Add space and speed with the Crucial MX500 1TB SSD on sale for $82

About a month ago we shared a deal on the Crucial MX500 solid state drive that saw it drop to around $85 for a day. It was a price matched by a couple other retailers but one that disappeared soon after. At the time it was one of the best prices we’d seen for the large capacity SSD, but today we’ve got an all-new low for you. At Amazon, the Crucial MX500 1TB SSD has dropped to $81.99. That’s a new low and way better than its regular $100 price. The drive has also been going for around $115 a few times this year, so it’s nice to see it dropping the other way today. Newegg has matched this price.

I think this is a great pickup for an SSD, and there’s a couple of good reasons you might want it. Of course, the biggest reason is that you don’t currently have an SSD. If you’re still playing games from a hard drive or don’t even have a boot SSD for your operating system, you absolutely should grab this one. The price is wonderfully inexpensive and you’ll get an instant boost in loading times.

Another reason to grab this SSD is because you have upgraded already, but you couldn’t really get a whole lot of capacity since SSDs seem to increase in price exponentially the more space you go for. This is a 1TB drive. That’s enough to store your operating system, a bunch of games, a bunch of media like photos and video, and load it all with great speed.

The MX500 has read and write times of 560 MB/s and 510 MB/s respectively. That’s not quite as fast as an M.2 NVMe solid state drive, but it’s definitely not bad compared to a normal hard drive. It also has this Power Loss Immunity feature that preserves your work even if you suddenly lose power. There’s also hardware encryption to secure your data and a 5-year warranty from Crucial.