This drive sees the debut of Micron’s 64-layer 3D NAND, up from the 32-layer NAND of the MX300, but there’s still no NVMe option and this SATA version still isn’t an all-out performance model. However, while the picture doesn’t appear to have changed much, dig a little deeper and the MX500 shows it has a lot more going for it.
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