Crucial M550 M.2 256GB SSD
CT256M550SSD4 | CrucialThis product has been discontinued
One only. The Crucial M550 M.2 solid state drives offers read speeds of up to 550MB/s and write speeds up to 500MB/s. A breakthrough in innovation, it consumes significantly less power, enables your computer to boot up almost immediately, load files and programs almost instantly, accelerate demanding applications, and manage power so that your battery lasts up to 50 minutes longer.
Specifications:
Hot Hardware
"If you’re in the market for a solid state drive, the Crucial M550 series should absolutely be on your short-list of potential candidates." Full review
TweakTown (128GB Version)
"Every drive has a trade off somewhere, but if you need one 128GB drive to do it all, this is it. The M550 is a solid product that does well everywhere." Full review


Specifications:
- Interface: SATA 6Gb/s
- Sustained Sequential Read: 550MB/s
- Sustained Sequential Write: 500MB/s
- Random Read: 90,000 IOPS
- Random Write: 80,000 IOPS
- Form Factor: M.2
- NAND: Micron 20nm MLC NAND
- Controller: Marvell 88SS9189
- Life Expectancy: 1.5 million hours mean time to failure (MTTF)
- Warranty: Limited three year warranty
- Endurance: 72TB total bytes written (TBW), equal to 40GB per day for 5 years
Hot Hardware
"If you’re in the market for a solid state drive, the Crucial M550 series should absolutely be on your short-list of potential candidates." Full review
TweakTown (128GB Version)
"Every drive has a trade off somewhere, but if you need one 128GB drive to do it all, this is it. The M550 is a solid product that does well everywhere." Full review

