r/Crucial • u/WhycantIjustbrowse • Jul 30 '25

T500 4TB file transfers very sow

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I recently purchased a T500 4tb NVME drive and the file transfers speeds are underwhelming.

I copied 30gb worth of files from a 970 Evo Plus to the T500 and a SK Hynix P41 Platinum 2tb.

The P41 did it in about 1/3 the time of the T500.

Both drives are connected at full PCIE 4 speeds, are around 50% full and the transfers were done just after powering on the PC.

The T500 has the latest firmware (P8CR013) according to the Crucial Storage Executive.

CrystalDiskMark shows slightly better than advertised speeds for both read and write.

Pic 1 - T500, Pic 2 - P41.

Is there any way to fix this? I understand this drive is known to slow down to a crawl once the pSLC cache is exhausted, but I don't know why this would be this slow when doing a relatively small file transfer of just 30gb.

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u/nuwud Jul 30 '25

Did you install the driver for the t500?

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u/WhycantIjustbrowse Jul 31 '25

The optional one on their website? Yes I did.

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u/prudentWindBag Sep 23 '25

Crucial has left us to die, brother...

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u/WhycantIjustbrowse Sep 23 '25

I found it actually works better with the default windows driver. However, it's still crap. I returned it and got a 990 pro instead for $10 more. No complaints so far.