Sometimes drives feature DRAM or SLC caches (or use part of your PC RAM) to address some of these concerns. Crucial’s BX500 512GB SSD contains ... system seeing a new 120GB SLC drive.

Our sample arrived with a Core i5-6600 CPU, 16GB HyperX Impact RAM, GeForce GTX 970M graphics, a 120GB SSD and 1TB hard drive which is fairly close to the base specification.