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Crucial will soon announce its ssd bx500, mysterious successor to the bx300

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Crucial, well-known brand of SSDs and RAM, has begun to display information about what will be its next announcement: the BX500 SSD that, just like its predecessor, will have the difficult task of beating Samsung and other competitors.

Crucial BX500: a must-have upgrade when the BX300 no longer stands out

The brand has announced on its website that this BX500 will be available soon, while on its German website it allows you to subscribe to a newsletter where they will report its launch. The images show a 2.5-inch SATA SSD with a renewed design compared to what is normally seen in Crucial.

The BX500 already appears in the list of supported SSDs in the Crucial Storage Executive tool. In addition to that, the Chinese website of Crucial gives a little more information about it, but practically the only important thing that is extracted is that it will continue to have a 3-year warranty.

Check out our review of the Crucial BX300 and the Samsung 860 EVO

It lacks speculating, especially, with the type of memories used. It is most likely that they will remain with MLC or jump directly to the QLC, and the latter seems very possible since the main marketing point of the new SSD will be its low price.

Its predecessor, the Crucial BX300

Let's talk about its predecessor, the BX300. In a market dominated by Samsung, this SSD was an excellent move. Crucial took a 'pause' in the battle for NAND density and returned to using excellent reliability and performance 3D MLC memory. They got an SSD that could compete from you to you with the Samsung 850 EVO, and that in fact had numerous that put it at a lower price than said SSD.

However, Samsung also counterattacked with the 860 EVO that currently maintains the same price as the BX300 had during, and the current situation is that a 240GB BX300 costs almost the same as a 250GB 970 EVO NVMe. so it was necessary to see Crucial's counterattack. What do you think the new SSD will be like? We will inform you as soon as it is released to the market.

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