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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the m500 SSD from crucial now this one's gonna be pretty short because it's another SSD so there's not a whole lot to say about it with respect to like wow that's great cable management and you know the widgets are optimized for the whatever also basically this is using microns latest 20 nanometer flash so if you guys don't know this already micron is crucial parent company it comes with a three year warranty this is the first major iteration that they've made to their SSD lineup since the m4 on the consumer side anyway so the m4 has been an awesome SSD part of what gives me a lot of confidence recommending crucial SSDs is the fact that the m4 was so well supported they found firmware bugs before it ever actually became a problem with people with people's drives that were actually deployed in the field so there was one where the drive would just stop working after X number of hours their lab was still working on QA and testing and found it before it ever became a problem so that kind of stuff is really really really good to see the drive itself is slim so it'll fit in a seven millimeter two and a half inch enclosure or it comes with a spacer on it so you can go ahead and add an extra two millimeters to it so it'll fit in a standard nine millimeter spot I guess you put that on the bottom or the top birds up to you I don't really know oh yeah you put that on on here on the top you got a simple label here you've got some mounting holes you've got there like super like 80s looking packaging I really liked the old packaging for their drives better than this ah this is cool so they've added a couple things though they divided hardware data encryption which is becoming a more important feature basically what that does is it's a BIOS level lock so you have to enter a password just to boot up the computer and have access to the drive that just keeps your data more safe adaptive thermal protection has also been added it so I've got a three year warranty still the thing about crew about crucial drives is that unlike sand force based drives which I mean Intel's using lots of companies are using it is not dependent on the data being compressible so you're able to do up to 500 megabytes per second reads 400 megabytes per second writes and that is regardless of the type of data and this particular drive is good for up to about 80,000 on the high end of the capacity so as drives scaling capacity the performance does tend to go up and that is one of the things that's most exceptional about the m500 it is available in a 960 gig capacity for a price of around 600 dollars making it the most reasonably priced terabyte class drive available now this one right here is 128 gigs so you can get 128 256 512 or this 960 sorry was it 1 sorry 120 240 brainfart there 240 times 2 is 480 alternately I could have done 960 divided by 2 is 480 so 480 or 960 gigs now the pricing scales in sort of a weird fashion with I mean in the past it used to be that the high-capacity drives carried a price premium in terms of dollars per gig over the lower-end ones but with the m500 it actually scales downwards in terms of price per gig as you go to a greater capacity so you can see what crucial is doing here is they're really pushing the add up adoption of SSDs as a high-capacity storage which is extremely exciting so there you go guys if you wanted to drop 600 bucks on an SSD tomorrow it would be pretty hard for me to not recommend the one terabyte m500 you can actually store all your data on it don't forget to subscribe for this tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos