Crucial T500 PCIe Gen4 NVMe SSD with Heatsink 4TB

The Crucial T500 4TB is a high-capacity PCIe Gen4 x4 NVMe SSD built on Micron's proprietary 232-layer TLC NAND flash technology, leveraging Micron's vertically integrated manufacturing to deliver consistent performance at scale. The drive employs a high-performance NVMe controller paired with a Dynamic Write Acceleration layer that uses SLC caching to sustain sequential write speeds even under prolonged heavy workloads. The included low-profile aluminum heatsink dissipates thermal load generated during sustained I/O operations, preventing throttling in thermally constrained chassis such as compact workstations and high-density storage arrays.

With sequential read speeds reaching up to 7,400 MB/s and sequential write speeds up to 7,000 MB/s, the T500 4TB targets professional content creation pipelines, data analytics staging environments, and software development infrastructures where large dataset throughput and low latency are critical. The M.2 2280 form factor ensures broad compatibility across modern workstation motherboards, NUC-class systems, and compatible server expansion slots via M.2 carrier adapters. The drive's 4TB capacity addresses use cases where prior Gen4 offerings were capacity-limited, reducing the need for multi-drive arrays in single-slot configurations.

Crucial rates the T500 4TB for 1,400 TBW (terabytes written) endurance, making it suitable for write-intensive professional environments including video editing scratch disks, virtual machine storage, and local AI inference model repositories. The drive supports hardware-based encryption via AES 256-bit and TCG Opal 2.0, enabling enterprise security compliance without software overhead. NVMe 1.4 protocol support ensures compatibility with modern NVMe management utilities and power management states including NVMe Power Management (NPM) for deployment in power-conscious professional builds.

Ideal for

• High-resolution video editing and color grading workstations requiring fast scratch disk I/O for 4K/8K RAW media workflows
• AI and machine learning inference nodes needing rapid local model loading and dataset staging with ample capacity
• Software development build servers where fast compile times and large source tree storage benefit from Gen4 throughput
• Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) client nodes and local hypervisor datastores for single-machine multi-VM deployments
• Digital forensics and data processing workstations requiring high-capacity encrypted local storage with TCG Opal 2.0 compliance
• Professional CAD and simulation workstations handling large project assemblies and simulation output data requiring low-latency random I/O

Technical specifications

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