After 7 years EOL: the beloved Crucial MX500 SATA SSD is discontinued 265 comments
Crucial has confirmed reports provided to Techtip that the popular MX500 SSD series will be discontinued after seven years. SATA SSDs are no longer available from the manufacturer, but are still sold online.
Crucial confirms: the MX500 is no longer in production
The editorial team received the first indications of the end of the series via Reddit. A user wrote that when a Crucial MX500 was under warranty, he learned from the manufacturer that it was no longer produced. Techtip then asked Crucial and has now received confirmation. The brief release states that this will now create space for new products.
The Crucial MX500 was certainly a great drive. We are making room in the range for new products and look forward to sharing the next new products with you soon.
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MX500 SSDs can no longer be ordered from the Crucial store and some of them are already marked “End of Life” (EOL).
The MX500 is no longer available in the Crucial store
The MX500 series is still available online. This applies to the smallest model in the series with 250 GB from 48 euros up to the 4 TB model from 360 euros. However, the offers available in stock are only numerous for the 500 GB, 1 TB and 2 TB models.
A cheap SATA recommendation for many years
When it launched in December 2017, the Crucial MX500 was the best MX SSD since the MX100 and received the Techconseil recommendation in the form of the 1TB model. Although the performance doesn’t quite match the Samsung Primus 850 Evo (test ), the complete package consisting of an SMI controller and a more durable 3D NAND as well as an extended 5-year warranty at entry-level prices was convincing.
Crucial’s potential to become a new bestseller, as stated by the editorial team, was realized in the following years. To date, more than 50,000 models with 500 GB and 1 TB of storage space have been sold at retailer Mindfactory alone. Almost no other series can do this, but almost no other SSD series has been available on the market for so many years.
Crucial MX500 as bestseller
In October 2021, Crucial followed up with the 4TB model of the MX500 series. However, this was disappointing as the performance was worse than the 1TB model.
Today, SATA hardly plays any role
It’s no surprise that the MX500 series is reaching the end of its life after so many years. However, a successor with SATA is rather unlikely, because M.2 SSDs with PCIe and NVMe have long surpassed this interface. This is also seen in the fact that fewer and fewer SATA ports are installed on motherboards, while the number of M.2 ports continues to increase.
Many SSD manufacturers no longer offer new series with SATA on the market. Among the more than 400 SSD models marketed in 2024 in the price comparison, only 4, or 1%, are equipped with a SATA connection. 296 in turn use M.2 with PCIe and much more performance.
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