With the Crucial Storage Executive Tool you can adjust the over provisioning area as mentioned before and thus determine yourself how high you want to set the SSD durability vs. The usable capacity of the Crucial MX500 is 1863.01 GB.

With the 2000GB Crucial drive a high sequential read and write speed could be achieved in the AHCI. For example, the benchmark program simulates a typical program start. By the way, 4K means that small 4K blocks are read or written and with 4K 64Thrd this is distributed to 64 threads at the same time. The AS SSD benchmark values provide a very good indication of the maximum possible read and write speed, the speed for smaller files and their respective access time. The SSD drive speed was examined and compared with the following benchmark software: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate Edition and Windows 10 Enterprise Edition 64-bit are currently used as operating systems. The test results for SATA3 drives will be compared with an ASRock 890GX Extreme3 motherboard and the test results for mSATA and M.2 modules will be done with an ASRock Z270 Taichi motherboard.

Let us now turn to the benchmark results.

Average crystal disk mark scores