 6,600MB/s, or to the SATA’s (MX500) speed of 560MB/s. Actual performance may vary.
- Compared to Gen4 SSD performance without DirectStorage, based on Micron test results with supported GPU that uses GPU decompression.
- Faster performance with content creation apps based on internal test results measuring SPECwpc benchmark scores comparing the Crucial T500 to other Gen4 SSDs. Your performance may vary.
- Warranty valid for five years from the original date of purchase or before writing the maximum total bytes written (TBW) as published in the product datasheet and as measured in the product’s SMART data, whichever comes first
- See https://www.playstation.com/en-us/support/hardware/ps5-install-m2-ssd/ for specs and installation instructions.
- One-month complimentary Adobe® Creative Cloud personal All Apps plan available with eligible Crucial SSD purchase. Adobe Creative Cloud ID and Crucial product registration required for redemption. Eligible Crucial T500 SSDs: CT500T500SSD8, CT1000T500SSD8, CT2000T500SSD8, CT1000T500SSD5, CT2000T500SSD5 must be purchased between October 17, 2023 and December 31, 2024. Offer limited to one redemption per eligible Crucial SSD purchase and registration; up to two per Adobe Creative Cloud user account, subject to acceptance of applicable Terms of Use, while activation code supplies last. Additional terms and conditions may apply. Micron Technology reserves the right to change or discontinue this offer at any time without notice.