All things relating to Micron, a popular storage vendor based in Boise, Idaho, US, and the owner of the Crucial brand.
At the announcement on October 31, 2023, Micron’s latest NVMe solid-state drive (SSD), the Crucial T500, was a bit of a surprise: it’s another PCIe 4.0 NVMe drive. Considering the many PCIe 5.0 counterparts, including Micron’s own Crucial T700 that came out in late May, is this new internal drive …
On the one hand, the Crucial X10 Pro is Micron’s first USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 (20 Gbps) portable SSD—rivaling the SanDisk Extreme Pro or the WD Black P50—and it has everything to live up to its specs. As a matter of fact, it’s the fastest portable SSD for the USB …
Over two years ago, I reviewed the Micron Crucial X6 and thought it was the tiniest portable SSD that’s fast and spacious. I’d sound like a broken record today if you asked me to describe the company’s latest portable SSD, the Crucial X9 Pro. And I’d only be more right. …
Micron’s latest PCIe 4.0 NVMe solid-state drive, the Crucial P5 Plus, is a formidable rival to the Samsung 980 PRO. It delivered excellent performance in my tests and long-term real-world usage, even with an older PCIe 3.0 motherboard. In early 2023, Micron added the heatsink version of the drive. The P5 …
Here’s some exciting news for portable SSD fans. Micron today releases not one but two new drives, the Crucial X9 Pro and Crucial X10 Pro portable SSDs. Update: The in-depth reviews of both drives are now available. They are the upgrades to the company’s existing Crucial X8 and X6 that …
The Crucial T700, officially available today, is Micron’s first PCIe 5.0 NVMe solid-state drive and one of the first on the market. It more than meets the great performance expectations—it is easily the fastest SSD to date. But that comes with a few catches. The new drive is expensive. It …
Micron today announced the availability of its two new NVMe solid-state drives (SSDs) that share the same name, the Crucial P3. Or you can think of them as a single drive with two flavors. What sets them apart are the suffixes Plus Gen 4 and Gen 3. In other words, …
As an answer to Western Digital’s recent move to increase portable SSD capacities to 4TB across the board earlier this year, Micron today announced a significant upgrade of its own. New Crucial X6: Faster speed, double the storage space Indeed, the company unveiled a new version of the Crucial X6 …
Micron’s second entry into portable solid-state drives, the Crucial X6, doesn’t have the same bang as the first, the X8. But it has some novelty of its own. This is one of the tiniest, if not the smallest, 2TB portable storage on the market. (Rumor has that there’ll be even …
Micron’s first try into the realm of portable solid-state drives proved to be a big deal. The Crucial X8 was the fastest USB-based portable SSD I tested 10 months ago. Now, with the release of the 2 TB version, it’s still the one with the fastest read speed on the …
