Performance
The performance has been tested on the ASUS TUF A15 laptop, which contains the Ryzen 7 4800H processor, 64GB DDR4-3200, and Crucial P5 500GB M.2 SSD with installed Win10 Pro x64. All tests were performed on the Crucial MX500 4 TB SSD.
Let’s begin as usual with the ATTO Disk Benchmark.
Results in the ATTO benchmark are, as usual, a bit lower than expected. We are used to seeing that more often. On the other hand, the performance is still high.
In CrystalDiskMark, our results are much better with maximum sequential bandwidth up to about 540MB/s and maximum write, up to 500MB/s. This is still slightly below the declared maximum bandwidth but already not a bad result.
The bandwidth in random operations is high and actually higher than in previous MX500 reviews. The performance in random operations is even more important as it affects daily work and more demanding applications. The low queue random operations are also critical in games and affect loading time.
Below are some results from PCMark 10. All results are about as high as that of the higher SATA SSD series. It’s hard to count on as high performance as that of previously reviewed P5 Plus SSD, but it’s still much more than can offer popular HDD series.
Results in Anvil’s Storage Utilities are also not bad. We could expect more, but this benchmark barely ever shows results close to the maximum declared values.
In the end, AIDA64 Disk Benchmark results in random read and write operations.
Both read and write results are pretty high for a SATA SSD, and both are not far from each other, achieving about 260-280MB/s average. This is again a respectable result for the MX500 SSD.
The 4 TB version of the MX500 SSD keeps the high quality and performance of the whole line. We can expect to get the same high performance but with more space for daily tasks.
